The Quatermass Xperiment

The Quatermass Xperiment changed the face of genre cinema and launched Hammer from a B-picture studio into the majors. Newly remastered for the first time. This screening will be introduced by Robert JE Simpson.

When the British-American Rocket Group sends an experimental manned spacecraft into outer space they soon lose contact and it crash-lands over two days later. But as the scientists force entry to rescue the three-man crew, they find to their horror only one astronaut and two empty space-suits.

Directed by BAFTA winner Val Guest (The Day the Earth Caught Fire, The Abominable Snowman), it stars Oscar nominee Brian Donlevy (Destry Rides Again, The Big Combo) and Richard Wordsworth (The Curse of the Werewolf, The Revenge of Frankenstein).

Witness the cold realism, creeping terror, and groundbreaking storytelling that set the standard for British sci-fi.

Robert JE Simpson is a film historian and broadcaster, host of the CinePunked podcast, and author of Don't Dare See It Alone: Essays on Hammer Films.

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