The Quatermass Xperiment + post-screening discussion (PG)

Experience the sci-fi classic that put Hammer on the map: The Quatermass Xperiment returns to cinemas in a new 4K restoration for its 70th anniversary.

A space expedition takes a nightmarish turn when an astronaut crash-lands on Earth – only to begin mutating into something horrifyingly inhuman. As his transformation accelerates – and authorities race to understand the catastrophe unfolding before them – the astronaut’s struggle to contain violent urges proves increasingly futile.

Directed by Val Guest and based on Nigel Kneale’s cult television serial from 1953, The Quatermass Xperiment is an iconic piece of British genre cinema history. 
 
This special anniversary screening will be followed by a discussion hosted by Toby Hadoke and Andy Murray.

Toby Hadoke is an actor, writer and stand-up comedian: resident MC at XS Malarkey comedy club and host of Radio 4 Extra’s The 7th Dimension. His book about the making of TV’s The Quatermass Experiment was published in May 2025 by Ten Acre Films. 

Andy Murray is a writer, journalist and lecturer. An updated second edition of his Nigel Kneale biography, Into the Unknown, was published by Headpress in 2017.