X THE UNKNOWN

X THE UNKNOWN
   Film (1956). Hammer/Warner Bros. Dir Leslie Norman (replacing Joseph Walton), starring Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, William Lucas, Leo McKern, Anthony Newley. Screenplay Jimmy Sangster. 86 mins, cut to 78 mins in the USA. B/w.
   In this Hammer sf/ HORROR film made soon after the success of their The QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (1955) - the"X" in both cases being intended to signal unimaginable horrors, as in X-rated (adults only) movies - a radioactive blob, a sort of primal, semi-fluid, living creature brought to the surface by tidal pressures in Earth's core, emerges near a village in Scotland and heads for the nearest source of radioactivity, melting people who get in its way. It is a tense, low-budget thriller, with both Jagger and McKern good, one as a scientist, the other as an investigator from the Atomic Energy Commission. The anxious atmosphere is amplified by moody photography, with many sequences shot at night. Routine in concept, the film is well above average in execution.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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