Corruption

Corruption (1968)

where will the bodies turn up next? ...under a car seat? ...in a valise? ...or in a deep-freeze?

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.

Date of release
1968-07-19
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (49)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Horror
Director
Robert Hartford-Davis

Casting

Interesting facts

Corruption is a 1968 British horror film directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and starring Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd, Noel Trevarthen, Kate O'Mara, David Lodge, and Antony Booth. The screenplay is by Derek Ford and Donald Ford.

Production

The film was shot at Isleworth Studios, and on location at Hope Gap Beach in Seaford, East Sussex.

Due to the strong graphic content of the film, different markets around the world received different versions of key scenes, most notably the murder of a prostitute who appears topless in some markets (Scandinavia, South America, and East Asia), but is clothed in the version which played in the U.K. and U.S. The two versions feature different actresses in the role as well as different dialogue.

Cushing later said "It was gratuitously violent, fearfully sick. But it was a good script, which just goes to show how important the presentation is. The company that made the film split up halfway through as certain individuals could not agree on what should and should not appear in the final print. What you saw was the final result of their bickering.

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