The Quatermass Experiment

Based on a successful British television series, this film featuring the super-scientist Quatermass was Hammer's first international hit and moved the studio to do films in the sci-fi and horror genres. The plot involves the sole survivor of a rocket ship crash, Wordsworth, who comes back to Earth with a strange fungus on his hand. Put into isolation at a hospital in London, he finds the fungus beginning to consume him. He breaks out of the hospital and the fungus totally consumes him. The fungus-creature goes on a reign of terror, killing everything in sight and growing larger all the time. The monster becomes a national menace, and the army, police, and civil def...