This was a five out of five star movie!! Nonstop action, avoiding many of the usual silly tropes, and it kept building right to the end!! This was the one Quatermass film I haven't seen, worth the wait!!
@@cjhardsthe moon is fake 🤥 it's a projection to fool the population into thinking space is real and it's not 🚫 the dome over us keeps us alive and a fake ship flying though it would have killed us all...
they don't make films like this anymore!! You don't need cgi just good acting and sid James as a bonus ❤ totally atmospheric movie ❤thank you for the upload xxxx
This is one of my favorite movies from when I was a kid in the early 60's (saw it on TV-I'm 68). I had vague memories of different scenes (the guy coming down the side of the tank all covered in black steaming goo). Decades later, when Internet became a place to find such things, I started on a quest to find this particular movie. I couldn't even remember the name. I finally did trip over it one day and I have enjoyed ever since. Truly a master piece of early sci-fi film making. Thanks to for bringing it so many new people to enjoy.
The first and last time i watched this great Sci Fi movie was around the mid 1960s when i was living in Los Angeles. I'm 66 years old today. Love this movie. Take care.😀
At the risk of sounding pedantic this is Quatermass 2. The Quatermass Experiment was a preceding film and there was no Quatermass Experiment 2 All the Quatermass films were originally made for UK TV and written by Nigel Kneale and they had different casts from the movies. HTH
The scene with broadhead walking down the stairs covered in whatever has been locked in my brain since I saw this movie as a child but couldn't remember the movies name! Didn't remember anything else about the movie at all. It's funny how just a few seconds of a movie can stay with you forever, thanks for posting this movie and solving a mystery for me!
I agree with your sensation . It's the same for me remembering "The Exorcist": the head of the girl turning on the neck whit a rotation of 360°is locked in my brain since the first time I saw this . Really...inexpected. Epic....main appearance in my children's nightmares for many years. Dam'n it...
God, yes, me too... an absolutely horrifying scene...poor Broadhead melting as he descends the stairs, frantically shrieking to Quatermass - "Don't touch me! Don't touch me"... Unforgettable scene that left an indelible "burn" in my psyche.
British sci-fi has always come across as more cerebral than American. When special effects were required they were always well done and on a tight budget. Enemy From Space holds a special position in my top (10) 50's sci-fi flix.
American SciFi many times was mass produced a’la Corman/Bert I Gordon/ Ed Wood on the cheap aiming at the drive in circuit popular with teens and kids British SciFi was aimed at young adults
I still can't figure out how directly after WW2 only the good guys are good shots with a machine gun or any gun. It's like saying the Germans lost the Battle of Britten because they were bad pilots. We just had superior numbers and equipment.
If it's possible to LOVE a horror movie, this is it for me. I first saw this when I was a young teenager all geared up on astronomy and the exciting new mysteries of space travel. It enthralled me then and still does. Unlike so many films of its genre and period, this is so well-crafted. The mystery and drama begin in the first few seconds and are maintained throughout. Great casting, great acting and music so superb that it is unequalled. It still makes me shiver.....
@@kennethrohen5963 I'm either going backwards or never grew up, despite what life has thrown at me. (PS--Tornados--best music ever) WHY GROW UP ANYWAY??
A perfectly good sci-fi thriller for its day, with good writing and acting, and some very good camera work. I saw this twice when I was a little kid, and I've wanted to see it again ever since. Thanks for running it.
! saw it only in 1964, on a double bill with the remake with Jack Lemmon & June Allyson of "It happened in one night". Needless to say, I had to endure this unwanted extra before my favorite ! That's 7 years after its original showing in my country. But I saw it again & again at every rerun in local theaters, until the print was so worn out that they no longer shew it ! I saw later at the same theater "The Quatermass X-periment - The Creeping Unknown" Although a little disappointed by the lack of action in this 1st part, Brian Donlevy once more impressed me as a most outstanding Pr. Quatermass.
"5 Million Years to Earth" scared the hell out of me in the sixties when I first saw it. I still has its creepy moments even now. As an aside, there is a quote in that one that describes perfectly the reaction to abrupt climate change now...."The will to survive is an odd phenomenon. Roney, if we found out our own world was doomed, say by climatic changes, what would we do about it?" Roney: "Nothing, just go on squabbling like usual."
This was better than I expected.....a good sci-fi in B&W with veteran actor Brian D., who had a "Dangerous Assignment" with this one......kind of reminded me of the original Invaders From Mars, which came after this. Good One.
