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Plot Summary:
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A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open it, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all of humanity. |
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Filming Locations: (Now With Clickable Links To Location On Google Maps)
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Tech Info:
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- Budget:
- $3,000,000
- Revenue:
- $14,182,492
- Color Info:
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Color (DeLuxe)
- Laboratory:
- DeLuxe
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- Aspect Ratio:
- 2.35 : 1
- Cinematographic Process:
- Panavision
- Film Negative Format:
- 35 mm
- Printed Film Format:
- 35 mm
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Quotes:
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[Birack teaches a class on quantum physics.]
Professor Edward Birack: Let's talk about our beliefs, and what we can learn about them. We believe nature is solid, and time a constant. Matter has substance and time a direction. There is truth in flesh and the solid ground. The wind may be invisible, but it's real. Smoke, fire, water, light -- they're different! Not as to stone or steel, but they're tangible. And we assume time is narrow because it is as a clock -- one second is one second for everyone! Cause precedes effect -- fruit rots, water flows downstream. We're born, we age, we die. The reverse NEVER happens. ...None of this is true! Say goodbye to classical reality, because our logic collapses on the subatomic level ... into ghosts and shadows.
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[Walter is studying quantum physics.]
Walter: Why do I want a Ph.D. in this?
Catherine: Particle beam weapons, research grants...
Walter: A millionaire when I'm forty! Now I remember!
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[Wyndham is being consumed by beetles.]
Wyndham: I've got a message for you, and you're not going to like it. "Pray for death."
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Kelly: Hello? I'm opening the door, if you want to stop what you're doing and put your clothes on!
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[Birack teaches a class on quantum physics.]
Professor Edward Birack: From Job's friends insisting that the good are rewarded and the wicked punished, to the scientists of the 1930's proving to their horror the theorem that not everything can be proved, we've sought to impose order on the universe. But we've discovered something very surprising: while order DOES exist in the universe, it is not at all what we had in mind!
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Trivia:
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- Screenwriter John Carpenter is credited as "Martin Quatermass". The pseudonym is a homage to Professor Bernard Quatermass, the lead character of The Quatermass Experiment and several subsequent TV series and film versions.
- Donald Pleasence's character, Father Loomis, is named after the character he played in the Halloween movies.
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