Emmanuel Hildern
Peter Cushing
Emmanuel Hildern
The Creeping Flesh
“A terrifying journey through the nightmare worlds of evil, insanity, and terrible revenge.”
5.9
1973
1h 32m
HorrorScience Fiction
Director: Freddie Francis
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.
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Cast
Penelope Hildern
Lorna Heilbron
Penelope Hildern
James Hildern
Christopher Lee
James Hildern
Waterlow
George Benson
Waterlow
Emily
Catherine Finn
Emily
Doctor Perry
Hedger Wallace
Doctor Perry
Inspector
Duncan Lamont
Inspector
Charles Lenny
Kenneth J. Warren
Charles Lenny
Chief Asylum Warder
Larry Taylor
Chief Asylum Warder
Barman
Harry Locke
Barman
Young Aristocrat
Robert Swann
Young Aristocrat
Marguerite Hildern
Jenny Runacre
Marguerite Hildern
Reviews
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...
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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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