Time for our 1,200th review!
A large blob of radioactive slime threatens the world in this thrilling sci-fi horror.
A fissure opens at a quarry used by the British Army for radiation training, soon mysterious and horrific radiation related deaths occur. Radioactive materials also go missing, including from the lab of Dr Royston (Dean Jagger) and the local hospital X-ray department. Despite scepticism from his director Elliot (Edward Chapman), Royston thinks the thefts and deaths are due to some kind of inhuman force or life form from the bowels of the Earth.
Along with McGill (Leo McKern) from the Atomic police, Royston devises a plan to neutralise the radiation in the blob. However, with the blob's appetite for radiation growing is it too late?
Low budget but decent thrills. A very Quatermass like sci-fi horror, and quite gruesome at times. The plot is quite familiar and standard for films of the genre, but the script is taut and efficient and the film is rather good.