Quick note: INVADERS FROM MARS was made several years prior to this film (and was actually written in the late 40's. This film is a favorite. Always nice to hear when it is discovered or re-discovered by people who might appreciate older black and white SF films!
QUATERMASS ,the name alone fills me with fear and trepidation .It has an unearthly quality to it .A sense of HORROR .A suggestion of EVIL .AAAAAARG!!!!
It's actually a remake. The original was a TV series. Same with the other 2 movies. Sadly, this one was lost apart from a couple of episodes, but the others are intact. The TV shows had a much darker feel than the movies. There was a remake of the original Quatermass series some time in the 2010s, a live event that played over 3 nights that starred Jason Flemyng as Quatermass and David Tennant as the doctor - NOT Dr. Who, but the one looking after the alien-infested astronaut. All of the original Quatermass TV series were live productions, like most UK TV back then.
@@TheDavidPoole Yes I've heard of the TV series. This is a sequel to The Quatermass Experiment is what I meant. Have you see the 70s TV series with Sir John Mills?
@@redditanonymous-p9wdarn I hate replying to a post and it disappears into the ether! I'll try again. Yes, it was on when I was a kid. Don't remember too much about it other than Ringstone round, the gaslands style range rover, and the "spillings" in the sky. It did creep me out and I'd love to see it again! If you like Nigel Kneales style, I'd recommend you look up "The Stone Tape" it's another Kneale penned British TV show from around '72 I think. It's a good sci-fi horror. It's typical of its time, like the old Dr.Who. shows. Im sure he was a fan of Lovecraft. The only thing that i feel has captured his (Kneales) style in recent years are the Torchwood stories about the Aliens using kids as drugs and the one where people stopped dying. They were the best ones in the series in my view. You've set me on a mission now to search out the 70s Quatermass show now 😀👍 Cheers!
One of the Great British SyFy classics, that had all the nail biting horror and edge of your seat suspense of a modern cult film. As kids, we used to huddle under bed cover and watch the scariest shows on TV, with all the house lights turned out--for the extra effect. One time, one of our parent sneaked up on us and gave a loud monster growl that sent us flying (covers and all). We all rolled when we found out who it was and what we looked like screaming in terror--as we ran for our lives.
I much prefer this to the original Quatermass film as I think this one holds up better, but out of the three Hammer Quatermass films Quatermass and the Pit is my all time favourite.Thanks for posting.
@@mikehipperson I only meant out of the three films. The Tv version of Quatermass and the pit is in a world of its own and is the best of the Tv series. With a perfectly cast Quatermass.
As I’ve said before, these old movies are thrilling with intrigue and mayhem. For that time and even now they leave newer movies in their dust. The British sure new how to create a sense of doom. Love this and a lot of other great movies. 👏😁🇦🇺
I loved the movie, “5 Million Years to Earth,” called “Quatermass and the Pit” in England…great plot, and still can thrill! This was a really good movie! Thanks you!
One of my favourite films. If you are prepared to watch it more than twice a good film. It was shown UK tv about Christmas 1973 or 74. Stuck in my mind as a teen.
My mum would sometimes bring up a movie where they stuffed bodies in pipes. Now I've found it! A couple of years too late but she said it was really scary so I'm going to watch it in memory of her.
What a TERRIFIC FILM! Love all of the QUATERMASS versions - BUT THIS is THE BEST of ALL!!!!!!! Hand it to the BRITS to always make the best SCI-FI FILMS and TV! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
I saw this at a drive-in movie with my parents when I was a young, impressionable child, probably 5or 6 years old. It scared the bejesus out of me for years and it made it hard for me to go to sleep. I was terribly afraid one of those rock things would crash through my roof and infect me! I suffered for years because of this movie and couldn’t remember the name of it. Here I am in my 70’s looking at old sci-fi movies and here it is-Quatermas2. After 65 years I finally found the source of my nightmares for years, and it’s not all that scary as I watch it as an adult. 😅
I was but a lad when this came out. It never made it to the Saturday Nights at the Cheapies TV shows in the states so, this is the first time I have seen it. I like it! It was non-stop and reasonably well acted. Maybe the fact that no one could hit anything with machine guns was a bit off but, it was still well done. It is now 0300 and time for bed! Thank you for keeping me up for much longer than normal. LOL
Awesome…Wow, old SciFi’s…been years since I’ve seen these….lol… one of those which gave me nightmares as a kid was the Outer Limits, couldn’t sleep for many nights without waking up in the middle of the night ….☹️😥
I’ve known about this film for years but gave up trying to find it and suddenly there it was. It did not disappoint. There were the usual problems of why invade a planet where you can’t breathe and killing the queen kills all the drones. But I really like the giant slime molds
In the TV series it's explicitly stated that the aliens eventually intend to alter Earth's atmosphere, ruling it by proxy until that time. And they are a group organism, there is no queen as such. Again the Tv series shows that only the aliens of Earth die (and not all of them because there are other plants under contruction), but for a group organism, it's pretty much the equivalent of losing a fingernail.
