@JoeWynne Wonder if the files come back to haunt him? #monsterdon

@ottaross #monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon bonus comment

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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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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@jonny definitely yes, that's in the Succession Act of 1548

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

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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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

#Monsterdon

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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@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

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?

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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@jonny #monsterdon

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

Are they not men?

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Well, at least they're gelling as a crew :D #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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the solution is elementary, my dear inspector!

benedict cumberbatch is in this movie?

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

@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

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

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?!

@apLundell

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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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@plaidtron3000 #monsterdon

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

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

* except Marsh

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@SRLevine Especially to an astronaut who seems to run a lot of...experimental missions.

"I promise to love you, no matter what alien life form might ever take you over....."

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luckily for us mister crab monster kind of ignores all the electric wires being set up, so when they dramatically switch on the electricity he catches fire. Unfortunately, I don't see the whole Abby burning up, which would be a fun thing to add. Instead there's just a big... um... smoked goo monster lingering on some scaffolding.

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So is Quatermass a mob boss, or

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they turned off big ben during the bongs, so you know it's serious

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I can't believe they will get this all cleaned-up in 7 minutes

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Ooooo, that power station is now a shopping centre and community hub, it was one of the reasons why people were choking to death with pollution in the 50s.

It's a pretty cool location now, Battersea Power Station

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Tell Quatermass to get his burly arse in here

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Why am I expecting the thing in the case to start singing show tunes?

#Alien #Spaceballs

#monsterdon #Quatermass1955

@JoshuaACNewman I have it as a poster down in the garage with my bike and little workbench ^_^

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“I washed me hands and face before I come, I did.” #Monsterdon

"I'm young enough to be your mother. Though what respectable person would want to be I don't know." That's a pretty good burn.

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That is a damned depressing zoo. #Monsterdon #Quatermass1955 #QuatermassXperiment

I’m calling his reaction to the tea party ‘heavy skepticism’, which makes a bingo! #Monsterdon #Quatermass1955 #QuatermassXperiment

#Monsterdon it figures that the girl with the creepy doll would want to play tea party with the man who looks like a zombie

Oh! We thought you were a rat!

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Fun fact: the title of the film is Xperiment because it’s rated X

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@SnoopJ I said all he really needs is a good moisturiser

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oh goodness, i didn't realise that was a child with a baby doll and nearly had a heart attack

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This girl is aggressive

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This guy is a real prick

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GET YOUR NATIONAL HEALTH PRESCRIPTION #Monsterdon

Lomax spends an inordinate amount of time shaving.

#Monsterdon #QuatermassXperiment

ow WOW what a kill for 1955

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wow, bloodless but still grisly, not bad

#monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

he craves that aloe vera

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Pretty sure my wife would bust me out of hospital if the need arose...

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I love watching movies of people watching movies. #Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

Kubrick stole this shot!

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your husband is turning to jello and that's cool as fuck! can you not see that, you woman? hysterical!

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

he looks pretty non-jelly to me idk

#Monsterdon #TheQuatermassXperiment

something happened in here

:neofox_gasp: no fuken wai

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Bunsen burners mean Science

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@bstacey Quatermusk made a big fuss over the fact that they took the fingerprints when the man was unconscious and he didn't like that.

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"Mightn't I" isn't a phrase you hear much anymore.

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Oh neat, we have GOO! #Monsterdon

Dude’s got a bad case of timpani-heart

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dramatic camera push-in

"Thanks."

Thanks for that shot, numbnuts

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"There's been a change in his bones, I'm convinced of that."

"Well, we DID make him faaaabulous with extra high cheekbones!"

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Chief Inspector Lomax speaks for the Trees?

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lol Quatermass is such a dick!

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Successful mission. Depending on how you define successful…and mission.
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