The Creeping Flesh (1973)

5.9 ? Jan 01, 1973 1h 32m

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Overview

A Victorian scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones, unleashing a malevolent entity on the scientist's family and friends.

Overview

Genres

Horror Science Fiction

Release Date

January 01, 1973

Rating

5.9 /10

Runtime

1h 32m

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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

David Bailie

Young Doctor

Michael Ripper

Carter

Alexandra Dane

Bar Girl

Marianne Stone

Woman Doctor

Tony Wright

Sailor

Dan Meaden

Lunatic

Maurice Bush

Karl

Martin Carroll

Warder

talisencrw

8.0/10

May 09, 2016

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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CinemaSerf

6.0/10

May 27, 2023

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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