“A terrifying journey through the nightmare worlds of evil, insanity, and terrible revenge.”
A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil, he is terrified that it will be passed on to their daughter. He tries to use the skeleton's blood to immunise her against this eventuality, but his attempt has anything but the desired result.
Freddie Francis
Michael P. Redbourn
Peter Spenceley
Jonathan Rumbold
Norman Warwick
Paul Ferris
Peter Cushing
Emmanuel Hildern
Lorna Heilbron
Penelope Hildern
Christopher Lee
James Hildern
George Benson
Waterlow
Catherine Finn
Emily
Hedger Wallace
Doctor Perry
Duncan Lamont
Inspector
Kenneth J. Warren
Charles Lenny
Larry Taylor
Chief Asylum Warder
Harry Locke
Barman
Robert Swann
Young Aristocrat
Jenny Runacre
Marguerite Hildern
... and 8 more
talisencrw
I love both the horror films of Britain's Hammer Studios and the pairings of Sir Peter Cushing and Sir Christopher Lee so very much. Though this is one of their latter and lesser-known, it doesn't disappoint. Very much worth purchasing and rewatches for the horror connoisseurs amongst you...
CinemaSerf
Right until the end, I was convinced that this was just a bit of nonsense. At the end, though, a great deal of it falls into place and through it still isn't really very good, this film made a lot more sense. In a nutshell, "Hildern" (Peter Cushing) returns from Papua New Guinea with some artefacts ...
"The Creeping Flesh" (1973) Trailer
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