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.

ferbs54 Did anyone else watch the true horror rarity that TCM showed recently? The film was "Corruption" (1968), and as a matter of fact, it is so rare that I had never even heard of it before. This film is another retread of the great French horror film from 1960, "Eyes Without a Face," but it branches off into different directions from that earlier classic. Here, the great Peter Cushing stars as a prominent surgeon who is dating a much younger woman, a fashion model (Sue Lloyd, whose work I had just admired in "The Ipcress File"). He attends a swinging party with her (yes, the film does take place during the swinging mod London of 1968) and gets into a fight with a fashion photographer there. During the fight, a floodlight crashes down on his girlfriend's face, burning and scarring her. Cushing swears to restore her looks. He removes the glands of a cadaver at his hospital and inserts the glandular fluid into his girlfriend's face, also using a laser in the process. The treatment works, but only temporarily, and Cushing soon realizes that he must procure glands from LIVING specimens. Thus, he murders one beautiful blonde woman while on a moving train, and, in his cottage in the country (beautiful shots of the White Cliffs are featured in the film), lures in a female hippie drifter to be his next victim. The picture ends with as bonkers a spectacle as one could wish for, with just about all the film's major characters, as well as some nasty house invaders, killed off by that wildly out-of-control laser beam. This film was directed by somebody named Robert Hartford-Davis, who does a marvelous job here. The print of this obscure movie that TCM showed the other night looks fantastic in wide screen, with brilliant colors and high-def images. I believe the film was recently issued on the Grindhouse Releasing label. Cushing, need I even say, is just terrific in this role as the doctor who becomes increasingly unhinged during his mission to restore his girlfriend's looks, only to repent when things have already gone too far. There is really no predicting where this bizarre film will turn next, and the picture surely does have some surprises up its sleeve...right up to those head-scratching final 30 seconds. Very much recommended for your viewing pleasure!!!

alistairc_2000 This movie stars Peter Cushing is from the sixties I think. The awful jazz soundtrack dates the movie as does the swinging 60s party.The story is that Cushing is a surgeon. He is winching (dating) this woman. She loves herself and at the swinging party she gets a camera light in napper (face). Being the utter bitch she is she just moans, oh my face my face. So Petey being the good chap he is works out how to get her face back. He gets a gland from other women and sticks it in his bird, but he needs more than one... so the death count keeps climbing.Although the plot is a bit predictable it is a classy movie. You have Cushing in a bit of an action hero mode, or should that be anti hero. The fights are well choreographed. Cushing is the perfect English Gentleman at the start of the movie but as time wheres on he gets more and more deranged.This movie should be watched as considering its age it is a nasty movie. There are no nice characters apart from Cushing in it. His woman is horrible throughout the movie. She is really good looking and that is probably what got he in love with her. A great period piece.

JasparLamarCrabb Among the wackier films starring Peter Cushing. Surgeon Cushing is forced to steal pituitary glands from women in order to restore the face of his maimed girlfriend Sue Lloyd. Lloyd, a swinging model, becomes more and more demanding as her face gets more and more scarred. There's plenty of ensuing debauchery in director Robert Hartford-Davis clever movie. It's part horror, part love story, part home invasion movie and even part mod (there's a very BLOW UP like party scene and the music by Bill McGuffie is a lot of fun). This is very blunt, in your face (no pun intended) thriller. Cushing and Lloyd have great chemistry and there's a gang of goons headed by Phillip Manikum that has to be seen to be believed. If they weren't so nasty, you'd mistake them for Harvey Lembeck and his crew from the Beach Party movies.