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X the Unknown
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A 1956 Hammer Horror venture into Sci-Fi Horror, directed by Leslie Norman,note with uncredited direction by Joseph Losey perhaps best known for Dunkirk (1958), and written by prolific Hammer writer Jimmy Sangster.On a quarry by the Scottish village of Lochside, soldiers undergo a radiation detection exercise. Sapper Lancing (Kenneth Cope) finds an unexpectedly strong radiation emission. With a small explosion, the earth above it splits apart in an indeterminately deep fissure, giving Lancing radiation burns. From a nearby branch of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Dr. Adam Royston (Dean Jagger) is called to investigate.That night, local boy Willie Harding (Michael Brook), on a dare, meets something in the woods which gives him similar burns to Lancing. Royston then finds his workshop to have been raided, with a trinium sample drained of radioactivity. Inspector McGill (Leo McKern) learns that several people have died in bizarre circumstances — in which their bodies appear to have melted. So begins the search for "X", an assailant which can cross barred windows, absorb radiation, and leaves traces of radioactive mud... | |
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Kid Amid the Chaos | |
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Kid Amid the Chaos: An infant girl, innocently oblivious to the danger, nears a crumbling churchyard wall, behind which approaches the colossal radioactive predator, and is narrowly pulled to safety by the reverend. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Captain Ersatz: After the success of The Quatermass Xperiment, Hammer immediately wanted to make a sequel. However, they couldn't get the rights however, so they made X the Unknown, giving it an extremely similar plot-structure and atmosphere to the first and a highly Quatermass-like hero in Dr. Royston. | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: Willie eventually dies of radiation burns. | |
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Impending Doom P.O.V. | |
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Impending Doom P.O.V.: From the perspective of something large and fast, we see the terrified young Willie. And later, Unwin. | |
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| X the Unknown / int_326c4b4f | type |
Scare Dare | |
| X the Unknown / int_326c4b4f | comment |
Scare Dare: Young Ian and Willie dare each other to separately visit an isolated tower. Unfortunately, the nearby woods hold something rather more sinister... | |
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Don't Go in the Woods | |
| X the Unknown / int_34c6ed8 | comment |
Don't Go in the Woods: Young Ian Osbourne and Willie Harding, on a mutual dare in the local woods, encounter X. | |
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Screaming Woman | |
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Screaming Woman: Played for Horror with Nurse Zena when Unwin is horrifically killed. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: Some lovely shots of the village and surrounding landscape. | |
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| X the Unknown / int_504a1991 | type |
Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: When an enlarged X seeps through a ventilation shaft into the hospital, contact with its radioactive body melts off the bone the flesh of Unwin. | |
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Friend to All Children | |
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Friend to All Children: Dr. Royston gently coaxes information from traumatized young Ian Osborn. | |
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Eagleland | |
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Eagleland: Averted with Dr. Royston. | |
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Power Glows | |
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Power Glows: A radiation-engorged X starts to brilliantly glow. | |
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Agent Scully | |
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Agent Scully: Administrator John Elliot, impatient with Dr. Royston's ambitious experiments, staunchly doubts the emergence of a subterranean predator. | |
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Dug Too Deep | |
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Dug Too Deep: Albeit inadvertently and indirectly — from two thousand miles underground, X emerges in search of radiation. | |
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Creepy Cave | |
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Creepy Cave: Lowered deep into the fissure from which X emerged, Peter finds skeletal human remains. | |
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The Apprentice | |
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The Apprentice: Young Peter Elliot aims to follow the work of Dr. Royston. His note of a possible cause of test failure persuades Dr. Royston to try field use of the radiation scanners. | |
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| X the Unknown / int_99db72ee | type |
Immune to Bullets | |
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Immune to Bullets: X, being a gigantic dollop of sentient, radioactive mud. | |
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Family-Unfriendly Death | |
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Family-Unfriendly Death: Proximity to X boils away the facial flesh of Unwin, revealing the skull beneath. | |
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Nuclear Mutant | |
| X the Unknown / int_9d67ad5c | comment |
Nuclear Mutant: Dr. Royston deduces X to be of a species which, as Earth grew less radioactive, withdrew to the core. Roused by a cyclical gravitational tilt, it emerges in search of a recent abundance of radiation. | |
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Muck Monster | |
| X the Unknown / int_9e37daa5 | comment |
Muck Monster: Radioactive mud! | |
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| X the Unknown / int_a4070b5e | type |
Stripped to the Bone | |
| X the Unknown / int_a4070b5e | comment |
Stripped to the Bone: Exposure to the rapidly growing X causes human flesh to melt off the bones. | |
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| X the Unknown / int_b1ce5419 | type |
The Brigadier | |
| X the Unknown / int_b1ce5419 | comment |
The Brigadier: Major Cartwright is readily cooperative with Dr. Royston and co. In a police variant, Inspector McGill supports Dr. Royston's evaluation of the bizarre threat. | |
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| X the Unknown / int_b55e8979 | type |
Science Hero | |
| X the Unknown / int_b55e8979 | comment |
Science Hero: Dr. Adam Royston, in an attempt to neutralize radioactivity via two rotating scanners, manages to direct the principal against X. | |
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Heroic Willpower | |
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Heroic Willpower: A guard, rapidly succumbing to the nearing X's radiation, manages, before dying, to sound the fire alarm. | |
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It Won't Turn Off | |
| X the Unknown / int_cc82b744 | comment |
It Won't Turn Off: The hospital radiation room equipment suddenly unaccountably activates — X has seeped in through a grill. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
| X the Unknown / int_cdfe12c3 | comment |
Nothing Is Scarier: Little is seen of the mysterious attacks until later on. | |
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Good Shepherd | |
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Good Shepherd: The village reverend conscientiously steers villagers to the relative safety of the church and, when X approaches, pulls a small girl to safety. | |
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Magma Man | |
| X the Unknown / int_d7ab1a98 | comment |
Magma Man: To absorb a hospital-stored radium sample, X melts open a safe. | |
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Let X Be the Unknown | |
| X the Unknown / int_d99fdd5e | comment |
Let X Be the Unknown: Obviously, since no-one's encountered anything like this before. | |
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Freud Was Right | |
| X the Unknown / int_eb24d076 | comment |
Freud Was Right: In Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film, Peter Hutchings notes parallel of a monster released by a crack in the earth with, in the recent The Quatermass Xperiment, a mutation spread by a crashed rocket. | |
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Blob Monster | |
| X the Unknown / int_ee19d278 | comment |
Blob Monster: A living blob of amorphous earthen matter, X, descendant of a species which evolved on a radioactive Earth, emerges from miles beneath the ground in search of a recent abundance of radiation. It can slip through window bars and ventilation grills and grows to colossal size. | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns | |
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Shoo Out the Clowns: Jovially bantering LCpl "Spider" Webb and "Haggis", stationed alone on the nightly quarry, have a run-in with X. | |
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Dug Too Deep / int_fce80d77 | |
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Good Shepherd / int_fce80d77 | |
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I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder / int_fce80d77 | |
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Let X Be the Unknown / int_fce80d77 | |
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Monster Media / int_fce80d77 | |
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Nuclear Mutant / int_fce80d77 | |
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Sci-Fi Horror / int_fce80d77 | |
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Science Hero / int_fce80d77 | |
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Stripped to the Bone / int_fce80d77 | |
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The Brigadier / int_fce80d77 |
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