Hammer Scifi Horror: Quatermass II (1957)
“Quatermass II” takes the idea behind “The Quatermass Xperiment” and expands it from one man to an entire society. In the first film, something alien gets inside Victor Carroon and begins to transform him. Here, the invasion reaches into the institutions of British society itself. Strange meteorites are falling around Winnerden Flats, where a massive industrial complex is being built. Bernard Quatermass discovers that the complex has been constructed to produce food for alien creatures, and that important people in the government have already been taken over. The invasion is not something that might happen. It is already happening, and much of the country does not even realize it. That makes the film's horror different from the usual monster movie. The aliens do not simply arrive and attack. They get inside people and use them. Some of those people are clearly under their control, marked by the strange symbol on the back of the neck. Others are simply willing to go along with what...
