SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

classicsoncall How can you go wrong with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in the same film? They appeared in movies together twenty two times; I don't know if that's a record or not, but it sounds pretty prolific to me. They're cast as half brothers in this flick, both on a course of determining the true nature of evil from slightly different angles, with Emmanuel (Cushing) seeking a cure for evil as a disease. This sounded to me a little like putting terrorists on trial as lawbreakers, with a lot of the same drawbacks.Hey, how about that escaped lunatic Lenny from the Hildern Institute for Mental Disorders. The actor, Kenneth J. Warren looked like he could have portrayed Russian dictator Nikita Khrushchev given the chance, or if you prefer, a reasonably whacky George 'The Animal' Steele. He just had the perfect look for those kinds of roles, and he fit right in here.Told in a flashback from the perspective of Professor Emmanuel Hildern, we don't know it when the movie opens that he's already become a patient of his brother James (Lee) three years earlier when the events of the story took place. If he had to do it again, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have injected daughter Penelope (Lorna Heilbron) with that anti-evil serum he concocted from the giant skeleton discovered in New Guinea. What was he thinking? And by the way, anyone else think that the head on that skeleton resembled the Predator that came along about a decade later? First thing I thought of.Well, with Penelope taking on her own mother's persona and the skeleton coming to life after the Sky God weeped, it was just a matter of time before the good doctor's plans for wiping out evil in the world came to an abrupt end. Produced by Tigon Pictures, this English film bears the hallmarks of it's competitor Hammer Films, right down to the principals and the Gothic feel of the sets and characters. One element the story could have done a better job of though, was explaining how the resurrected skeleton came by his Riding Hood gear.

GL84 Recovering a skeleton from New Guinea, a London doctor finds that the creature might be a possible missing link in human evolution only for the discovery of water to reanimate the body and tries to keep his friends and family safe from the news.This one turned out to be quite the fun effort. What really gives this one quite a lot to really like here is the fact that there's a great deal of fine backstory generated by the presence of the skeleton and what it really means which is rather intriguing. By allowing for the unique location in New Guinea, there's a believability granted here to what the attempted course of action of having the skeleton get reanimated with their knowledge of studying it, and that's a rather nice achievement here made all the more possible with the film's insistence on spending the vast majority of the time studying the creature. Coming up with the manners of study, which brings the fun scenes of him reviving the beast and the discovery of the creatures' blood that leads into the attempt to inject it into her which is what really drives the film along here with this one featuring some solid work here in the later half trying to find her as she ventures out into the world for the first time as the lead-in comes off very nicely getting it out of their laboratory. The resulting scene in the pub where she nearly gets assaulted and runs away leading to the chase through the streets and into the warehouse leads to some nice action scenes here as well, and the rather frantic finale here is even more fun with the abduction of the creature and the eventual reanimation of the skeleton inside while they're all completely unaware of the incident really makes for a much livelier and engaging effort than it really should be as the full-on Gothic sensibilities are brought about in full-force during this section which is what makes it so fun. Although these here make this one enjoyable enough, there's still some problems here in the fact that there's just not a whole lot of action to be had within this as a vast majority of the time this one doesn't really do much other than really helping to build the boredom of just watching the two fumble around their equipment spouting off tons of inane scientific babble that doesn't really focus on anything interesting. Though the film moves along at a decent-enough pace, these are just overall bland and dull which just don't have any kind of interest throughout here with the film really generating the kind of endless monotony of just staring at these scenes of nothing going on which just goes on quite a long time. Spiced within these scenes is another rather lame angle, with the film focusing on nothing but truly lame sub-plots to pad out the running time as there's little need for the scenes of the doctor wandering around the grounds complaining about his charges or focusing on the escaped mental patient that really has no place in the film and should've been taken out as it has no place in the film. Alongside the weak effects for the creature who looks like a mass of jelly walking around, these here are the film's weak points that lower it overall.Rated PG: Violence and an attempted Rape.

scarletheels In the late 19th century, scientist Emmanuel Hildern (Peter Cushing) returns home to London with a prehistoric skeleton that he acquired in Papua New Guinea. While cleaning the skeleton, he learns that water triggers a horrific reaction - reanimation. He slices off the finger, now covered in flesh, and preserves it for later experiments. While having breakfast with his daughter, Penelope (the breathtaking Lorna Heilbron), Emmanuel reads a letter informing him of his wife's death. Unbeknowst to Penelope, her mother has been in an insane asylum since she was a little girl. Fearful that his wife's mental illness may be hereditary, Emmanuel has sheltered his daughter at their estate with only the servants to keep her company. She's not allowed outside, except for short walks within the gated premises. Emmanuel travels to the institution where his wife died. He meets up with his half-brother, James (Christopher Lee), who happens to be the insane asylum's director and a competing scientist. Emmanuel was always the favorite of the two siblings, the one destined to achieve greatness, so it's with great pleasure that James tells him that he is in the running for the prestigious Richter Award. In addition, he will no longer fund Emmanuel's transcontinental trips. I'm not familiar with most horror predating 1980. I rate this somewhere between 60%-70% (about a 6.5/10). I've never watched a movie, horror or other genre, with so much anticipation and dread for what may come. The climax is truly a frightening one. The suspense is nail-biting! Lee and Cushing are great but it's the beautiful Heilbron who steals the show. I want to watch more films she stars in. I recommend this to horror fans who want to explore the classics. No gore, torture, or loud music cues to instill a false sense of fear. I liked it!

Witchfinder General 666 Horror deities Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are arguable the best acting-team that Horror cinema has ever known, their collaborations including Hammer Horror Classics such as "The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957), "Dracula" (1958), or "The Gorgon" (1964), as well as many other fantastic Horror films including "Horror Express" (1970). A production from the British Tigon company, "The Creeping Flesh" of 1973 is yet another great Gothic example for what a prefect duo of the uncanny the two Horror icons and real-life friends formed. After the Michael Reeves' masterpiece "Witchfinder General" (1968) starring the fellow Horror-deity Vincent Price, and Piers Haggard's "Blood on Satan's Claw" (1971), "The Creeping Flesh" is probably Tigon's third-best production.The ambitious but good-natured scientist Emannuel Hildern (Peter Cushing) discovers the skeleton of a supposed primate in New Guinea. Upon his return to England, however, suspicions arise that the skeleton may be infested with evil. In the meanwhile, Hildern's malevolent and cruel brother James (Christopher Lee), who leads an insane asylum, is keen on taking his brother's discovery away from him... Cushing and Lee are fantastic as always. Lorna Heilbron is also very good in the role of Cushing's innocent and beautiful daughter. The film's plot has been compared to that of Eugenio Martin's Cushing/Lee collaboration "Horror Express", and while I still prefer "Horror Express" over this one, I must say that "The Creeping Flesh" follows several additional ideas. The atmosphere is constantly creepy and the Victorian English settings and Gothic buildings make the prefect setting for a film of the kind (even though there have been greater locations in British Horror films, including most of Hammer's productions). Overall, "The Creeping Flesh" is an exquisitely entertaining and very creepy addition to the filmography of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and no lover of British Gothic Horror should miss it. Highly recommended!