The Quatermass Xperiment Limited Edition (UK Import) [4K Ultra HD + Region B Blu-ray]

Name: The Quatermass Xperiment Limited Edition (UK Import) [4K Ultra HD + Region B Blu-ray]
Brand: Hammer Films
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Hammer Films

The Quatermass Xperiment Limited Edition (UK Import) [4K Ultra HD + Region B Blu-ray]

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The BBC-content Blu-ray is Region B and requires a Region B or region-free Blu-ray player. The other included Blu-rays are region free.

The Quatermass Xperiment 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray presents the Hammer sci-fi landmark that redefined British genre cinema. Created by Nigel Kneale and directed by Val Guest, this tense tale of scientific ambition gone horribly wrong arrives newly restored in 4K, marking the first time the film has been available in this format.

When a space mission crash-lands back on Earth, only one astronaut survives — and he is no longer entirely human. As his body begins mutating into something monstrous, authorities scramble to contain the spreading horror before catastrophe engulfs the city. Blending science fiction with creeping body horror, The Quatermass Xperiment established Hammer as a major force in postwar cinema and remains a chilling milestone of 1950s filmmaking.

directed by: Val Guest
starring: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Richard Wordsworth, David King-Wood
1955 / 82 min / English / 1.66:1 / 1.37:1 / 1.85:1

Number of discs: 5

Product Details

Format	4K Ultra HD Region B Blu-ray
Included Blu-ray Region	Mixed / Varies
Label	Hammer Films

Special Features

Five-disc set: two UHD and three Blu-ray discs (Hammer content duplicated across formats; BBC serial content on Region B Blu-ray)

Three versions of the film:

1.66:1 UK theatrical version
1.37:1 as-filmed version
1.85:1 US theatrical version (The Creeping Unknown)

Brand-new 5.1 mix for 1.37:1 and 1.66:1 versions plus original mono soundtrack
English, French, Italian, Spanish and German subtitles
Leather-feel slipcase with debossed titling
Rigid inner box with new artwork by Graham Humphreys
Double-sided poster
Eight art cards (UK lobby card facsimiles)
180-page booklet with new and archival articles
56-page House of Hammer comic reprint

Multiple new and archival commentaries
The Legend of Nigel Kneale: The Creeping Unknown documentary
Unstoppable: Unleashing The Quatermass Xperiment feature
The Quatermass Experiment – remaining two episodes of the 1953 BBC serial (Region B Blu-ray)
Patient Zero featurette
Monstrous! featurette
The Eric Winstone Bandshow short
The Kneale Tapes documentary
Cartier and Kneale in Conversation
Making Demons feature
Val Guest interviews (2000 and 2003)
Exhuming The Quatermass Xperiment restoration feature
Original trailers, foreign titles, Super 8 cut-down versions and BBFC censor cards
Image galleries and score tracks
Quatermass and the Pit Omnibus Titles
TV series photo gallery