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The Quatermaxx Xperiment (1955) - 3/5

They had cactoid alien that eats a zoo and becomes a library of biological form in the palm of their hands and they fumbled it.

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@rebeld Quatermass was the real monster, all along! #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

i have sort of zoned out from the movie thinking about what the blob is up to, and why are they in like a mausoleum or palace or whatever this is #monsterdon

Don't feel bad for the alien. Remember that it killed a bunch of cats.

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"Screw you guys, I'm QUATERMASS" #Monsterdon

"He learned... Too late... That man.. Is a FEELING creature..." #Monsterdon

Remarkably little fanfare for electrocuting a monster. #Monsterdon

how would you have managed to let hundreds of people into your zoo before realizing that all the animals have been absorbed into some guys arm and their corpses are lying empty all over the ground #monsterdon

so this dude just treats living creatures like caprisuns?

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You sit there by this unexploded German bomb and I'll make the tea
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soon he'll be more cactus than man! we have to find victor and administer the anti-cactal serum! #monsterdon

the found footage is a pretty creepy really, well done!

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Just fling your patient into the bed, I’m sure it’s fine. #Monsterdon

@jonny I assume space was just like that until they cleared out all the demons and what not in the 70''s

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Quatermass: “You’ve GOT to watch this film!”

[hands him a VHS tape of Rocky Horror]

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Man, good thing they didn't quarantine the obviously ill man or anything. #Monsterdon

@moira oh damn it i want gummy bears now.

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everyone: this rocket shit is weird! look at how this guy's skin is!

victor: 👁️ 👄 👁️

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Everyone knows air has two sides

This side and the other side

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"I'm Lomax. I speak for the trees." #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe

"Rosebud"

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Astronauts hate getting wet. They surrender immediately after getting sprayed

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Dammit Jim, I’m a scientist not a fortune teller

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I want that VW microbus, damn it.

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Okay, yeah, so I misspelled oscilloscope on the bingo card. I was under caffeinated at the time and my grasp of the language was wiggly. #monsterdon

@rebeld I think it's a recurring theme in the Quatermass series...imagine that in real life though! oh wait...

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@paco I think, today in 2026, if the police had to go round in a car with a speaker on top telling everyone to 'remain calm' some very terrible thing must have happened

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The 90s Mothra trilogy are very much for the kids. Not that 90s Godzilla was dark and edgy for adults only, but Mothra had a younger target audience. But still really good monster effects.
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@JoeWynne Wonder if the files come back to haunt him? #monsterdon

@jonny
I thought she just sorta freaked out and screamed herself into a delirium, as women in 50s horror movies are want to do. 🤷‍♂️

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you forgot the part where he almost killed all of London, and ruined a perfectly good BBC show.

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I actually thought some of the shots/camera work in Quatermass were at times interesting and surprisingly modern. Fun stuff. I would definitely suggest this one to classic SciFi enthusiasts.

I award the Quartemass Xperiment 2 out of 5 decapitated dollies. I liked the mystery part of it better than the other parts; the solution to the mystery was kind of a let down.

The best characters were the lady who wandered in the police station to tell a rambling story and the little girl who was very pushy about getting the zombie astronaut to join her tea party. The main characters never evinced much emotion other than being crotchety.

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As an electrical engineer, I promise you don't need to turn off half of london to electrify one scaffold.

Two scaffolds maybe, but not one.
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it would actually be the most fun katamari game of all time, if instead of just growing a bigger ball, you just became a more and more badass blob that could take hybrid forms picked from all the different creatures you had absorbed #monsterdon

JUICED BY SPORES

JUICED BY SPORES

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...Really feels like a missed opportunity for a question mark in that THE END #Monsterdon

'Attention, everybody. There is no cause for alarm"

Well, if I wasn't worried before, now I am!

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I think the future Inquiry will absolutely blame Quatermass for all of this.

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Kill transmission!
I thought we killed transmission earlier?
Well kill it again!

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Attention everyone. Britain is closed. Tea is canceled.

(screaming)

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Poor cactupus climbed up on the scaffolding and can’t get down

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Ah the novelty of watching something terrible unfold live on television....

