ThiefHott Too much of everything

Steineded How sad is this?

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

dworldeater Corruption is a sleazy horror movie set in the swinging 60's in England starring the legendary Peter Cushing. Much different from the Gothic Hammer horror that he is known for, Corruption is set in a contemporary time and is a very colorful film with a jazzy score. This film is also pretty vicious and ahead of its time with regards to the sex and violence contained in it. Peter Cushing is a mild mannered doctor who has a beautiful fiance that is a model (Sue Lloyd) that got her face terribly disfigured in an unfortunate accident. Our good doctor discovers a way to restore his girl's beautiful face by taking a pituatary gland from other women, which under demand of soon to be mrs. sets Peter Cushing on a killing spree, slicing and dicing with bloody surgical precision, leaving the decapitated, bloody remains of unfortunate women in his wake. This sets this otherwise happy couple on a moral downward spiral, where the conflicted doctor kills at his wife's command in a process of restoring her face. While this is basically a low budget exploitation picture, Peter Cushing delivers an Oscar worthy performance as this layered and complex character's moral dillema and fall into psychosis and murder. This leads to a run in with a goofy, hippie gang that put our couple as victims of a home invasion that ends with a fight sequence with a surgical laser, for an appropriate and totally nihilistic ending. The hippie gang/ home invasion sequence reminds me of both A Clockwork Orange and Straw Dogs which this film predates by a couple of years. Corruption is a very dated and nasty film that is simultaniously a product of its time as well as being ahead of its time. Peter Cushing's performance is what makes this hold up and Corruption was a very shocking and extreme picture for its time.

Spikeopath Corruption is directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and written by Derek and Donald Ford. It stars Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd, Noel Trevarthen, Kate O'Mara and David Lodge. Music is by Bill McGuffie and cinematography by Peter Newbrook.When an accident badly scars the face of his young fiancée, skilled surgeon Sir John Rowan (Cushing) discovers a way to restore her face to normal by using a serum derived out of the pituitary gland. Unfortunately the treatment is only successful for a short period of time, and so the doctor is sent on a murderous spree of gland harvesting so as to keep his betrothed beautiful.Heads you win...I wasn't sure if I had been dreaming the other night? I found myself in the swanky and swinging 1960s, where mini-skirts and energetic dancing was the norm. Into this garishly flecked world was Peter Cushing as a mad surgeon type, cutting off heads, wrestling with naked women, hanging around with prostitutes. He has got a trophy wife, where Sue Lloyd is 26 years Peter's junior, and Sue is playing a conniving - come - psychotic - bitch. There was even some sort of bonkers laser weapon, and a home invasion sequence where carnage ensues, and all around is the faint whiff of Guignol excess, but the delirium is disgustingly enjoyable. A corruption of the soul most pleasing...But I did have a touch of influenza, dosed up to eyeballs with medicine and grain mash liquor, so I'm sure it was all a dream/nightmare/hallucination. But then again maybe not? 7/10

abdullah_canvey I saw this film 35 years ago in 1978 I was 15 it was on TV and it has stayed in my mind since, when I saw it I couldn't sleep for a week and the fridge that was staying shut, I haven't seen this film since but still remember a photo shoot light burning her face the train sequence and the head in the fridge, I suppose compared to today's graphic films this would be considered rubbish but at 15 it had a big impact on my life and I am still thinking and talking about it,I would like to see it again because I would probably laugh at why I couldn't sleep, HOPEFULLY. From what i remember it was a very basic storyline, girl gets face burned husband regrets and needs to kill women to keep his wife's skin good which only lasts a short time so needs to keep killing. Peter Cushing was again excellent and i always thought this was a hammer film production which i now know it isn't, all in all this film was probably rubbish which never see the light of day again but as a young man it had an impact on me that is still there age 50.

ShadeGrenade As the '60's swung, movies changed. Comedies became rude, action films bloodily violent, sex films explicit, and horror? Well, you can guess. 1968 saw the release of George A.Romero's 'Night Of The Living Dead', a landmark picture which pushed the genre to extremes. Even old school horror superstars such as Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing felt the need to keep up with the times. The latter later described 'Corruption' as 'fearfully sick', and he was right. In its most notorious scene, a woman searches a fridge for food, only to find a severed head wrapped in plastic.Peter plays Sir John Rowan, eminent surgeon. At a party in which his fiancée, model Lynn Nolan ( Sue Lloyd ) is present, he becomes involved in an argument with a brash photographer ( Anthony Booth ), culminating in a flood lamp accidentally being knocked over. The bulb burns away half of Lynn's face.Rowan had been experimenting with new surgical techniques that require the theft of a pituitary gland from a corpse in the morgue. A colleague, Steve ( Noel Trevarthen ) warns him that if he does anything like that again, he will report him. Her beauty restored, Lynn is a complete woman once more. Both she and Rowan set off for a round the world cruise. But the treatment turns out not to be permanent, and Lynn becomes disfigured once more. Rowan decides to steal the pituitary gland of a living person, necessitating the murder of a number of women...Donald and Derek Ford's script is like a swinging London version of 'Frankenstein', with butchery and blood amidst the false eyelashes and mini-skirts. But whereas the Baron was a misguided genius driven by concern for Humanity, Rowan is motivated by a selfish desire to see the woman he loves restores to her former glory. Cushing turns in his usual first-rate performance, complemented by Sue Lloyd, superb as the insane 'Lynn'. She does not care how many women her fiancée has to kill as long as she looks pretty again.The director, Robert Hartford-Davis, does a fair job, though I suspect the same script in the hands of Michael Reeves could have been a cult classic. I suppose we should give thanks the film was not bastardised the way 'Incense Of The Damned' ( based on Simon Raven's classy vampire novel 'Doctors Wear Scarlet' ) was. The scene where sadistic hippies ( among them the comedy actor David Lodge, playing a half-wit ) invade a cottage and terrorise the owners anticipates 'A Clockwork Orange' by three years.The version I have on D.V.D. lacks the murder of the Soho prostitute, and the train killing is much shorter. Perhaps Anchor Bay could find the missing footage and reinstate it?What really grabs you about 'Corruption' is the ending. For years, horror movies traditionally ended with the hero saving the leading lady in the nick of time from being burned alive in a vampire's castle or whatever, yet this ends with the entire cast wiped out by an out-of-control laser beam ( where clearly most of the budget went ), including Kate O'Mara who plays Lynn's goody-two shoes sister. We then go back to the trendy party we saw at the beginning, and a freeze-frame of Cushing's face suggests the horrible story is some sort of macabre premonition.'A most unworthy vehicle for Cushing's talents", sniffed one critic. Fair comment, but the great man could not give a bad performance if he tried, and the film is worth tracking down for that alone. Great Bill McGuffie soundtrack too.