X the Unknown (1956)
7/10
'My name is Mud - Radioactive Mud.'
13 October 2013
Warning: Spoilers
I saw 'Quatermass 2' (the film, not the series) once and that had a similar 'oily ooze monster' in it; that one was filmed partly in a Shell (yes, the oil company) location. This one wasn't, as far as I know, though both did come from the legendary Hammer Studios.

This is an enjoyable little horror sci-fi flick with some melting corpses, the aforementioned radioactive oily oozer, a brilliant, headstrong professor, some impressive army machinery, some scientific watchemecallits, and several 'look aghasted and scream into the camera'-victims. Some scenes are particularly cute, such as the ones with the mischievous boys and the wandering toddler. And, of course, there's lots of jibber jabber about the origins of the monsters and how to exactly - finally - destroy it. Och!

A small 7 out of 10.
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