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Cactupus

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Please do warn the children not to touch anything unusual. #Monsterdon

You can still see the alien goo on Westminster Abbey today...

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I was listening to a Miss Marple mystery earlier today, and I feel like Rosie would’ve fit in more there than she did in this movie

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MONSTER GOO TENDRIL

uhhh was not expecting it to turn into this kind of movie

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They just LEAVE THE BURNER ON???? #Monsterdon

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I like Rosie

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I am totally going to start carrying an extendo-grabby thing in my pocket. #Monsterdon

I bet we’re not going to get the llamas promised by that sign. #Monsterdon

Finally some Science Tongs

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This cheetah was killed by an energy that could only be described as "flamin' hot"

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what's happening why are we introducing like a dozen new characters 2/3 through the movie when we haven't even figured out what the hell is the deal with the space cactus man #monsterdon

@jonny having absorbed the power of tea parties he shall be unstoppable #monsterdon

Little girl, to Alien Victor: "Oh! We thought you were rats!"

(Nope: cactus.)

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...At this point I think the KID is gonna eat HIM #Monsterdon

WHY did he punch the cactus? could he have punched any plant and merged with its powers? what is the affinity between the aliens and cacti!!?!?! #monsterdon

Oh is it time for Frankenstein to Interact With Children? #Monsterdon

Really enjoying the way he says “tiss-yew”. #Monsterdon

"Not life as we know it"

Yet more influence on future science fiction (2001 was the first)

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#Monsterdon But... who sends a CACTUS to a hospital patient?

i am so lost here. did victor smash the cactus to give his hand the power to drain life #monsterdon

Is that a cactus in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? #Monsterdon

MUST. DESTROY. SUCCULENTS.

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He really hates that cactus

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I bet this story hit different when the idea of an eccentric and arrogant wealthy rocket tycoon putting the whole Earth at risk (presumably) was a hypothetical scenario

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Case not closed. They're looking for a reason to deny his health care.

case closed dumbass, the other guys were jellified and the last guy is just haunted now! #monsterdon

Are they not men?

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Well, at least they're gelling as a crew :D #Monsterdon

haven't you heard of guys getting jellified before or did you just talk over everyone who has tried to tell you about it #monsterdon

The violins tell me that something stupendous is about to happen in this pulse-taking scene!

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The premise of tonight's #monsterdon is "we sent some guys to space in a rocket and only one of them came back and he's weird now. watch our scientist crankily investigate this space mystery and yell at everyone."

Looks like you’ve got an infestation of space slugs

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"Mind if I have a sample?"

Sure, open up. $5.25 in the pudding aisle. #Monsterdon

the solution is elementary, my dear inspector!

benedict cumberbatch is in this movie?

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@CactuarJoe

Time for a Voight-Kampf test!

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he belongs in a museum! i mean, hospital!

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"Unlock his mind for me!"

Open his skull like a walnut and suck the meat out with a straw! #Monsterdon

Hey, he's got The Lion Sleeps Tonight heartbeat! Aweemaway Syndrome :x #Monsterdon

[zooms in on newspaper headline]

The Onion: Dirty Rocket Gets Bath

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Was that a thing? Sit at ones office desk and just shave while someone talks to you?

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He said "Garp" and he said "Good" and then he died. #Monsterdon

Clearly he ate the other two crewmembers....

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The only reason this movie doesn't have walk-and-talk motormouth scenes is that they couldn't make big enough sets :P #Monsterdon

Yeah, make sure you move his spine around as much as possible. #Monsterdon

The minister of defense gets driven around in a VW van.....#monsterdon

Cute bus, tho #Monsterdon

"I'm a scientist, not a fortune teller who predicts what will happen."

Oh? Are you the kind of fortune teller who doesn't predict what will happen?!

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That's dog for hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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"It's probably a meteor!"

*CHK-CHK!* I'll get it. #Monsterdon

my disc copy of this starts with a zoom-out from the MGM logo that feels very much like leaving the theatre in the Satellite of Love

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No, I think Quartermass was the Creep. Why is he the way he is? Unknown.

I like how Quatermass walks away without responding to anyone*, like he’s a pod person.

* except Marsh

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Quartermass invades Greenland. #monsterdon