Zoos in the 50s were barbaric.

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So is this guy just going to fiddler-crab around the countryside terrorizing folks now?

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"All those other girls just want to talk about dolls! You don't care about that at all, do you, doll?"

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Falls into a canal boat. As one does. In England. #Monsterdon

Well coming out of the closet was very dangerous in 1955. #monsterdon

Victor would I guess be a good rat name

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You ‘bout to catch these cactus fists!

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Checkovs baby carriage

Quatermass is the scientist, not the monster...

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@CactuarJoe He probably tastes gross though

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i had some ginger that got like that recently #monsterdon

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He must eat to survive.. except that he didn't when he was PURE ENERGY IN SPACE..

I don't understand anything.

This girl is on about cake and I am here for it

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poor man, wearing nothing but hand-me-downs

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Okay, I'm counting man merging with cactus and beating up people with spines as "Monster Reveals New Power ✅ " but it's not a power I'd want. Oh, and is that coffee? Check! ✅

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are the bodies dessicated because he's sucking the moisture out or…

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@CactuarJoe

If people had more respect for his personal space, much tragedy would be avoided...

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@cocaine_owlbear I'm glad he was rescuing those wives, and it's too bad this wasn't another job like that. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

This Americans, is the after effect of WWII on London.
That's all high rise office blocks now, and hotels.

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the space cactus got him

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You sit down by this barrel of toxic waste, while I set this up. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

ope, found the chemist.

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this one didn't turn into jelly, it turned into FABRIC

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"But Carroon was an engineer! He didn't know anything about chemistry!"

If he's anything like your typical engineer, he thinks he knows something about chemistry.

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Obviously the astronauts were attempting to smuggle jelly into the UK because Brexit

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This man cannot carry on a normal conversation without shaving.

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Props to the dude emoting the 'creeping unknown' there, I'm feeling pretty fragile myself and I can sympathise...

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@SesameSquirrel Set some boundaries for pete's sake!

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I would definitely let a stumbly guy with goo all over his face into my store after hours..

most of the 50’s was shaving and looking for your hat #Monsterdon

his voice said "no" but his arms flung wide open in anticipation say "thank GOD I don't have to work a shift tomorrow"

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What a jaunty little shaving tune you were whistling there. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment #Quatermass1955

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if someone's gonna cactus-whack you, don't lean back and open your arms wide. It will only make the whacking worse

Nooo!

He's going to sucker punch the pharmacist!

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Chaos in the streets! Plants and animals multiplying together.

There's a lot of huge leaps in logic going on in this one scene.

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"... and to live, it must eat! and pray! ... and... LOVE!!!"

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QUATERMASS TAKES THE LEAD again christ dude let someone else take center stage for once #Monsterdon

He hates bottles!
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Victor smash!

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'are you in pain?' 'no, i'm in the chemist's'

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Hulk Hand!

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Is that Chekov's trashcans? Oh no he's just going to dig through those right now, never mind. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment #Quatermass1955

No one know how far or where the rocket traveled? NO ONE on the science team had taken calculus or advanced physics? #Monsterdon

When you get smashed protect yourself with wide open arms!

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Now I want this guy to touch a Corgi #Monsterdon

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He's like The Thing. He destroyed the cactus to take it's appearance.

A UNION between PLANTS and ANIMALS

with the ability to DESTROY

so it's ... a fungus?

and it's among us?

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something got into that rocket and it really likes aloe vera!

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⁉️ THE TRIVIA XPERIMENT ❌🚀

(internet connection is iffy 😬)

👀 Check out actress Margia Dean, who plays Judith Carroon. The former beauty queen got the job because she was "associated with" 20th Century Fox president, Spyros Skouras.

Val Guest: "She was a sweet girl, but she couldn't act".

Her American accent was problematic so her lines were dubbed later.

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this is why we test airlocks before relying on them, really

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"CactusMan, CactusMan, does whatever a catus can"

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#monsterdon Lot of shaving scenes in this film.

Are you in pain, is this something to do with your arm?

Have you seen his face man?

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Poor Chemist only wanted to help....

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Life... But not life as we know it Jim.
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"...but, these prints aren't even human."

Nice penny drop. 😬

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I'm a scientist I only believe facts! Facts and vague suppositions!

And I'm totally lacking in human feelings!

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He's a human-vegetable
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I suspect the shot of the dead private eye’s face is one of a few reasons this film was rated X (in the UK). I read that the ‘X’ in “Xperiment” is for X-rated.

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What a scream.
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cacti don't have thorns, they have spines >:(

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of course his hand was grey, this is a black and white film

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You know what this movie needs?

A timpani solo!

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ladies get you a man who looks at you like he's about to drain your life force with his cactus hand

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Do the youth even know that cars used to just have cigarette lighters standard?

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"Oh Victor darling, Try and be quick, the Johnsons are coming for dinner and we don't want to be late. Cigarette?"

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She is burning plants!

I guess hospital security won't catch this, but the hospital accounting department will catch him to get his deductible.

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I'll keep you nice and healthy. Give me a light? #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

People really obsessing over the cactus
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DAMN YOU PLANT LIFE! DAMN YOU TO HELL!

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Everyone is so brittle

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"Wives usually pay me to get them AWAY from their husbands."

This guy has a disturbing job and a much more interesting back story than he needs for his part in this movie. #Monsterdon

British hospitals in 1955 had Star Trek doors! #Monsterdon #Quatermass1955 #QuatermassXperiment

he's hiding his skin care regimen.

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Ah ha THERE is why this film got tagged "cactus"!

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Yep. Dead orderly. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

@trixter rocket radiation is apparently not contagious #Monsterdon

"Victor, you're oozing more than normal tonight"

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*Thriller intensifies* #monsterdon

"Must you smoke darling?"

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"It's prickly and dry.... LIKE ME!?!?!"

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Okay, plants (well oxygen photosynthesizers) *are* responsible for more mass extinctions than humans, but you don't need to take revenge on all o them

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Cactus......PUNCH! (to the tune of Kamen Rider... Punch!)

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This guy looks like if Don Knotts was an zombie. #Monsterdon

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that *is* a lovely aloe tbh

Murdered by a succulent, what a way to go.

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@chirpbirb he's living the dystopican dream, really

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I think this orderly is going to get a case of dead. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

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Maybe the silent astronaut is just from the Midwest..

@Lazarou That cactus knows what it did. #Monsterdon #TheQuartermassXperiment 🎥🍿

I sort of love that old school below the knee high collar doctor's jacket with the offset buttons. I'd love to have a lab coat like that.

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Does he have any personal vendetta against plants? First the flowers, now the potted ones.
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Faux nurse? A male nurse in 1955, is that legal? #Monsterdon

DAMN YOU CACTUS

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this dude nurse is pretty sassy

"I will.be shot at dawn." Said with such panache.
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Soaked Shirt? Suddenly dry!
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Oh man. She’s a snitch. #Monsterdon