On this week's Monster Mondays, Geoff takes a look at a sci-fi thriller that became a massive influence for decades to come… Hammer's The Quatermass Xperiment from 1955!
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I guess Re-Animator, but Herbert West again means well, and Jeffrey Combs is funny.
The Dunwich Horror? Dean Stockwell's the most charming weirdo, and is legitimately evil and summoning his Other Father.
Dr Quatermass: Possibly not as bad as the worst two H.P. Lovecraft villains, but less charming.
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Quatermass and the Pit is *so* much better and Q is at least 50% less villainous in it. He has the biggest Mark Zuckerberg energy in Xperiment. I've never seen a film so blatantly make the main character, whose name is in the title, just an unloveable soulless experiment-until-dead-then-study-the-corpses parody of a scientist.
Dr Frankenstein *does* have a moral turn. Brundle in the remake of The Fly? Charming old John Hammond means well.
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Monster: NO KILL I, MY BABIES
Quatermass: THROW THE SWITCH.
Copper: In my simple Bible way, I contributed nothing.
Quatermass: I have learned nothing either. I need more dead spacemen.
<Rockets>
THE END
Little potatoes.
Bigger potato.
TENTACLES! Every monster turns into tentacles!
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Normally when you have 15-30 minutes to kill in a film, you go film *interesting* stuff at a circus or zoo, or stock footage. Here, they've found nighttime with zoo cages. And still nothing's happening. Then it just fades out, because even '60s England had animal cruelty laws.
Well it's no Demeter, but it'll do. Rats in the hold.
Little girl plays tea party at shitty industrial waste.
If a little girl demands I stay and have tea and cakes there, I'd run away, too! Probably poisoned.
Film Seizure
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