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Quatermass
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 Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:05 am Post subject: The Quatermass Serials... |
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Okay, so quite a few people may not have heard about these, but anyone with a good knowledge about British television and science fiction should know about these. If not, I'll give brief synopses, as well as links to Wikipedia, and what alien invasion archetype they fulfill. I recently obtained the DVD containing the first three Quatermass serials...
The Quatermass Experiment: A manned rocket sent up by the British Rocket Group, headed by Professor Bernard Quatermass, comes back after contact is lost. Out of three crew members, only one comes out of the rocket. The others have disappeared. And the remaining crewmember, Victor Caroon, appears to be infected by...something.
Alien Invasion Archetype: We go to them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quatermass_Experiment
Quatermass II: While despondent at the destruction an experimental nuclear rocket has wrought, Quatermass finds out about mysterious meteorites, and a mysterious, top-secret food-synthesis plant, one that is involved in a government conspiracy...
Alien Invasion Archetype: They come to us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_II
Quatermass and the Pit: While unusual fossils are found at a construction site in Hob's Lane, London, Quatermass has to deal with the British Rocket Group used for military purposes. But when his colleague Dr Roney asks him to help in the fossil dig, they uncover a deadly legacy from humanity's distant past...
Alien Invasion Archetype: They were always here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_and_the_Pit
Quatermass (aka The Quatermass Conclusion): Despondent at a society that is crumbling while money is wasted on space exploration, Quatermass is horrified when members of a cult disappear from a stone circle by a blast of light. The cult reckons that they're being transported to another world, but Quatermass knows that they are being harvested for food...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_%28TV_serial%29
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BigT
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I saw Quatermass and the Pit a few months ago, I thought it was really interesting. I found most of it genuinely tense. Some parts made me jump as well, I think.  |
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Quatermass
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| BigT wrote: | | I saw Quatermass and the Pit a few months ago, I thought it was really interesting. I found most of it genuinely tense. Some parts made me jump as well, I think. |
Yeah. Even though it's slower paced than even many Doctor Who stories that went on only 5 or 6 years later, it's pretty disturbing. While an easily good cliffhanger is when they discover the Martians in the spaceship at the end of part 3, my favourite, I have to say, is the end of part 4, when Sladden starts running for his life amidst all that 'poltergeist' activity, only to keel over at a church. And when the priest comes out, the ground starts rippling under Sladden's hands. And when you consider the fact that this story was done in 1958, the special effects still hold up today.
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