A terrifying journey through the nightmare worlds of evil, insanity, and terrible revenge.
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.
- Body horror
- Sexual violence
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · May 20236/10
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
Read the whole review on TMDB - talisencrwon TMDB · May 20168/10
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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Cast
- Peter CushingEmmanuel Hildern
- Lorna HeilbronPenelope Hildern
- Christopher LeeJames Hildern
- George BensonWaterlow
- Catherine FinnEmily
- Hedger WallaceDoctor Perry
- Duncan LamontInspector
- Kenneth J. WarrenCharles Lenny
- Larry TaylorChief Asylum Warder
- Harry LockeBarman
Crew
- Freddie FrancisDirector
- Peter SpenceleyScreenplay
- Jonathan RumboldScreenplay
- Norman WarwickDirector of Photography
- Paul FerrisOriginal Music Composer
- Oswald HafenrichterEditor
- Michael P. RedbournProducer
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