Corruption1968
“where will the bodies turn up next? ...under a car seat? ...in a valise? ...or in a deep-freeze?”
Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis
The premise
A surgeon discovers that he can restore the beauty to his girlfriend's scarred face by murdering other women and extracting fluids from their pituitary gland. However, the effects only last for a short time, so he has to kill more and more women. It is ultimately a killing spree which ends with considerable death and disaster.
Horror Vault's take
A respected surgeon becomes consumed by a desperate mission after his girlfriend suffers a devastating disfigurement — one he believes only he has the power to reverse. The cure he devises is monstrous, demanding increasingly terrible acts to sustain results that refuse to last. Peter Cushing delivers a compelling portrait of a brilliant man unraveling under the weight of his own obsession. This lean, mean British shocker pushes its proto-slasher premise into genuinely dark psychological territory.
Content: Violence Against Women, Graphic Surgical Content, Body Horror Imagery, Depictions Of Murder
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