@@richardgregory3684 interestingly, that's what the military-run "remote viewers" in Jim Marrs' 1997 "The Alien Agenda" reported "seeing" about the different species of "aliens", not that the latter are a bunch of cells like in the movie, but that the beings they "view" share a collective mind. I cannot recommend you this (non-fiction) book too much.
It's 1957 and there is no budget. But never mind, it all turns out well in the end. Overly dramatic backing music also overly loud, gives this film the right character for it's age. It was an enjoyable romp into a world long gone.
This is a very High Class Sci FI Film completely believeable and very well made noted for its first use of the famous Land Rover 4WD and a very scary film and with these UFO;s flying about recorded and filmed too a very pertinent subject today/
Classic , the scene when they hear the scream through the pipes only to find out that those men had been stuffed in to block them always stuck with me as a kid ..... scary .
Only ever saw Brian Donlevey as Quatermas until a few weeks ago. Here, on UA-cam he played a romantic part, I forget the film but he can act. So different a character.
I just got into these. The guy Quatermass or the character is a real A hole in the first one. He is better here and more negotiable with the British scientists. The third one is the best
I completely agree. I loved these as a kid and then watched the first one again last week and when he was preventing the astronaut from getting proper medical attention, just so that he could find out what happened on the flight, i was thinking ''he's such an ass''.
What a freaking surprize, with no special cgi effects. Put this up on your big screen. Never cared for Brian Dunleavy, but the short punk made this believable
I saw the Creeping Unknown on tv in the 60s (Qautermass Experiment 1). I’m old now and it still scares me! Saturday nights were king in the 60s for these great movies! I was in the NYC market area.
If you can try to find the TV broadcast of "Quatermass and the Pit". Andre Morell stars as Quatermass in what was probably the most scarey Sci-Fi series for its time with what we're superb effects on a very limited budget. As a lad at the time I spent a lot of time peeking at the telly from behind the sofa! Do not, under any circumstances, mistake it for the colour movie of the same name. It's crap compared to the TV version!
I've tried, believe me, but I think it has been lost. I remember seeing an episode at a friend's house as a kid and it was terrifying. Then the grown-ups turned the TV off and said it was too scary for us children (we were children back then. 'Kids' was an insult)..
This is a good film, although "Quatermass & The Pit" (aka "Five Million Years to Earth") with Andrew Keir as Quatermass is still the definitive Quatermass film for me.
There's sort of a remake of this movie out there too. In fact, these Quatermass stories have been redone a dozen different ways, movies and remakes, TV movies, and series. It's become sort of a classic sci-fi story.
The quatermass films were actually reworked versions of Nigel Kneale's TV series that were popular in the UK in the black and white TV era. Quatermass' companion/assistant is Brian Forbes, husband of Nanette Newman, whom he directed in the original version of The Stepford Wives.
Like Doctor Who, Bernard Quatermass is a character who can be played by multiple actors, each with their own unique style. I wish he'd be brought back - with minimal effects and relying on quality plots and scripts like the original three moves.
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 True. Today Bernard Quatermass would be a Somalian ftm Trans Man with outspoken hatred for White men and British Colonialism...
You're talking Donlevy here, Sistor! "You have your assignment. Good luck!" Every week in "Dangerous Assignment" he was advised-so while just missing the knife thrown at him. 1951 TV series.
Every time I hear ‘Mars, Bringer of War’ by Gustav Holst, I immediately think of and remember watching the original brilliant and terrorising 1950s TV version of The Quatermass Experiment ll, as a very young boy!
It's not "Quatermass Experiment II"; it's "Quatermass 2". While this one is good, "Quatermass and the Pit" is the best in the series and it is in color.
Je viens de regarder le film version sous-titré, du début à la fin, je vais m'abonner. La belle qualité du cinéma anglais dans tout son art. Merci.❤❤❤❤❤❤.
