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The Quatermass Experiment
UK 2005
produced by
Bill Boyes, Richard Fell (executive) for BBC
directed by Sam Miller
starring Jason Flemyng, Adrian Dunbar, Mark Gatiss, David Tennant, Indira Varma, Andrew Tiernan, Adrian Bower, Isla Blair, Paul Broughton, Stephen Boxer, Matthew Flynn, Carsten Hayes, Jane Hill, Tracy O'Flaherty, Greg Sheffield, Andy de la Tour, Kerry Godliman, Robert Horwell, Suzan Sylbester, Lucy Evans, Alex Robertson, Richard Huw, Andrew Scott, John Kirk
screenplay by Richard Fell, adapted from the original screenplay by Nigel Kneale, created by Nigel Kneale, music by Tim Atack, special effects by Nick Rideout/Elements Special Effects
TV-show
Quatermass, BBC's Quatermass
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Professor Quatermass (Jason Flemyng) has sent three men into outer
space on the first privately financed British spaceflight, but oddly
enough, only one of them, Caroon (Andrew Tiernan), returns, and even more
oddly, he seems to combine characteristics of all three men ... and of
something else. As Quatermass, together with Doctor Briscoe (David
Tennant), detective Lomax (Adrian Dunbar) and his own rebellious
right-hand man Paterson (Mark Gatiss), still tries to figure out what's
going on, Caroon, who is now clearly mutating into whatever-it-is, escapes
Quatermass's lab and terrorizes half of London. Ultimately though he can
be cornered in a warehouse, and while the army wants to blow the place up,
Quatermass decides to go face-to-face with the creature that once was
Caroon (and possibly hiw co-astronauts as well) and persuade Caroon, who's
still in there somewhere, to fight
what has to be an alien parasite. Utlimately, Quatermass succeeds, too ... A
remake of the famed BBC-serial The
Quatermass Experiment from 1953, this one was recorded live, just
like its predecessor - yet the new 90+ minutes TV movie features none of
the excitement of the miniseries of old, mainly it's just characters
talking and waiting for something to happen ... yet very little does
happen, the mutant from space does little more than kill a few fish
(off-screen) and wreck a chemist's place. The rest of the film is filled
with a busload of unnecessary subplots that were necessary to allow the
actors to get from one set to the next (remember, the whole thing was
broadcast live), until everything culminates in a climax that's a big
letdown - it's just a long monologue by Jason Flemyng that might be
well-acted, but it's terribly scripted. And speaking of Jason Flemyng in
the lead: He does give proof that he's a capable actor - but he simply
isn't Quatermass, he's much too handsome, too tall, too heroic to be the
ruthless, self-absorbed and slightly bitter professor of the original (and
its sequels and remakes on the small and big screen). In all, the new Quatermass
Experiment proves one thing above all else: While television
technology might have improved vastly in the last 50 years, that doesn't
necessarily mean we get better programs, now does it?
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