Review of The Creeping Flesh (1973) by Blais E — 02 Apr 2012
Wonderfully-eerie and rarely- seen horror flick in the gothic Hammer vein, even featuring its two greatest stars together once again. Peter Cushing stars as meek-and-mild scientist Dr. Emmanuel Hildern who has unearthed an enormous, aberrantly-humanoid skeleton and brings it back to his English Country estate for further research, unaware of its latent evil properties.
To his horror, he discovers that the frighteningly-fiendish-fossil find can regenerate tissue, veins, muscle---the titular "Creeping Flesh"---upon exposure to water. Needless to say, the heinous heap of bones winds up in the hands of his unscrupulous half-brother (Christopher Lee), and as he attempts to abscond with it, his coach overturns in a rain storm.
...you can probably fill in the rest! A well-produced, superbly-acted offbeat chiller.
This review of The Creeping Flesh (1973) was written by Blais E on 02 Apr 2012.
The Creeping Flesh has generally received mixed reviews.
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