1957·Science Fiction·1h 25m
7.0
★
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Directed by Val Guest
mind control
monster
scotland yard
meteor
alien life-form
rocket
sequel
black and white
scientist
moon colony
research laboratory
mysterious
invasion of earth
member of parliament
british government
toxic atmosphere
colonial life form
synthetic food
company town
government infiltration
toxic substance
food manufacturing plant
radar scanner
inspection tour
bold
callous
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Cast
Brian Donlevy
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
John Longden
Chief Inspector Lomax
William Franklyn
Dr. Tom Brand
Bryan Forbes
Marsh
Charles Lloyd Pack
Work Camp Manager Dawson
John Van Eyssen
The Plant Tour Guide
Sidney James
Jimmy Hall
Percy Herbert
Paddy Gorman
Michael Ripper
Ernie the Bartender
Edwin Richfield
Peterson
Vera Day
Sheila
Marianne Stone
Miss Beal
Crew
Val Guest
Director
Nigel Kneale
Screenplay
Val Guest
Screenplay
Michael Carreras
Executive Producer
Nigel Kneale
Teleplay
Brian Johnson
Special Effects Assistant
Popular Reviews
14 reviews
dparasol
9.0★ · 01/10/26
Back with Quatermass again! I missed the old bastard. Also ecstatic to see Lomax returning in the cast list.
Cantankerous old men tend to be downers, but there's something about the immense belief Quatermass has in the possibility and ultimate necessity of science that's very can-do. He believes that anything scientists can envision can be done, and intends to do it. But given how things are always happening around Quatermass, it's a thought that's equally horrifying and inspirational.
Pretty early on, don't know what's going on but it's pretty incredible. A conspiracy surrounding a mysterious black project, unusual meteorological readings, bizarre meteorites containing something strange and living.
All-time screen chemistry between Donlevy and Longden, the new Lomax. Starting off this time as friends, but still perfectly at odds as Lomax accuses dear Quatermass of trying to spoil their friendship.
It's a great moment when Hall gets gunned down. Some decent tension from there on out, as well, with Quatermass taking the desperate measure of walking straight into danger. The alien he sees at last is well worth it, and would make for a proper conclusion to any Lovecraft story.
Fortunately for mankind, this is Quatermass, and humanity wins out in the end, with much horror and several big explosions. Quatermass is the greatest of all time.
"Hello? Mister Broadhead, Inspector Lomax, sir. I have someone here you might like to meet. He has some rather curious information about...a certain establishment. Are you dependable sir?" "What?" "Quite dependable. In an hour at the house of commons."
alt. quote: "You know what worries me. How am I going to make a final report about all this?" "What worries me is, how final can it be?"
Cantankerous old men tend to be downers, but there's something about the immense belief Quatermass has in the possibility and ultimate necessity of science that's very can-do. He believes that anything scientists can envision can be done, and intends to do it. But given how things are always happening around Quatermass, it's a thought that's equally horrifying and inspirational.
Pretty early on, don't know what's going on but it's pretty incredible. A conspiracy surrounding a mysterious black project, unusual meteorological readings, bizarre meteorites containing something strange and living.
All-time screen chemistry between Donlevy and Longden, the new Lomax. Starting off this time as friends, but still perfectly at odds as Lomax accuses dear Quatermass of trying to spoil their friendship.
It's a great moment when Hall gets gunned down. Some decent tension from there on out, as well, with Quatermass taking the desperate measure of walking straight into danger. The alien he sees at last is well worth it, and would make for a proper conclusion to any Lovecraft story.
Fortunately for mankind, this is Quatermass, and humanity wins out in the end, with much horror and several big explosions. Quatermass is the greatest of all time.
"Hello? Mister Broadhead, Inspector Lomax, sir. I have someone here you might like to meet. He has some rather curious information about...a certain establishment. Are you dependable sir?" "What?" "Quite dependable. In an hour at the house of commons."
alt. quote: "You know what worries me. How am I going to make a final report about all this?" "What worries me is, how final can it be?"
Back with Quatermass again! I missed the old bastard. Also ecstatic to see Lomax returning in the cast list.
Cantankerous old men tend to be downers, but there's something about the immense belief Quatermass has in the possibility and ultimate necessity of science that's very can-do. He believes that anything scientists can envision can be done, and intends to do it. But given how things are always happening around Quatermass, it's a thought that's equally horrifying and inspirational.