@JZ's BFF Hold on! Mine from 1945 is unspoiled still! Why, I LIVE in the Fifties and savor every moment! All that is new and digital ONLY goes to support all of that, sort of as my slave. (Although my appliances are mostly from the pre-planned obsolescence Twenties, you know stuff that never ever wears out -- a century old and VALUE still comes flowing from it! Try THAT now.) Nope! Unspoiled still exists; you just have to look hard for it.
Most of films made 50s early 60s were combinations of Americans and UKs finest. Why are Americans , lead actors each flick ?. They paid the bills !. Quartermaster is amongst the best. The original , UFO in London underground. Thanks enthusiasts. Dave
Brian Donlevy should have won a award for his performance as Quatermass. Excellent acting throughout by all. A real Gem of a Sci-fi film. Bravo!
According to author Nigel Kneale, Donlevy who had a serious drinking problem, was ‘very drunk indeed’ during filming.
@LeechwelGarden
He may have meant Syd James. He never let a camera or crew get between him and a drink.
Carry on up the aliens..😆
I agree but compare this with 'Forbidden Planet' produced maybe a year later. To be fair, they've never surpassed that film to date.
@@LeechwelGarden€Ven better!!
Brian Donlevy in The Big Combo my fav...
This was a five out of five star movie!! Nonstop action, avoiding many of the usual silly tropes, and it kept building right to the end!! This was the one Quatermass film I haven't seen, worth the wait!!
I saw it in 1964 at a rerun theater
& went back to see it again and again at
other rerun theaters until the reel reeled its last snap !
I'd love to see the original 1950's BBC TV series "Quatermass" but my research tells me that copies no longer exist. That really was a frightener...
@@lefranglais1155destroyed along with MOONLANDINGS! Lol
@@cjhardsthe moon is fake 🤥 it's a projection to fool the population into thinking space is real and it's not 🚫 the dome over us keeps us alive and a fake ship flying though it would have killed us all...
Non stop action other than constant non stop ads
they don't make films like this anymore!! You don't need cgi just good acting and sid James as a bonus ❤ totally atmospheric movie ❤thank you for the upload xxxx
This is one of my favorite movies from when I was a kid in the early 60's (saw it on TV-I'm 68). I had vague memories of different scenes (the guy coming down the side of the tank all covered in black steaming goo). Decades later, when Internet became a place to find such things, I started on a quest to find this particular movie. I couldn't even remember the name. I finally did trip over it one day and I have enjoyed ever since. Truly a master piece of early sci-fi film making. Thanks to for bringing it so many new people to enjoy.
One i havent seen yet. I seen them all!
The pit was my fav.
The first and last time i watched this great Sci Fi movie was around the mid 1960s when i was living in Los Angeles. I'm 66 years old today. Love this movie. Take care.😀
This is a great though underrated film. Thank you for posting. Late evening viewing sorted for tonight!!
At the risk of sounding pedantic this is Quatermass 2. The Quatermass Experiment was a preceding film and there was no Quatermass Experiment 2 All the Quatermass films were originally made for UK TV and written by Nigel Kneale and they had different casts from the movies. HTH
The scene with broadhead walking down the stairs covered in whatever has been locked in my brain since I saw this movie as a child but couldn't remember the movies name! Didn't remember anything else about the movie at all. It's funny how just a few seconds of a movie can stay with you forever, thanks for posting this movie and solving a mystery for me!
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I agree with your sensation . It's the same for me remembering "The Exorcist": the head of the girl turning on the neck whit a rotation of 360°is locked in my brain since the first time I saw this . Really...inexpected. Epic....main appearance in my children's nightmares for many years. Dam'n it...
@@ildona8813 puts you off pea soup !
If not for these movies there would likely be no Dr Who!
BTW if you can do it can you post the Cushing Dr Who movies?????
God, yes, me too... an absolutely horrifying scene...poor Broadhead melting as he descends the stairs, frantically shrieking to Quatermass - "Don't touch me! Don't touch me"... Unforgettable scene that left an indelible "burn" in my psyche.
British sci-fi has always come across as more cerebral than American. When special effects were required they were always well done and on a tight budget. Enemy From Space holds a special position in my top (10) 50's sci-fi flix.
100%.
Old British sci-fi sucked, even the Soviet Union made better sci-fi movies back in the day.
Hardly.
American SciFi many times was mass produced a’la Corman/Bert I Gordon/ Ed Wood on the cheap aiming at the drive in circuit popular with teens and kids British SciFi was aimed at young adults
I still can't figure out how directly after WW2 only the good guys are good shots with a machine gun or any gun. It's like saying the Germans lost the Battle of Britten because they were bad pilots. We just had superior numbers and equipment.
