X... the Unknown
Guión:
Jimmy SangsterCámara:
Gerald GibbsMúsica:
James BernardReparto:
Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern, Anthony Newley, Peter Hammond, Ian MacNaughton, Kenneth Cope, Philip Levene, Edward Judd, Brown Derby, Shaw Taylor (más)Streaming (1)
Sinopsis(1)
En una zona rural, se descubre una fuente de radiación potentísima, y el ejército junto con varios científicos acordonan la zona para investigar las causas de la radiación. Sin embargo, mientras están investigando, algo emerge del subsuelo y empieza a arrasar todo lo que encuentra a su paso, especialmente la energía eléctrica y radioactiva. El equipo de científicos debe ir contrarreloj para detener ese extraño y deforme fenómeno nunca antes visto por el hombre. (Filmin)
(más)Reseñas (2)
Poster tagline: IT KILLS, BUT IT CAN’T BE KILLED!! IT COMES OUT OF THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH TO DISSOLVE EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH!! NEITHER RIFLE BULLETS NOR FLAMETHROWERS CAN STOP IT!! After the success of the Quatermass franchise, the legendary Hammer studio made a few monster-horror movies, and this is one of them. There are several TV versions, because the cinema version was quite violent for its time, as the censors back then judged. So most TV copies don't show those scenes of people's faces melting. Nowadays that wouldn't shock anyone, but in its time people weren't used to it and it had a similarly shocking effect as, for example, The Monster of Piedras Blancas from the same era, where a severed human head appears in a close-up. Unfortunately, a minor problem with this otherwise likeable horror film is that it’s not very visually appealing. It all revolves around a muddy military training ground, with a few shots of a hospital and a science facility thrown in, and the first deadly slime doesn't fully appear until ten minutes before the end. Hollywood would have peppered it with some fancy effects, bombastic front or rear projections, but there's nothing like that here (apart from the very few seconds of shots of slime rolling down the streets) and the centre of the film, the muddy, rocky training ground, is not pretty to look at and not a magnet for nice camera shots. It's a shame, because the actors are otherwise likeable, and it all builds up nicely at the end, but the overall impression is so ....how to say ....sketchy. The low budget is simply more evident here than it should be.
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Ciencia ficción de terror británica de las películas de la Hammer sobre Bernard Quatermass, pero esta vez sin Quatermass, sino con una materia espacial radiactiva asesina que hace sonidos como un dosímetro enloquecido. Por desgracia, esta película no destaca demasiado y se toma su tiempo para revelar la forma de una babosa espacial (que es una especie de precursor sutil de la americana La masa devoradora). Aun así, es una ciencia ficción muy sólida que no ofenderá a nadie.
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