Quatermass 2 4K 1957 Ultra HD 2160p

Storyline
Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his project to colonize the Moon, is intrigued by the mysterious objects that have been showing up on his radar - meteorites crashing down to Earth? Following them to the place where they should be landing he finds a destroyed village, a mysterious factory too close to his designs for the Moon colony for comfort, and some strange objects containing a mysterious, ammonia-based gas that infects one of his assistants. Officially, the factory is producing synthetic food; but despite the veil of secrecy surrounding it Quatermass succeeds in finding out it harbours aliens with deadly designs on the Earth. Second in Hammer Films' trio of screen versions for Nigel Kneale's classic 1950s BBC serials, with the same director and star as 1955's "The Quatermass Experiment".

User Review

Quatermass is working on a project for a base on the moon, but the government keeps cutting funding. On his way back from another unpleasant conversation about costs, he encounters a man who has suffered a strange injury, like a burn, after picking up an object that fell from the sky. Intrigued, Quatermass orders his lab assistants to examine the object, which turns out to be a clearly man-made, controllable device with good aerodynamics and a hollow interior. In addition, their radar has detected the spread of such small objects nearby. Quatermass and his colleague head there and, behind fences with threatening inscriptions, see... a lunar base, exactly like the one in their project! But before they have a chance to take a closer look, guards in gas masks appear, drag away Quatermass's friend (who picked up another rocket object and got a cloud of some kind of gas in his face), and beat him up and chase him away. Trying to find out what this place is and what will happen to his friend, Quatermass discovers that absolutely no one wants to talk about this “synthetic food factory,” not even high-ranking government officials...

This is hardly the first, but undoubtedly one of the early works about the ‘hive mind’, as well as an early example of paranoid horror in cinema. Strangely enough, the somewhat naive straightforwardness characteristic of such old films actually improves the impression here; yes, it is obvious to us that the tour of the factory, where nothing is shown, no questions are allowed, and everyone smiles broadly all the time, is a trap, but the effect of the guide's ominous answer to one of the visitors' questions about whether they will be shown the domes, “Yes, we are taking you there,” is ultimately even stronger. In general, Gest very skillfully builds suspense—even when we already understand that the alien symbiotes have infiltrated everywhere, that is, it would seem, the worst has been revealed, he finds ways to keep the viewer in a state of excitement again and again. The cinematography is excellent—I like the ominous views of the empty factory, through which—in a precisely chosen part of the frame!—a lone human figure runs. Thanks to the cinematographer, I think, the aliens look so frighteningly effective—understand me correctly, this is the 1950s, and the aliens, as usual, are depicted as rubber robes, but these eerie shoggoths, masses of amorphous seething flesh, are presented very effectively.

It is interesting that here Quatermass plays a clearly positive role as an assertive but decisive defender of humanity who saves the day; this time, there are no ethical dilemmas surrounding him.

In short, I really liked ‘Quatermass 2’. I think even those who are not particularly fond of old horror and science fiction films will enjoy watching this movie.

Info Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (69.5 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1, 1.66:1, 1.37:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Info Audio

#English: FLAC 1.0
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
#German: DTS 2.0
#Italian: DTS 2.0

Info Subtitles