People are voting emotionally.

The acting in this movie is really good.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I hope that some producer out there will remake this excellent British SF film. The Quatermass films are one of the best SF films to come out of the UK. Quatermass 2 is the best. Almost all of the stars in this film have passed. Thanks for the film and the memories.Vera Day is the only one. A beautiful woman who starred in a another SF film "The Woman Eater". But according to her filmography she is still working in films. Nice to see that. Brian Donlevy, known for tough guy roles, was very credible in this film. All the rest, give the film the good support as actors. I just wish some producer would give it a shot and do a remake. There several UK films that are worthy of remake but this film deserves it.

While it comes across as a British spin on INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, what QUATERMASS 2 most brings to mind is an old, Pertwee-era episode of DOCTOR WHO; I'm thinking something like The Green Death, perhaps. There are too many similarities to be purely coincidental: a remote, scientific institution hiding dark secrets; faceless guards under the influence of some malign influence; unfriendly villagers; cheesy special effects; the dedicated scientist hero and his various companions. It goes without saying that if you're a DOCTOR WHO fan then you'll love this.I saw THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT some years ago and I remember it feeling very different to this movie. It was smaller scale, more homely, more intimate. QUATERMASS 2 feels more like it's trying to be an American movie, with stuff taking place on a much larger scale. The conspiracy storyline is very hackneyed these days but it's handled with wit and decent pacing here and as a whole this is a nice early outing for the newly-horrifying Hammer, even it is the lesser vehicle to both the first film and X THE UNKNOWN. The film is notable for Brian Donlevy's gruff, hard-headed turn as Quatermass and for the appearance of many familiar British supporting players, including Percy Herbert, Charles Lloyd Pack and Michael Ripper. There's also a decent, semi-serious role for Sid James to sink his teeth into, too!

Director Val Guest and actor Brian Donlevy returned for this sequel. Bernard Quatermmass has a plan to build a moon colony, but is called upon to investigate the mysterious landing of meteorites in the English countryside, near a village. He is startled to discover that a factory has been built nearby, where most of the villagers work, that is heavily guarded. He is told that it produces synthetic food, but comes to learn that it is really controlled by alien invaders who plan on world conquest. How can he and Inspector Lomax(now played by John Longden) stop this insidious plan? Worthy sequel with some violent and intense scenes, though the miscasting of the too-abrasive Brian Donlevy is again a big detriment. Too bad Patrick Troughton wasn't cast in this(and the first) instead!

In an episode of 'On The Buses', 'Stan Butler' ( Reg Varney ) insults his sister Olive's ( Anna Karen ) cooking by likening it to something out of 'Quatermass'. The very name had become a byword for something truly horrible. 'The Quatermass Experiment' was a B.B.C. science fiction series which made a huge impact in the '50's ( you have to remember that there was not much television sci-fi around back then ). Viewers were gripped by the terrifying Nigel Kneale-scripted tale of an astronaut who returns to Earth, and begins changing into a monster. Two sequels followed. A Hammer film version was made in 1956 - directed by Val Guest - with American Brian Donlevy replacing Reginald Tate as 'Professor Bernard Quatermass' of the British Rocket Group. It paved the way for Hammer's famous horror pictures, proving popular enough to justify a sequel - again starring Donlevy - the following year.'Quatermass 2' opens with our hero driving through countryside late at night when he is involved in a minor car accident. A young woman is taking her boyfriend to hospital. He was injured after coming into contact with a strange rock, which then burst open, leaving a ghastly mark on his face. The boy found the rock at Winnerden Flats. It is one of many meteorites which have been landing on Earth for months now. When the Professor arrives at the scene, he is astounded to find a factory patterned after the Moon base he had earlier proposed to the British government, but which they rejected. The factory is said to make 'synthetic food', and is protected by a wall of secrecy. Sinister security guards in gas masks patrol the place constantly, ready to kill trespassers. The domes contain an alien life-form that breathes ammonia. It intends taking over the world...Shot in stark black and white, 'Quatermass 2' comes across at times as a British 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers' with its theme of alien invaders taking over human beings. Guest achieves some genuinely scary sequences, most notably the tour of the factory which has one of the most horrific screen deaths of all time - 'Vincent Broadhead M.P.' ( Tom Chatto ) emerging from a dome covered from head to foot in corrosive poison. When Quatermass peers through a porthole into a dome, he sees a shapeless, seething mass which resembles vomit. Later, workers barricade themselves in the pressure room, but some are duped into surrendering. Moments later, their screams reverberate through the pipes. To stop the flow of oxygen to the domes ( which Quatermass initiated ), the aliens have used the workers' dead bodies to block the pipes. Angered, their friends open fire on the domes with anti-tank guns. Freed, the vomit-like creatures emerge...Kneale was unhappy with the casting of Donlevy; describing him as a 'bawling bully', and while another actor ( such as Peter Cushing ) probably might have been better, Donlevy's not too bad. A real surprise though is the casting of Sid James as seedy crime reporter 'Jimmy Hall'. William Franklyn and Bryan Forbes play Quatermass' colleagues. John Longdon replaces Jack Warner in the role of 'Inspector Lomax' of Scotland Yard.Quite a few films and television shows have, down the years, pinched ideas from 'Quatermass', most notably 'Dr.Who' in 1970 with 'Spearhead From Space'.The film gains impact from the factory sequences being shot at the Shell oil refinery in Essex. A frightening place even without the monsters. One flaw though - how do the ammonia breathing monsters manage to survive when the domes are destroyed?It would be a decade before Quatermass was seen on the big screen again - this time, in colour, in 'Quatermass & The Pit' ( 1967 ), starring Andrew Keir and James Donald.