Pretty early on, don't know what's going on but it's pretty incredible. A conspiracy surrounding a mysterious black project, unusual meteorological readings, bizarre meteorites containing something strange and living.
All-time screen chemistry between Donlevy and Longden, the new Lomax. Starting off this time as friends, but still perfectly at odds as Lomax accuses dear Quatermass of trying to spoil their friendship.
It's a great moment when Hall gets gunned down. Some decent tension from there on out, as well, with Quatermass taking the desperate measure of walking straight into danger. The alien he sees at last is well worth it, and would make for a proper conclusion to any Lovecraft story.
Fortunately for mankind, this is Quatermass, and humanity wins out in the end, with much horror and several big explosions. Quatermass is the greatest of all time.
"Hello? Mister Broadhead, Inspector Lomax, sir. I have someone here you might like to meet. He has some rather curious information about...a certain establishment. Are you dependable sir?" "What?" "Quite dependable. In an hour at the house of commons."
alt. quote: "You know what worries me. How am I going to make a final report about all this?" "What worries me is, how final can it be?"
Cantankerous old men tend to be downers, but there's something about the immense belief Quatermass has in the possibility and ultimate necessity of science that's very can-do. He believes that anything scientists can envision can be done, and intends to do it. But given how things are always happening around Quatermass, it's a thought that's equally horrifying and inspirational.
Pretty early on, don't know what's going on but it's pretty incredible. A conspiracy surrounding a mysterious black project, unusual meteorological readings, bizarre meteorites containing something strange and living.
All-time screen chemistry between Donlevy and Longden, the new Lomax. Starting off this time as friends, but still perfectly at odds as Lomax accuses dear Quatermass of trying to spoil their friendship.
It's a great moment when Hall gets gunned down. Some decent tension from there on out, as well, with Quatermass taking the desperate measure of walking straight into danger. The alien he sees at last is well worth it, and would make for a proper conclusion to any Lovecraft story.
Fortunately for mankind, this is Quatermass, and humanity wins out in the end, with much horror and several big explosions. Quatermass is the greatest of all time.
"Hello? Mister Broadhead, Inspector Lomax, sir. I have someone here you might like to meet. He has some rather curious information about...a certain establishment. Are you dependable sir?" "What?" "Quite dependable. In an hour at the house of commons."
alt. quote: "You know what worries me. How am I going to make a final report about all this?" "What worries me is, how final can it be?"
Kraken17
7.0★ · 10/20/25
Octoberween 2025 #20
Definitivamente le tengo cariño a la ci-fi pulp británica.
Esta Quatermass 2 quizá no sea tan redonda como me lo resultaron su predecesora y su sucesora, aunque confieso que el recuerdo que tengo de aquellas dos quizá esté algo magnificado por la nostalgia. Aún así, no hay aquí el mismo nivel de body horror y sentido de emergencia contrarreloj que encontrábamos en The Quatermass Xperiment y tampoco nada del horror existencial que destilaba Quatermass and the Pit. Y desde luego, nada de los toques de horror cósmico que en mayor o menor medida podíamos destilar de aquellas.
Pero lo que si tenemos es una propuesta muy sólida de invasión alienígena en su vertiente de infiltración, con toques a lo Body Snatchers, temas de control mental, terraformación forzosa, algún momento de genuino espeluzno, paranoia y retazos de monster movie en su traca final. Y por supuesto, a nuestro protagonista genio científico con mala gaita favorito. Es muy divertido comparar como una premisa similar hecha en EE.UU. seguramente tendría de héroe a algún militar o policía (o en casos excepcionales algún médico civil pero con retazos de héroe aguerrido). Pero aquí tenemos a Quatermass, genio científico avinagrado en el que se reconocen las semillas de lo que un día serían las encarnaciones más gruñonas de El Doctor en Doctor Who.
Disfrutable, entretenida y resultona. Lo dicho, me parecen más redondas las otras dos pero esta es también una nueva comfort movie.
Definitivamente le tengo cariño a la ci-fi pulp británica.
Esta Quatermass 2 quizá no sea tan redonda como me lo resultaron su predecesora y su sucesora, aunque confieso que el recuerdo que tengo de aquellas dos quizá esté algo magnificado por la nostalgia. Aún así, no hay aquí el mismo nivel de body horror y sentido de emergencia contrarreloj que encontrábamos en The Quatermass Xperiment y tampoco nada del horror existencial que destilaba Quatermass and the Pit. Y desde luego, nada de los toques de horror cósmico que en mayor o menor medida podíamos destilar de aquellas.
