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The Creeping Flesh

"A terrifying journey through the nightmare worlds of evil, insanity and terrible revenge."

1973-02-12 Horror 1hr 32m

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.

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Storyline

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.

  • Released
    1973-02-12
  • Revenue
    n/a
  • Budget
    n/a
  • Runtime
    1hr 32m
  • Genre
    Horror, Science Fiction
  • Status
    Released
  • Language
    English
  • imdb-logo
    6.1
  • Production
    World Film Services, Tigon British Film Productions

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Cast

Peter Cushing

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Emmanuel Hildern
Lorna Heilbron

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Penelope Hildern
Christopher Lee

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James Hildern
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A Review by talisencrw 8

Written by talisencrw on 2016-05-09

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 ... read more

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...

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A Review by Geronimo1967 6

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2023-05-27

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 throu... read more

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 (human ones). When they get wet, they reanimate into a rather nasty skeleton that wreaks havoc. Determined to stop this evil from spreading, the professor tries to use it's blood to immunise his young daughter from it's effects - bad move! Meantime, his half-brother Christopher Lee - who has been supervising the care of his sibling's mentally ill wife for some years, has his own agenda not just for the treatment of the wifely insanity, but also for our marauding bundle of bones. The script offers us just a little too much half-baked, amateur psychology but there is still enough gravitas delivered by Messrs. Cushing and Lee to make the conclusion worth the wait. This genre was losing it's appeal by 1973, the colour photography robbing the storyline of much of its eeriness and jeopardy and at times this looks more akin to a "Sherlock Holmes" style of investigative costume drama, but it is still worth a watch.

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A Review by 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 ...

reviewer avatar

A Review by talisencrw 8

Written by talisencrw on 2016-05-09

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 dis...

read more
reviewer avatar

A Review by Geronimo1967 6

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2023-05-27

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 mor...

read more