.......................WOW!!! NOW, THAT's the STUFF!!! MORE!! Always loved the way the Brits handled this type of stuff. CHEERS!
If it's possible to LOVE a horror movie, this is it for me. I first saw this when I was a young teenager all geared up on astronomy and the exciting new mysteries of space travel. It enthralled me then and still does. Unlike so many films of its genre and period, this is so well-crafted. The mystery and drama begin in the first few seconds and are maintained throughout. Great casting, great acting and music so superb that it is unequalled. It still makes me shiver.....
So, are you now an elderly teenager?
@@kennethrohen5963 I'm either going backwards or never grew up, despite what life has thrown at me. (PS--Tornados--best music ever) WHY GROW UP ANYWAY??
Seems so dated now, although still good.
That mirrors my experience exactly! My first was, the epic...' Quatermass and the Pit!!!!'
@@tcrown3333 Loved it..... Greetings from a kindred spirit.
Great stuff!! Never get tired of watching this absolute classic thank you.
Saw it when I was 5 in ' 57. What an impact on the young mind ! The Blob ( '58, ) was probably inspired by this !
The people shoved in the pipe and the screams still holds
A perfectly good sci-fi thriller for its day, with good writing and acting, and some very good camera work. I saw this twice when I was a little kid, and I've wanted to see it again ever since. Thanks for running it.
! saw it only in 1964, on a double bill with the remake with Jack Lemmon & June Allyson
of "It happened in one night".
Needless to say, I had to endure this unwanted
extra before my favorite !
That's 7 years after its original showing
in my country.
But I saw it again & again at every rerun in
local theaters, until the print was so worn
out that they no longer shew it !
I saw later at the same theater
"The Quatermass X-periment -
The Creeping Unknown"
Although a little disappointed by the lack of
action in this 1st part, Brian Donlevy once
more impressed me as a most outstanding
Pr. Quatermass.
"5 Million Years to Earth" scared the hell out of me in the sixties when I first saw it. I still has its creepy moments even now. As an aside, there is a quote in that one that describes perfectly the reaction to abrupt climate change now...."The will to survive is an odd phenomenon. Roney, if we found out our own world was doomed, say by climatic changes, what would we do about it?" Roney: "Nothing, just go on squabbling like usual."
The real title of that film was "Quatermass and the Pit".
"Nothing, just go on squabbling like usual." - see 'Don't look up'
Agree. 5million miles was a pivotal and very scary movie when I saw it as a 12 yo. A mix of horror and sci fi.
This was better than I expected.....a good sci-fi in B&W with veteran actor Brian D., who had a "Dangerous Assignment" with this one......kind of reminded me of the original Invaders From Mars, which came after this. Good One.
Quick note: INVADERS FROM MARS was made several years prior to this film (and was actually written in the late 40's.
This film is a favorite. Always nice to hear when it is discovered or re-discovered by people who might appreciate older black and white SF films!
what a load of u no what
QUATERMASS ,the name alone fills me with fear and trepidation .It has an unearthly quality to it .A sense of HORROR .A suggestion of EVIL .AAAAAARG!!!!
What a nice slow build. No stupid jump scares, just good writing, practical special effects, and acting.
The security team are as bad as Storm Troopers... Couldn't hit the side of a barn.
Love it.
Well, they were Tommy guns.
They smoked the newspaper man!
Wow! Thank you for posting and sharing a classic sci-fi film.
Surprisingly good. No crap CGI as in today's movies.
Difficult to make CGI without computers or even digital.
Couldn't agree more!!! These movies are so much better and just relay on acting and the threat of evil❤
This is such a classic. A rare sequel that's better than the original. Thanks for uploading it.
It's actually a remake. The original was a TV series. Same with the other 2 movies. Sadly, this one was lost apart from a couple of episodes, but the others are intact. The TV shows had a much darker feel than the movies. There was a remake of the original Quatermass series some time in the 2010s, a live event that played over 3 nights that starred Jason Flemyng as Quatermass and David Tennant as the doctor - NOT Dr. Who, but the one looking after the alien-infested astronaut. All of the original Quatermass TV series were live productions, like most UK TV back then.
@@TheDavidPoole Yes I've heard of the TV series. This is a sequel to The Quatermass Experiment is what I meant. Have you see the 70s TV series with Sir John Mills?
