Great instalment, Ryan! Love the Quatermass TV shows and the Hammer film versions. One of my late uncles loved to tell the story of how popular the original Quatermass Experiment TV series was in Britain when first screened in the early 50s. He told me that everyone stayed home on Saturday nights to watch every episode, and people were genuinely scared stiff by it!
Daniel Marino has been blowing my mind with his deep knowledge of a wide swath of film history. Really enjoying this enormously informative conversation about the stealth Hammer horror kick-off film. 😉 Loved this. Thanks, Gentlemen.
I saw the poster for this film in the lobby for "coming net week" when I was a kid, and thought not only did it look like a terrible cheap movie, but that US title, THE CREEPING UNKNOWN just sounded so bottom of the barrel I decided to not even bother seeing it. I wish I had though. I loved the film when I saw it on tv some 6=7 years later. United Artists just had no clue how to advertise a film like this. Aside from the awful re-titling of these films, their poster art for almost every SF-related release was cheap, poorly designed and very second rate all around. Donlevy was gret in this and the sequel, far more interesting and dynamic than the rather blah British actors who portrayed Qyatermass in the first 3 iterations of his tales....and I usually preferred British actors in movies. Not these two though. (Btw, I believe there are indications in the early draft shooting script that the rocket group is an international venture. I'll have to dig those out. In that case, the casting of Donlevy would be given some logic background for being involved in this project). This really wsn't a drive-in movie. That type of audience had yet to be built in any major way yet.
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Great instalment, Ryan! Love the Quatermass TV shows and the Hammer film versions. One of my late uncles loved to tell the story of how popular the original Quatermass Experiment TV series was in Britain when first screened in the early 50s. He told me that everyone stayed home on Saturday nights to watch every episode, and people were genuinely scared stiff by it!
Daniel Marino has been blowing my mind with his deep knowledge of a wide swath of film history. Really enjoying this enormously informative conversation about the stealth Hammer horror kick-off film. 😉 Loved this. Thanks, Gentlemen.
Glad you enjoy it! Dan certainly knows his stuff.
The Quatermass Conclusion was produced by Euston Films for Thames Television and it was broadcast on the ITV network in October and November 1979.
the bbc tv serial, or the movie?
ignore that, I was thinking of Quatermass and the Pit ... aka Five Million Years to Earth.
Where do you get the idea that The Beatles created "pop music"?
I saw the poster for this film in the lobby for "coming net week" when I was a kid, and thought not only did it look like a terrible cheap movie, but that US title, THE CREEPING UNKNOWN just sounded so bottom of the barrel I decided to not even bother seeing it. I wish I had though. I loved the film when I saw it on tv some 6=7 years later. United Artists just had no clue how to advertise a film like this. Aside from the awful re-titling of these films, their poster art for almost every SF-related release was cheap, poorly designed and very second rate all around.
Donlevy was gret in this and the sequel, far more interesting and dynamic than the rather blah British actors who portrayed Qyatermass in the first 3 iterations of his tales....and I usually preferred British actors in movies. Not these two though. (Btw, I believe there are indications in the early draft shooting script that the rocket group is an international venture. I'll have to dig those out. In that case, the casting of Donlevy would be given some logic background for being involved in this project).
This really wsn't a drive-in movie. That type of audience had yet to be built in any major way yet.