“Never trust someone with skin problems:”

“The second of the Quatermass films (the first was THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT, the “X” used to emphasise the adult X-rating the film received on its initial release) was allowed a slightly larger budget and benefited enormously from Nigel Kneale’s participation in the screenplay. In this film, at least Brian Donlevy behaves a little more like Quatermass ought to, though I still don’t think he was right for the part.

For my money, Quatermass should be a pipe-smoking English boffin with leather patches sewn on the elbows of his jacket. The original character was conceived as a kind of Barnes Wallis type, as portrayed by Michael Redgrave in THE DAM BUSTERS.

The movie is set in a post-war Britain that was a little panicked by the idea of nuclear weapons and even more unsettled by the knowledge that our former allies, The Soviets, had the same weapons and they were pointed at us. This was the climate that gave us Orwell’s 1984 and Don Siegel’s INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. Paranoia was out to get us …

This same atmosphere lasted well into the 1960s and can also be glimpsed in TV shows like THE AVENGERS. This was the era I grew up in, so I speak from personal experience 🙂

This movie is one of Hammer’s better offerings of the period. Released the same year as CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, it more than holds its own against the other, better-known Hammer colour offerings. Indeed, it benefits from its monochrome photography, which brilliantly communicates the austerity of the years immediately following WWII.

Thoroughly recommended, this film will appeal to anyone who can get beyond the admittedly primitive 1950s special effects to be rewarded by the rich and clever story that lies beneath the slightly dodgy veneer …”

 

For our Barocca appreciators here at Unherdables:

(1041) Morning all in the light, such as it is … another Gates sky. Time for elevenses. (1117)

 

15. Awwwww

14. Meanwhile, if you be wondering what Julia and I get up to

… in our spare time:

13. We have the finest commenters

… so does AKH:

12. IYE

Want to know who is watching you and where from? “The Secret Inner Sanctum of Trafalgar Square”

[ I’d really think twice about joining in any kind of demo in that vicinity]

……

JH: A word to our other posters … I did post that as a url only … it expanded itself ten minutes ago.

11. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-brazen-arrogance-of-worthless.html

 

(0707) Still dark, weather report later. (0802)

 

10. Moosh corner

9. Generational behaviours are a good indicator

… of who said what and why, why this or that was being pushed.

I took it one or two steps further … If I can say that a certain generation is from 45 to 28 today, Tuesday, another is currently 11 to 28, another 62 down to 45 … and that the 17 year gap is a fair model (give or take 2 or 3 years overlap) post-ww2 but that it doesn’t quite work that way 1890 to 1946 … that’s a conclusion after much study.

Refining it further, there’s a case for dividing it in two … that 1946 to 1955/6 are one lot and 1955/6 to 1963, Generation Jones according to some American analysts, is another, more aligned with Gen X, more complicated and prog, while the first is still Happy Days … I’ve started thinking late Boomer/early Gen X for so eone born 1959 to 1965, say.

And I’ve already put the case for decades being more properly, culturally in the west … mid 50s to mid 60s, mid 60s to mid 70s and so on … rather than from the top of each decade till the next.

Then there’s who are which gen’s children … for example, a Boomer from 1955 has a child … when? Let’s say at 24 years of age. That child is cusp Gen X/Millennial. It’s not so that mid Boomer has a mid Millennial child … those half generations become important in any demographic study. If my preferred popular music is 1955 to 1965, then how does that place me, Gen wise?

8. One hopes that these are the first steps towards EU disintegration

7. Rare for me to put the case for men

… but true to form, I do it through a woman’s words:

Men don't ask much because.. pic.twitter.com/UnZhJSAL2S

— Modern Dad (@ModernxDad) December 15, 2025

6. Via Steve

(0619) Was up at 0530 but was corresponding. Morning all.

ddddd

3. Steve at 1233

• Trump Signs Executive Order to Designate Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction as Offensive Against Venezuelan Narcotraffickers Escalates
• Chile’s New Right-wing President Jose Antonio Kast Makes Liberty Advance Over Socialism in Latin America
• Fake NATO concession. Salvini, Italy not at war with Russia. VW makes history. Elections Chile
• Serial slaughter of herds: the peasantry massacred, the French line up behind those who feed them
• EU set to scrap 2035 combustion engine ban after industry pressure
• Bondi Beach Bloodbath: What Lit The Fuse?
• Much more.

2. The question of Odessa

1. DAD at 1233

a) A practicing Catholic and father of nine, José Antonio Kast won 58.2% of the vote in the second round of the Chilean presidential election on Sunday, December 14, a resounding victory over the communist candidate Jeannette Jara (41.8%).

b) More on the resturant that has a separate room for females, but “is nothing to do with Isl@m” – it also has an Isl@mic prayer room.

c) Here is the next step in Global Control. TikTok ban for under-15s in France: “We are looking closely at the example of Australia,” says MP Anne Genetet.

d) French Farmers Cry Foul. Rebellious farmers do not understand why armoured vehicles are sent to them and never to suburban rioters.

e) Attorney Aissaoui, who represents several drug traffickers, was expelled from the high-security prison in Condé-sur-Sarthe after concealing objects in his private parts. This is not the first time the criminal lawyer has attempted to smuggle objects into the prison.

(1727) Evening all. Sorry to be so late but I got carried away checking out films and … er … watched them.

 

21. Hold the horses

20. Uncle Bulgaria

19. Moosh corner

18. Wall Street Apes

17. IYE and weird 33s

HERE

16. Steve corner

a. Hearts of Oak at 1233: Ben Habib.

b. Airmiles:

Evil clown world – we mustn’t forget airmiles, he’s one of them … from Grouebeater:

c. Respect plod today – not so much of that down under these days, especially after its heavy-handed approach to policing throughout the Plandemic – which included the use of directed energy weapons. Looking at the pump action shotguns used by the two jihadists I’m thinking 12-gauge and double-aught buckshot. The number of fatalities/injured would suggest the use of such a load. Typically each pellet is 0.33″ diameter and is 50 grains in weight. Back in the day we used this load in our Ithaca pumps for jungle patrols, point man carrying. Perfect in close vegetation they’ll drop a tiger. You can see the effect in this video:

Shotgun 00 Buckshot Ballistic Gel Test |

HERE

d. War room at 1233:

• Bannon: I Don’t Think It Ever Crossed The Prime Minister Of Australia’s Lips That This Attack Was Radical Islamic Jihad
• John Case: Since President Trump’s Pardon, Tina Peters Has Been Moved To New Solitary Confinement With A Constant Detail Of Four Special COs Everywhere She Goes
• Bannon: Maduro Steals Elections With Machines, And Tina Peters Is Jailed For Exposing the EXact Same System!
• Todd Wood: I Am Told By Local Law Enforcement That This Acid Attack Victim Was Targeted

 

1. The ancient Greek Histria is thought to be site of which newer city founded by Russia?
2. In 1794, Catherine ordered a naval base to be built in which city?
3. In 1946, which secret organisation was said to help SS officers escape to other lands?
4. Which Russian city is a girl’s name of old, meaning Long Journey?
5. Long journey, also called odyssey, gives which city name, anglicised with two esses?
6. Which city has the great stone staircase of the Potemkin uprising?

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Noel