Pero lo que si tenemos es una propuesta muy sólida de invasión alienígena en su vertiente de infiltración, con toques a lo Body Snatchers, temas de control mental, terraformación forzosa, algún momento de genuino espeluzno, paranoia y retazos de monster movie en su traca final. Y por supuesto, a nuestro protagonista genio científico con mala gaita favorito. Es muy divertido comparar como una premisa similar hecha en EE.UU. seguramente tendría de héroe a algún militar o policía (o en casos excepcionales algún médico civil pero con retazos de héroe aguerrido). Pero aquí tenemos a Quatermass, genio científico avinagrado en el que se reconocen las semillas de lo que un día serían las encarnaciones más gruñonas de El Doctor en Doctor Who.
Disfrutable, entretenida y resultona. Lo dicho, me parecen más redondas las otras dos pero esta es también una nueva comfort movie.
Octoberween 2025 #20
Definitivamente le tengo cariño a la ci-fi pulp británica.
Esta Quatermass 2 quizá no sea tan redonda como me lo resultaron su predecesora y su sucesora, aunque confieso que el recuerdo que tengo de aquellas dos quizá esté algo magnificado por la nostalgia. Aún así, no hay aquí el mismo nivel de body horror y sentido de emergencia contrarreloj que encontrábamos en The Quatermass Xperiment y tampoco nada del horror existencial que destilaba Quatermass and the Pit. Y desde luego, nada de los toques de horror cósmico que en mayor o menor medida podíamos destilar de aquellas.
Pero lo que si tenemos es una propuesta muy sólida de invasión alienígena en su vertiente de infiltración, con toques a lo Body Snatchers, temas de control mental, terraformación forzosa, algún momento de genuino espeluzno, paranoia y retazos de monster movie en su traca final. Y por supuesto, a nuestro protagonista genio científico con mala gaita favorito. Es muy divertido comparar como una premisa similar hecha en EE.UU. seguramente tendría de héroe a algún militar o policía (o en casos excepcionales algún médico civil pero con retazos de héroe aguerrido). Pero aquí tenemos a Quatermass, genio científico avinagrado en el que se reconocen las semillas de lo que un día serían las encarnaciones más gruñonas de El Doctor en Doctor Who.
Disfrutable, entretenida y resultona. Lo dicho, me parecen más redondas las otras dos pero esta es también una nueva comfort movie.
Definitivamente le tengo cariño a la ci-fi pulp británica.
Esta Quatermass 2 quizá no sea tan redonda como me lo resultaron su predecesora y su sucesora, aunque confieso que el recuerdo que tengo de aquellas dos quizá esté algo magnificado por la nostalgia. Aún así, no hay aquí el mismo nivel de body horror y sentido de emergencia contrarreloj que encontrábamos en The Quatermass Xperiment y tampoco nada del horror existencial que destilaba Quatermass and the Pit. Y desde luego, nada de los toques de horror cósmico que en mayor o menor medida podíamos destilar de aquellas.
Pero lo que si tenemos es una propuesta muy sólida de invasión alienígena en su vertiente de infiltración, con toques a lo Body Snatchers, temas de control mental, terraformación forzosa, algún momento de genuino espeluzno, paranoia y retazos de monster movie en su traca final. Y por supuesto, a nuestro protagonista genio científico con mala gaita favorito. Es muy divertido comparar como una premisa similar hecha en EE.UU. seguramente tendría de héroe a algún militar o policía (o en casos excepcionales algún médico civil pero con retazos de héroe aguerrido). Pero aquí tenemos a Quatermass, genio científico avinagrado en el que se reconocen las semillas de lo que un día serían las encarnaciones más gruñonas de El Doctor en Doctor Who.
Disfrutable, entretenida y resultona. Lo dicho, me parecen más redondas las otras dos pero esta es también una nueva comfort movie.
Eclectic Sorcerer
6.0★ · 05/20/25
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Kieran
6.0★ · 02/10/25
Is the real Mandela effect that I spent ages thinking Quatermass was spelt Quartermass? Or, that I spent ages thinking these were masterpieces?
Is the real Mandela effect that I spent ages thinking Quatermass was spelt Quartermass? Or, that I spent ages thinking these were masterpieces?