There's a problem loading this menu at the moment. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Predicting the themes of early David Cronenberg films, Xperiment taps our primal fears of personal decay and disease through the pitiful, suffering astronaut played by Richard Wordsworth. Q II - sinister happenings occur in the vicinity of an isolated, supposedly innocent research station. Odd items included are a lady BBC announcer (rare in those days) and an officious 'Not for children or persons of a nervous disposition' warning. She is played by Jane Asher, a future Paul McCartney girlfriend and accomplished actress (Alfie). Wasting no time in mourning, the Professor prepares to launch rocket number two. Directed by Sam Miller. In the third series, 'Quatermass and the Pit', Andre Morell stars as Quatermass, whose curiosity is aroused when ancient bones and a strange pod are dug up on a Knightsbridge building site. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 November 2015. Find all the best television shows from the other side of the pond in our, The BBC Quatermass Experiment [DVD] [2005], Quatermass Collection: Quatermass Experiment / Quatermass 2 [DVD], Village of the Damned / Children of the Damned [DVD] [1960] [2006], Beasts - The Complete Series [DVD] [1976], Downton Abbey Movie & TV Collection [DVD] [2020], Agatha's Christie's Spider's Web (BBC) [DVD]. It hypes every horrific moment in the show but foolishly reveals the mystery monster right off, spoiling the suspense. Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads. A three-disc set of the classic horror stories. Wonderful overlooked series...Not for region One (American) dvd players!!! Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. At the time I was a young lad aged 7 years and I vividly remember being scared out of my wits, especially in the final episode in which Quatermass killed the monster. Val Guest's The Quatermass Xperiment (U.S. title: The Creeping Unknown) was among the very earliest successful motion picture adaptations of a television original.Based on a 1953 six-part BBC drama authored by Nigel Kneale, it arrived on screen in England in the same year that Delbert Mann's Marty (based on Paddy Chayefsky's television drama) was released in America. The Quatermass Xperiment simplified several of the ideas from Kneale's original story and compressed a lot of the action, but otherwise was years ahead of its time as one of the 1950's most uncompromisingly adult-oriented science fiction films. An interesting experiment in live TV captured in the filming of The Quatermass Experiemnt, Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2016. the bonus material and director/producer/actor commentary brings a lot more to the experience of watching the Quatermass Experiement, which was a movie-length teleplay broadcast LIVE on the BBC in 2005. Very disappointed but didn't find it out until I went to play it a couple of weeks ago. United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2.4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: 3-DVD Set, Black & White, Booklet, Box Set, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Photo Gallery, Remastered, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Professor Quatermass became one of television's first heroes and the serials themselves earned a place in small-screen history. This leads to a rather rushed and game ending. When the rocket returns to Earth, it crashes in Wimbledon. Could this discovery begin to explain the string of disturbing events that have taken place in the area over the centuries, as well as the wave of sinister occurences that are now engulfing the entire city? I recommend picking that up instead. Jason Flemyng, Adrian Dunbar, Mark Gatiss, David Tennant, Indira Varma, Alison Willett, Bill Boyes, Marcus Hearn, Richard Fell, Previous page of related Sponsored Products, Not a good show, but will survive being run over by a compact sedan, Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2018. This title will be released on November 17, 2020. A laboratory sample of the space creature festers into an amoeba-like thing that attempts to consume some test mice. The story begins as professor Bernard Quatermass (Donlevy) rushes to the crash site of his rocket group's first manned spaceship. The manhunt turns into a fight for survival as the creature continues to kill and mutate, threatening to release spores into the air and spread itself by the millions throughout the Earth. As it was filmed in 1955, I would have thought that the show would be formatted for 1:66, but doing so crops the main title card. If I wanted a DVD-R of this movie, I would've torrented a copy. Audiences were so successfully pulled into the movie's mood of suspense and paranoia, and its documentary-style realism, that the denouement ended up as a pounding, spellbinding conclusion. Take the time to listen to the Audio Commentary for great insight to this movie. Copyright © var now = new Date(); document.write(now.getFullYear()) MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. For possible purchasers: The Q E - manned rocket returns to Earth long after it should have, with two of the three cew apparently missing. Please try again. Use up arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+up arrow) and down arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+down arrow) to review and enter to select. But, in the absence of the final four original episodes, all we have to go on is the Hammer film and this. By the time he's killing zoo animals, we see only his staring eye, and hear him dragging his bulk along the ground. The film is notable for a mounting sense of dread and good performances by all the actors. And yes, it's as bad as they said it was. The Ministry of Defence believe it to be an unexploded bomb, but when they manage to dig inside the shell, dead insect-like creatures are found. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, Extended holiday return window till Jan 31, 2021, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Even more baffling, the spacesuits of the other two men are still aboard the wrecked ship and are still interlocked, as though they were in them when whatever transpired. The third man, Victor Caroon, soon begins to change, mutating into a weird amorphous monstrosity that slithers and slimes its way into Westminster Abbey, where it is eventually incinerated by electricity. Learn more about DVD region specifications. Click or Press Enter to view the items in your shopping bag or Press Tab to interact with the Shopping bag tooltip. Carroon and his crew were fully aware of the risks they took, and courageously dared to test the 'waters' of outer space. As sympathetic as Frankenstein's monster, Victor Carroon has a Karloff-like encounter with a small girl. This item: Quatermass Collection (Quatermass Experiment / Quatermass II / Quatermass and the Pit) by Anthony Bushell DVD $16.81 The BBC Quatermass Experiment [DVD] by Jason Flemyng DVD $15.26 The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) aka The Creeping Unknown [Blu-ray] by Brian Donlevy Blu-ray $19.89 Customers who viewed this item also viewed Can't use because it says only for area 2. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. The Quatermass Experiment (1953): The plan was to pilot a manned rocket some 1500 miles above the earth for observation purposes and then to return. In the process, he also created the distant antecedent to The X-Files, mixing the science and detective genres into a whole that came off more substantial than the sum of those parts. Great to see Quatermass again after all these years. The most complete version of 'the Pit' and presented in the original episodic format, there is a version available that has been edited into a seamless narrative by Nigel Kneale himself, but this omits some crucial scenes along with the credits and review scenes at the top and tail of each episode, and it is over 4 times the price of this offering. All three series are there, four episodes are missing from the first series but the scripts are provided for the faithful to peruse. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 August 2020. Blu-ray, DVD. This is a well-written and acted television series. Judith Caroon tries to spirit her husband out of the hospital where he's being cared for, not knowing that something horrific is happening to him. i give this 5 stars for a combination of the quality of the acting, what went in to producing the show and how well they did pulling that off, and the bonus material. In the first series, Reginald Tate plays Professor Bernard Quatermass, head of the British Rocket Group, an experimental research body. Please try again. Includes the two surviving episodes of series one, as well as the complete six episodes of series two and three. The Quatermass Xperiment MGM Limited Edition Collection 1955 / Color / 1:37 flat full frame / 82 min. The Hammer film is actually very good, despite the barking Quatermass of Brian Donlevy (and mainly thanks to the superb performance of Richard Wordsworth). Like The Thing, this space invader absorbs other life forms. The BBC have performed a great service in making these great TV serials available on DVD. Sadly, there were only two surviving episodes of the original six but nevertheless I thoroughly enjoyed them. Carroon is possessed, but not necessarily by an alien with plans for invasion - the 'space contagion' may not even be intelligent. At the time I was a young lad aged 7 years and I vividly remember being scared out of my wits, especially in the final episode in which Quatermass killed the monster.