# Quatermass 2 (1957)

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**Runtime**: 85 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Horror
**Directed by**: Val Guest
**Written by**: Nigel Kneale, Val Guest
**Starring**: Brian Donlevy, John Longden, William Franklyn, Bryan Forbes, Charles Lloyd Pack, Tom Chatto

> *A horrible enemy from the unknown strikes terror across the earth!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Rain lashes a chain-link fence at dusk.  
Concrete silos rise in the moor, pocked by oily black spheres that burst in the night.  
Like a Cold War panic attack shot in newsreel gray.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid

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