Quatermass 2

Quatermass 2

6.4IMDb Score
Released:1957-06-17
Genre:Science Fiction, Horror
Duration:85 min
Country:United Kingdom
Director:Val Guest
Actors:Brian Donlevy, John Longden, William Franklyn, Bryan Forbes, Charles Lloyd Pack
Production:Hammer Film Productions

Overview:

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.

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