Atomic Matinee on Instagram: "When The Quatermass Experiment (1955) shocked audiences, it didn’t give them a giant monster — it gave them body horror. This was one of the first sci-fi films where space travel itself is the threat. An astronaut returns to Earth… changed. The mutation effects were done with progressive latex makeup, adding veins, growths, and distortions scene by scene. The creature is almost never shown fully. Instead, Hammer Films used rubber membranes, slime effects, air bladde