@@redditanonymous-p9wdarn I hate replying to a post and it disappears into the ether! I'll try again.
Yes, it was on when I was a kid. Don't remember too much about it other than Ringstone round, the gaslands style range rover, and the "spillings" in the sky. It did creep me out and I'd love to see it again! If you like Nigel Kneales style, I'd recommend you look up "The Stone Tape" it's another Kneale penned British TV show from around '72 I think. It's a good sci-fi horror. It's typical of its time, like the old Dr.Who. shows. Im sure he was a fan of Lovecraft. The only thing that i feel has captured his (Kneales) style in recent years are the Torchwood stories about the Aliens using kids as drugs and the one where people stopped dying. They were the best ones in the series in my view.
You've set me on a mission now to search out the 70s Quatermass show now 😀👍
Cheers!
Friggen Awesome Movie! I'm going to view it again right now! Thanks for posting!!
If you thought this was scary you should see Quatermass And The Pit. Scared me in 1958. It walked through the wall !
Great film!
One of the Great British SyFy classics, that had all the nail biting horror and edge of your seat suspense of a modern cult film. As kids, we used to huddle under bed cover and watch the scariest shows on TV, with all the house lights turned out--for the extra effect. One time, one of our parent sneaked up on us and gave a loud monster growl that sent us flying (covers and all). We all rolled when we found out who it was and what we looked like screaming in terror--as we ran for our lives.
My parents did the same thing!! jumping out and shouting at me after watching Dr who . Still scares me now😂 you can't beat the old movies xxx
Nothing short of a great classic movie. Keep them coming.
O.M.G Sid James. In QUATERMASS Great. Love the old films.
Sid played straight roles in many films, apart from all the comedy stuff!
Brian Donlevy is the Perfect Professor Quatermass !
I much prefer this to the original Quatermass film as I think this one holds up better, but out of the three Hammer Quatermass films Quatermass and the Pit is my all time favourite.Thanks for posting.
Not the colour version, please. The BBC TV series was much, much better on a more constrained budget!
@@mikehipperson I only meant out of the three films. The Tv version of Quatermass and the pit is in a world of its own and is the best of the Tv series. With a perfectly cast Quatermass.
As I’ve said before, these old movies are thrilling with intrigue and mayhem. For that time and even now they leave newer movies in their dust. The British sure new how to create a sense of doom. Love this and a lot of other great movies. 👏😁🇦🇺
The fact that the relevancy of this film TODAY is lost on the audience, is more frightening than the film itself.
A wonderful movie, thank you much for sharing it!!
I thought I saw all the sci-fi movies of the 50’s and 60’s when I was a kid. How I missed this outstanding one is beyond belief
One of the best SF films of all time Should be a remake.
It's nice to see Sid James as a legit hero
Always plays the same character!
He was in a lot of non comedic films before he found his niche in Carry On.
@@Aye-McHunt Ooooh! Found 'is niche, eh? Hwah-hwah-hwah!
A very good film from a bygone era. Thank you for uploading this. A few well known star's as well. It is well worth watching. PC. 20. 04. 2023.
I loved the movie, “5 Million Years to Earth,” called “Quatermass and the Pit”
in England…great plot, and still can thrill!
This was a really good movie! Thanks you!
One of my favourite films. If you are prepared to watch it more than twice a good film. It was shown UK tv about Christmas 1973 or 74. Stuck in my mind as a teen.
@@flybobbie1449 ~ How many Quartermass films are there? Two Three, Four?
@@old-manparker6153 No idea, seen 2.
My mum would sometimes bring up a movie where they stuffed bodies in pipes. Now I've found it! A couple of years too late but she said it was really scary so I'm going to watch it in memory of her.
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The three quatermass films are terrific, the third in particular is a masterpiece of the genre
I don’t know what it is about vintage British science-fiction, but I just love it….👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
One of the scariest Sci-Fi’s ever made. Positively brilliant
What a TERRIFIC FILM! Love all of the QUATERMASS versions - BUT THIS is THE BEST of ALL!!!!!!!
