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Corruption

Play trailer Poster for Corruption R,  1968,  1h 31m,  Horror Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 67% 6 Reviews Tomatometer 28% 50+ Ratings Popcornmeter
67% Tomatometer 6 Reviews 28% Popcornmeter 50+ Ratings
A knighted surgeon kills for the skin glands he needs to restore his wife's scarred face.

Critics Reviews

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Noel Murray The Dissolve Oct 14, 2013
3/5
A lot of betwixt-and-between movies came out in this era: sleazy B-pictures with major stars...and classier studio projects that dabbled in explicit sex and gore. Corruption fits both of those descriptions. Go to Full Review
Vincent Canby New York Times Sep 29, 2007
2.5/5
The contemporary setting works against the kind of tale that was even a bit silly in the pre-heart-transplant era. Go to Full Review
John Beifuss Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Dec 28, 2013
2.5/4
The concept of face -- as a noun, as a verb, as the mask that hides and exposes our emotions, as the anchor to our definition of self -- is so essential to human identity that horror films that hinge on the disfigurement of the face have a special power. Go to Full Review
Paul Chambers Movie Chambers Oct 28, 2013
B
Peter Cushing is over-the-top crazy in this grindhouse-style goreathon. It's hard to imagine the filmmakers didn't know the end product would be campy. Go to Full Review
Brian Orndorf Blu-ray.com Oct 12, 2013
B
Satisfactorily plotted, with superb performances from Cushing and Lloyd, who manage to elevate the unseemly appetites of the script with class, turning cheap theatrics into an absorbing depiction of manipulation. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Sep 26, 2007
C-
An uninspiring, revolting and potty British grand guignol. Go to Full Review
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Kylo G Jan 2, 2018 One of the great lost video nasties,,, a movie only horror freaks could love
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Cast & Crew

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Robert Hartford-Davis

Director

Peter Cushing

Sir John Rowan

Sue Lloyd

Lynn Nolan

Noel Trevarthen

Steve Harris

David Lodge

Groper

Kate O'Mara

Val Nolan

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Corruption

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Movie Info

Synopsis A knighted surgeon kills for the skin glands he needs to restore his wife's scarred face.
Director
Robert Hartford-Davis
Producer
Peter Newbrook
Screenwriter
Donald Ford, Derek Ford
Production Co
Oak Productions
Rating
R
Genre
Horror
Original Language
British English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 19, 1968, Original
Runtime
1h 31m
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