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Original British Title: QUATERMASS 2 American Title: ENEMY FROM SPACE Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2
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Both of Val Guest's 1950's Hammer QUATERMASS vehicles rely on different science-fiction scenarios, so you don't have to watch one to enjoy the other: starting with a Frankenstein story involving the titular scientist's funded return-space-flight gone awry, and the second has aliens behind a project meant to send rockets back up into space (while some kind of comet dust is randomly burning people's skin)...
Condensed into a 90-minute programmer involving an enigmatic town, created within a power plant to supposedly make food for humans to live on a moon colony (borrowed from Quatermass's abandoned project), engulfing one man with a tar-like substance: a horrifying image that this particular Hammer's best remembered...
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| Vera Day in QUATERMASS 2 |
Ironically, for such a far-out tale, the most important element's grounded in a jitterbugging beer pub that features lovely waitress (and British scream queen) Vera Day, alongside Percy Herbert as the most determined of a group of disgruntled construction workers...
Who did all the heavy lifting for the ever-suspicious factory, joining with American import Brian Donlevy as the title Quatermass (with a rushed cameo by Sidney James's boozing journalist), fervently spouting rushed exposition to keep the page-turning thriller rolling under the flowing direction of Hammer stock Val Guest...
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| Brian Donlevy in QUATERMASS 2 |
Yet QUATERMASS 2 leaves the best aspects to the matte painted visuals, like an ominous factory-sized dome or a parked rocket-ship, straight from those wonderfully fantastical pages of vintage sci-fi magazines...
And what eventually connects both Guest-Hammer QUATERMASS pictures is a gigantic alien monster attacking in a noisy climax — just in case the more standard and studied, pulpy elements (from theorized dialogue to machine-gun-wielding baddies) weren't enough for those early genre addicts, who get... despite this being a fan favorite... more an appetizer than a completely satisfying, full-course meal.
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Brian Donlevy and Bryan Forbes in QUATERMASS 2
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| Brian Donlevy and Bryan Forbes in QUATERMASS 2 |
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Brian Donlevy and Bryan Forbes in QUATERMASS 2 with William Franklyn
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| Brian Donlevy in QUATERMASS 2 |
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| Tom Chatto in QUATERMASS 2 |
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| Brian Donlevy and Sidney James in QUATERMASS 2 |
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| Vera Day and Sidney James in QUATERMASS 2 |
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| Vera Day and Percy Herbert in QUATERMASS 2 |
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| Brian Donlevy and Bryan Forbes in QUATERMASS 2 |
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| Brian Donlevy and William Franklyn in QUATERMASS 2 |
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| Brian Donlevy and Michael Ripper in QUATERMASS 2 |
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| Space Monster attacks QUATERMASS 2 |
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| Vera Day and Brian Donlevy in QUATERMASS 2 |
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| Vera Day in QUATERMASS 2 |
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| Vera Day and Brian Donlevy in QUATERMASS 2 |
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Brian Donlevy in QUATERMASS 2 aka ENEMY FROM SPACE
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