Hand it to the BRITS to always make the best SCI-FI FILMS and TV! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
GOOD ONE never seen this one Thank you
I saw this at a drive-in movie with my parents when I was a young, impressionable child, probably 5or 6 years old. It scared the bejesus out of me for years and it made it hard for me to go to sleep. I was terribly afraid one of those rock things would crash through my roof and infect me! I suffered for years because of this movie and couldn’t remember the name of it. Here I am in my 70’s looking at old sci-fi movies and here it is-Quatermas2. After 65 years I finally found the source of my nightmares for years, and it’s not all that scary as I watch it as an adult. 😅
I was but a lad when this came out. It never made it to the Saturday Nights at the Cheapies TV shows in the states so, this is the first time I have seen it. I like it! It was non-stop and reasonably well acted. Maybe the fact that no one could hit anything with machine guns was a bit off but, it was still well done. It is now 0300 and time for bed! Thank you for keeping me up for much longer than normal. LOL
Awesome…Wow, old SciFi’s…been years since I’ve seen these….lol… one of those which gave me nightmares as a kid was the Outer Limits, couldn’t sleep for many nights without waking up in the middle of the night ….☹️😥
Wow! I'm so excited. I am a fan of the Queatermass movies and I don't think I've seen this one before. Thanks for uploading!
Surprisingly realistic about the political machinations behind the scenes.
I’ve known about this film for years but gave up trying to find it and suddenly there it was. It did not disappoint. There were the usual problems of why invade a planet where you can’t breathe and killing the queen kills all the drones. But I really like the giant slime molds
In the TV series it's explicitly stated that the aliens eventually intend to alter Earth's atmosphere, ruling it by proxy until that time. And they are a group organism, there is no queen as such. Again the Tv series shows that only the aliens of Earth die (and not all of them because there are other plants under contruction), but for a group organism, it's pretty much the equivalent of losing a fingernail.
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interestingly, that's what the
military-run "remote viewers" in
Jim Marrs' 1997 "The Alien Agenda"
reported "seeing" about the different
species of "aliens", not that the latter are
a bunch of cells like in the movie, but that
the beings they "view" share a collective mind.
I cannot recommend you this (non-fiction) book
too much.
It's 1957 and there is no budget.
But never mind, it all turns out well in the end.
Overly dramatic backing music also overly loud, gives this film the right character for it's age.
It was an enjoyable romp into a world long gone.
This is a very High Class Sci FI Film completely believeable and very well made noted for its first use of the famous Land Rover 4WD and a very scary film and with these UFO;s flying about recorded and filmed too a very pertinent subject today/
This is a film which can be watched again and again. It never pales.
The music in this film sure does add to the suspense and excitement. 👍👍🌟💖🤗
5 of 4 stars! Outstanding movie.
This isn't an Amazon review.
Really like the old Syfy they're interesting to see how far they have come from than and know love these black and white movies 🎬..I give it 5 stars 🌟
Les, then why is there only one? Why not add four more!
Thanks good film
Please please please upload Quatermass & The Pit next!
Great plot great use of available location and great casting, a real sci-fi gem!
I remember seeing movie in the 60s and struck in my memories, scared me as a kid,
Love it and very glad to see it again, Fantastic Movie!!
This was the very first science fiction film I ever saw. The rest is history!
Or do I mean hysteria???
Classic , the scene when they hear the scream through the pipes only to find out that those men had been stuffed in to block them always stuck with me as a kid ..... scary .
Great British sci fi ❤❤❤
Only ever saw Brian Donlevey as Quatermas until a few weeks ago. Here, on UA-cam he played a romantic part, I forget the film but he can act. So different a character.
I just got into these. The guy Quatermass or the character is a real A hole in the first one. He is better here and more negotiable with the British scientists. The third one is the best
I completely agree. I loved these as a kid and then watched the first one again last week and when he was preventing the astronaut from getting proper medical attention, just so that he could find out what happened on the flight, i was thinking ''he's such an ass''.
What a freaking surprize, with no special cgi effects. Put this up on your big screen.
Never cared for Brian Dunleavy, but the short punk made this believable
I haven't seen this movie since I was a child. Really enjoyed watching it again!
I saw the Creeping Unknown on tv in the 60s (Qautermass Experiment 1). I’m old now and it still scares me! Saturday nights were king in the 60s for these great movies! I was in the NYC market area.
If you can try to find the TV broadcast of "Quatermass and the Pit". Andre Morell stars as Quatermass in what was probably the most scarey Sci-Fi series for its time with what we're superb effects on a very limited budget. As a lad at the time I spent a lot of time peeking at the telly from behind the sofa!
Do not, under any circumstances, mistake it for the colour movie of the same name. It's crap compared to the TV version!
I've tried, believe me, but I think it has been lost. I remember seeing an episode at a friend's house as a kid and it was terrifying. Then the grown-ups turned the TV off and said it was too scary for us children (we were children back then. 'Kids' was an insult)..
