#104 The Quatermass Conclusion (1979) with Simon Clark and Spider-Dan

AKA Clark on Quatermass #2: The 1979 Novel

 

This is the second episode we've released in which award-winning author Simon Clark (@HotelMidnight) pops on to talk to Dan about their mutual hero, writer Nigel Kneale.  In the earlier episode they discussed Kneale's script books of the 1950s Quatermass TV serials; here they discuss Kneale's 1979 follow-up novel, Quatermass.  To preface this discussion, and with the kind blessing of our good friend Spider-Dan, we also present a re-edited 2022 episode from the splendid podcast Spider-Dan and the Secret Bores.  In this episode Dan discussed the 1979 theatrical film The Quatermass Conclusion, on which the novel was (sort of) based, and this chat gives excellent context for the discussion with Simon, so it comes first.

Beware - spoilers for Quatermass/The Quatermass Conclusion (novel, series and film) and Quatermass and the Pit.

 

Works Cited

 

The Quatermass Conclusion (Euston Films, UK 1979, director: Piers Haggard

Quatermass (Thames Television, UK 1979) - streaming on ITVX in the UK

The Quatermass Xperiment (Exclusive Films/Hammer, UK 1955) - Dan and Howard's discussion

The Quatermass Experiment/Quatermass II/Quatermass and the Pit (BBC Television, UK 1953/55/58) - Simon Clark on the script books

Quatermass and the Pit (Twentieth Century Fox/Hammer, UK 1967, director: Roy Ward Baker)

A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (BBC Television, UK 2010, directors: John Das & Rachel Jardine) - currently available on Amazon Prime in the UK

Shudder's folk horror documentary mentioned by Spider-Dan is Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched (Severin Films, US 2021, director: Kier-La Janisse)

Spider-Dan appears throughout our Halloween retrospective series and also to discuss The Black Cat He is on BlueSky as @secretbores.bsky.social

What We Do In The Shadows (FX TV, USA 2019-23, Creator: Jemaine Clement) is streaming on Disney+ - our episode

 

Artwork by Kirsty Worrow (Instagram: OneCrowLeft).  Music by Greg Hulme.

 

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