Enemies out of nowhere
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Enemies out of nowhere |
| Original title | Quatermass 2 |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1957 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 (formerly 18) |
| Rod | |
| Director | Val Guest |
| script |
Nigel Kneale Val Guest |
| production | Anthony Hinds |
| music | James Bernard |
| camera | Gerald Gibbs |
| cut | James Needs |
| occupation | |
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Enemies out of nowhere (original title: Quatermass 2 ) is in black and white twisted British science fiction - Horror of Val Guest from the year 1957 . The film produced by the Hammer Film Company is, after Schock (1955), the second part of the so-called Quatermass trilogy . As the first and subsequent third part Quatermass and the Pit (1967) based the film on the BBC - TV series Quatermass .
Professor Quatermass of the English space agency has to fend off an invasion of aliens who come in human form and have already infiltrated parts of the government and the authorities.
action
Quatermass is involved in an accident on a country road. The driver of the other car tells him that she was distracted by a stone that fell from the sky and injured her passenger. Quatermass takes the stone back to his laboratory. The investigation reveals that the stone, an artificial meteorite , is made of an unknown material and is hollow. While the professor is still busy with the analysis, his assistant observes on the radar screen that a meteor shower consisting of many small objects is falling.
Quatermass searches for the place where the objects landed and finds himself in a lonely area. He finds fragments of the meteorites near a strange industrial site. Quatermass is knocked down by a guard as he approaches the compound. The professor tries to call in the police to find out what the strange factory is all about. Whoever he turns to, nobody, neither the police nor the government, agrees to be investigated. The reason why Quatermass' request is rejected is that it is a secret project to artificially produce food for the developing world .
Quatermass doesn't give up and over time he realizes that the meteorites are a means of transport for aliens that are roughly the size of a coconut . They drop to earth from their mother ship, a kind of asteroid. The shell opens and the beings take over the first human body they encounter. The people taken over become puppets of the aliens. Large parts of the government, the administration, the military and the police have been taken over by the foreigners. Quatermass finds out that the aliens have a weak point. When exposed to a high concentration of oxygen , they die. The professor is now doing everything possible to destroy the aliens. He has the asteroid destroyed by a rocket. Cut off from their base, the aliens can be killed by oxygen. When all the aliens are destroyed, the people they took over also return to normal. Quatermass saved the world.
background
Enemies from Nowhere opened in British cinemas on June 17, 1957 and in German cinemas on July 12 of the same year .
Reviews
Variety rated the direction and script as "unclear" and the drawing of the characters as "clumsy". The industry journal only attested ingenuity to the special effects.
“A utopian horror film extremely nonsensical and disgusting variety. (Classification: For adults, with considerable reservations.) ”, Was the verdict of the German film service shortly after the film was released. In later years, the editors revised their judgment and discovered a “trivial science fiction entertainment that was appealing from a camera technology point of view”.
Publications
Enemies from Nowhere is available internationally on DVD , as is James Bernard's score , which has been repeatedly released on compilations .
Web links
- Enemies out of nowhere in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sound carrier with the film music
- Hans Schmid: We are the Martians , article on Heise.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Enemies out of nowhere in the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ a b Enemies from Nowhere in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ↑ Review in Variety from 1957, no details given, accessed November 26, 2012.
- ↑ 6000 films. Critical notes from the cinema years 1945 to 1958. Handbook V of the Catholic film criticism, 3rd edition, Verlag Haus Altenberg, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 111.