This is a good film, although "Quatermass & The Pit" (aka "Five Million Years to Earth") with Andrew Keir as Quatermass is still the definitive Quatermass film for me.
I bought this several years ago and still holds its head up high amongst other modern movies. Great stuff.
Wonderful seeing these old films again.
There's sort of a remake of this movie out there too. In fact, these Quatermass stories have been redone a dozen different ways, movies and remakes, TV movies, and series. It's become sort of a classic sci-fi story.
goes to show how popular they are ❤
The quatermass films were actually reworked versions of Nigel Kneale's TV series that were popular in the UK in the black and white TV era. Quatermass' companion/assistant is Brian Forbes, husband of Nanette Newman, whom he directed in the original version of The Stepford Wives.
The film moves at a good pace. Interesting flick. Thanks for posting.
Great writing ! Wonderful script !
Like Doctor Who, Bernard Quatermass is a character who can be played by multiple actors, each with their own unique style. I wish he'd be brought back - with minimal effects and relying on quality plots and scripts like the original three moves.
They would ruin it with woke nonsense.
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True. Today Bernard Quatermass would be a Somalian ftm Trans Man with outspoken hatred for White men and British Colonialism...
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Damn but this movie has held up well. Just brilliant.
Great movie i love Quatermass hes so curt and full of authorrity ty poster
You're talking Donlevy here, Sistor!
"You have your assignment. Good luck!"
Every week in "Dangerous Assignment" he was advised-so
while just missing the knife thrown at him. 1951 TV series.
Top 5 sci-fi films of all time. 👍
thanks, this was very good. watched the whole movie start to finish.
Wow! This shows how great screenplay, direction, and photography can overcome low budget! Stick to it; it pays off in the end!
Good to see Syd James in this movie. He's not a bad actor outside the carry on movies. I have seen him play a serious roll in another movie.
Syd James did westerns too.Sadly he got comfortable doing the carry on stuff so we rarely got to see his real acting.
SID and ROLE.
Hard to imagine he did comedy Bless this House.
I had completely forgotten this movie until the scene with the pipe breaking and the blood dripping. Well written story.
فيلم كلاسيكي جميل يستحق المشاهدة ...شكرا صديقي ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Remarquable so intelligent and spectacular, the anti-hollywood.
i loved this movie - it was perfect
Great movie,, good plot, great science. 😊
Love the way the heroes persistently stand in a window, outlined against the light with the armed and murderous villains outside.
Every time I hear ‘Mars, Bringer of War’ by Gustav Holst, I immediately think of and remember watching the original brilliant and terrorising 1950s TV version of The Quatermass Experiment ll, as a very young boy!
This was a really, really good sci-fi movie from these times. WAY different in conception....A whole town feeding the "mass."
Oh, this is a good one.
Sid James on a serious role
Sid James would have been better in the title role.
It's not "Quatermass Experiment II"; it's "Quatermass 2". While this one is good, "Quatermass and the Pit" is the best in the series and it is in color.
This one was way better than expected. It's worth watching.
Gripping and engaging film.
Je viens de regarder le film version sous-titré, du début à la fin, je vais m'abonner. La belle qualité du cinéma anglais dans tout son art. Merci.❤❤❤❤❤❤.
WOW THIS IS A REALLY GOOD MOVIE
I just watched They Came From Beyond Space and it is clear that it is a remake of this Masterpiece.
Now, here is a classic flick from start to finish.
Can't help wondering if a modern iteration would be worthy enough.
@JZ's BFF Hold on! Mine from 1945 is unspoiled still! Why, I LIVE in the Fifties and savor every moment! All that is new and digital ONLY goes to support all of that, sort of as my slave. (Although my appliances are mostly from the pre-planned obsolescence Twenties, you know stuff that never ever wears out -- a century old and VALUE still comes flowing from it! Try THAT now.)
Nope! Unspoiled still exists; you just have to look hard for it.
No, a modern version would be horrible.
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Sadly, likely so.
Well, the original does just fine.
(They'll likely colorize it soon.)
I love these Qmass shows!
memories! i remember my parents taking me and my sister to the local theatre (i was 12)
Most of films made 50s early 60s were combinations of Americans and UKs finest. Why are Americans , lead actors each flick ?. They paid the bills !. Quartermaster is amongst the best. The original , UFO in London underground. Thanks enthusiasts. Dave
I wasn't the only commenter on QI to observe how excellent the soundtrack is. (same composer) music is so essential, so overlooked....