Suitable for ages 12+
The film duration is 1 hour and 25 minutes and includes closed captions.
On the occasion of Danielle Dean’s exhibition, This Could All Be Yours!, Spike Island presents a screening of Quatermass II, a science-fiction B-film shot in Hemel Hempstead in 1957, which inspired Dean’s film Hemel (2024).
The plot of Quatermass II revolves around the arrival of a non-human entity that infiltrates the minds and residents, endangering life with a toxic black slime from outer space, which was cultivated in a local factory by workers. Eventually, the workers become possessed by this alien life form and the black mass expands and threatens to destroy the town.
Taking inspiration from the premise and production of Quatermass II (1957), Dean’s Hemel (2024) re-imagines and re-enacts the very town in which the 1957 film was made reflecting on deep fears re-emerging around the world based on racism, job scarcity and the return of extreme nationalist ideologies.
6:00pm – doors open
6.15pm – Quatermass II starts
7.40pm – film ends
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