X - The Unknown (1956)
I've always had mixed feelings about this film. Hammer's second foray into horror, but with heavy swathes of typical fifties science fiction. Ignoring the allegories of the Cold War and Britains standing in world power at the time, that it and the other two films in Hammer's sci-fi trilogy played around with (The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) and Quatermass II (1957)). X - The Unknown plays as an outstanding horror thriller with some extremely creaky Britishness thrown in. We swiftly go from flat caps, kitchen sinks and boys playing out, to melting faces and a wonderfully effective oozing, amorphous mass of a creature destroying all in it's path.
Hugely enjoyable, yet terribly of it's time. Recommended.
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