Quatermass 2

Quatermass 2(1957)

"A horrible enemy from the unknown strikes terror across the earth!"

6.4/10
137 votes
85 minMay 24, 1957

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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