82 mins / 85 mins - United Kingdom 1955 / United Kingdom 1957 Director: Val Guest Starring: Brian Donlevy, Richard Wordsworth and Sid James Triskel Arts Centre is delighted to present a double feature of THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (1955) and QUATERMASS 2 (1957), both directed by BAFTA winner Val Guest (THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE, THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN) and starring Oscar nominee Brian Donlevy (DESTINY RIDES AGAIN, THE BIG COMBO) as Professor Bernard Quatermass. The definitive science-horror story and the film that catapulted Hammer from a B-picture studio into the majors, THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT still retains its power to shock seven decades after its initial release, now newly remastered for the first time. When the British-American Rocket Group sends an experimental manned spacecraft into outer space they soon lose contact and it crash-lands over two days later. But, as the scientists force entry to rescue the three-man crew, they find to their horror only one astronaut and two empty space-suits. After the phenomenal success of THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT, Hammer decided to make a sequel: QUATERMASS 2. When a series of meteorite showers
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