X the Unknown (1956) (SF 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC 10bit AAC 1.0 Commentary) Leslie Norman Joseph Losey Dean Jagger Leo McKern Edward Chapman William Lucas Peter Hammond Anthony Newley Ian MacNaughton Michael Ripper John Harvey Kenneth Cope Brooke hq

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X: The Unknown

Horror Mystery Science Fiction

After a mysterious explosion leaves a large fissure in the ground, two young boys are confronted by an unknown phenomenon that inflicts severe radiation burns on one of them. There follows a spate of attacks at radiation establishments as the inexplicable life-form plunders radium stores. Dr Royston, an expert in atomic research, is brought in to explain and curtail the activities of this alien creature before it causes disaster.

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X the Unknown (1956), directed by Leslie Norman & Joseph Losey, Shout! Factory remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original theatrical mono, commentary track, and English subtitles.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049967/

Video encoded in two-pass 10.0 Mbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image. Audio encoded separately with Apple AAC for the highest-quality AAC sound available. Text subtitles converted to SRT, image subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.

Note : This film was pitched by screenwriter and later director Jimmy Sangster as a sequel to The Quatermass Xperiment, but Nigel Kneale nixed that idea, wanting to maintain control of the Quatermass character. Undeterred, Hammer produced the script anyway, with a Quatermass-like scientist as the lead, and it's pretty good, a fairly typical, but above average 50s sci-fi horror about a radioactive monster from the Earth's core, which is defeated not by the military and weapons, but scientific cleverness. It has a few clever effects, some of them pretty gruesome for the period, and a solid cast, mostly British, but lead by American Dean Jagger, and also including Leo McKern, William Lucas, Edward Chapman, John Harvey, and Michael Ripper.

In a field in Scotland (not to be confused with A Field in England), a group of soldiers are taking turns practicing with a geiger counter when a sudden explosion kills one of them and badly irradiates and burns another. A crack in the earth has opened up, and the military quickly cordons off the area and calls in Dr. Royston from the Atomic Energy Laboratory. He's later joined by McGill, who runs security at the Atomic Energy Commission, and together, they investigate. That night, a local boy sees something in the woods that scares him, and he's lethally irradiated. Several more people die after being exposed to an unseen horror, some of them straight up melting, and it's not until a scientist volunteers to be lowered into the crack that they discover the source of the occurrences, a radioactive blob from Earth's distant past which has survived in the depths.

This is a pretty good remaster, maybe a little overly bright, but with decent grain and sharpness, and not too much dirt or other blemishes. The mono track sounds fine, and the commentary track is fairly interesting.

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Audio #1 : AAC LC / 243 kb/s / 1 channel / Original theatrical mono / English / *Default
Audio #2 : AAC LC / 132 kb/s / 2 channels / Commentary by film historian/filmmaker Ted Newsom / English

Text #1 : SRT / 69.0 b/s / English
Text #2 : VobSub / 10.4 kb/s / English SDH

Chapters :
00:00:00.000 : Main Titles
00:07:39.209 : "Sounds Like Thunder"
00:12:33.378 : Dr. Adam Royston
00:17:44.146 : A Bottomless Pit
00:23:17.187 : Breaking an Oath
00:29:20.050 : The "Stolen" Container
00:35:35.258 : Death by Radiation
00:40:59.290 : Death Watch
00:45:31.479 : Royston's Theory
00:50:36.742 : Into the Fissure
00:59:16.803 : "It's on Its Way!"
01:09:57.944 : Return to the Fissure


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