Movie Details

Title

The Creeping Flesh

Overview

A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil he is terrified that it will be passed on to their daughter. He tries to use the skeleton's blood to immunise her against this eventuality, but his attempt has anything but the desired result.

Runtime

1 h 34 min

Release Date

12 February 1973

Actors

Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Lorna Heilbron, George Benson, Kenneth J. Warren, Duncan Lamont, Harry Locke, Hedger Wallace, Michael Ripper, Catherine Finn, Robert Swann, David Bailie, Maurice Bush, Tony Wright, Marianne Stone, Alexandra Dane, Jenny Runacre, Larry Taylor, Martin Carroll, Dan Meaden

Certification

PG

Genres

Horror, Science Fiction

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