Rent Corruption (1968)
3.0 of 5 from 68 ratings
1h 31min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
Sir John Rowan (Peter Cushing) is a prominent plastic surgeon with a beautiful and youthful fiancée named Lynn (Sue Lloyd), who works as a fashion model. At a raucous party, Rowan - much older than any of the other attendees, and clearly uncomfortable around the countercultural excess of the late 1960's - gets into a physical altercation with a sleazy photographer, and during the scuffle, a hot lamp falls on Lynn, severely scarring her face. Rowan pledges to reverse Lynn's disfigurement, experimenting with laser technology to revive her skin and eventually coming up with a cure-all: a Frankensteinian transplant of pituitary glands. Driven by a combination of guilt and love, Rowan goes on a murder spree, killing young women in order to use their pituitary glands to restore his fiancée's beauty. The procedure is successful, and the couple go on holiday to a seaside cottage, where all is fine for now, but they know that her face will soon start to show signs of deterioration... - Actors:
- Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd, Noel Trevarthen, Kate O'Mara, David Lodge, Anthony Booth, Wendy Varnals, Billy Murray, Vanessa Howard, Marian Collins, Jan Waters, Phillip Manikum, Alexandra Dane, Valerie Van Ost, Diana Ashley, Victor Baring, Shirley Stelfox, Marianne Morris
- Directors:
- Robert Hartford-Davis
- Producers:
- Peter Newbrook
- Writers:
- Donald Ford, Derek Ford
- Aka:
- Carnage
- Genres:
- Classics, Horror
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 30/08/2021
- Run Time:
- 92 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Three feature presentations: the censored UK theatrical cut (92 mins), the US theatrical cut (92 mins), and the graphic continental version (91 mins)
- Audio commentary with Peter Cushing biographer David Miller and English Gothic author Jonathan Rigby for the US cut and continental version (2013)
- The BEHP Interview with Peter Newbrook (1995, 92 mins): archival audio recording of the producer and cameraman in a careerspanning conversation with Alan Lawson and Roy Fowler, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project
- The Guardian Interview with Peter Cushing (1986, 72 mins): archival audio recording of the legendary actor in conversation with David Castell at the National Film Theatre, London
- The Reluctant Beatnik (2021, 15 mins): actor Phillip Manikum revisits his time on the film
- What Ever Happened to Wendy Vamals? (2013, 16 mins): the actor and TV host remembers playing Terry
- Archival interview with actor Billy Murray (2012, 14 mins)
- Archival interview with actor Jan Waters (2012, 9 mins)
- Stephen Laws Introduces 'Corruption' (2021, 7 mins): appreciation by the acclaimed horror author
- Alternative Laser Killer opening titles (3 mins)
- Isolated music and effects track
- Original UK theatrical trailer
- Original US theatrical trailer
- Edgar Wright trailer commentary (2013, 3 mins): short critical appreciation
- TV spots Radio spots Image galleries: production stills and promotional material Director's shooting script gallery
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Reviews (1) of Corruption
Wonderfully dated 1967 hippy horror movie - Corruption review by PV
I watched this for fun, and the film is dated late 60s hippy horror fun - with a late 60s and jazz soundtrack, lingo of the time and dated echo sound effects. Hard to think this is only a decade after the truly great horror films such as Dracula and Frankenstein.
Peter Cushing was a brilliantly expressive actor who, in our days of mumbling naturalism, probably would not even have a career (and not as an older white man with a posh English accent)> Shame.
Hilarious scenes in this., It's all pre-meetoo etc - thankfully! Reminds me in a weird way of much later film UNDER THE SKIN - maybe the beach scene?? - or AMERICAN MARY re Cosmetic Surgery.
The title is bad though - who came up with 'Corruption'.? The alternative title 'Carnage' is better. I'd prefer FACE ACHE... or NOT THE FACE.
See Tony Blair's father-in-law Tony Booth as an exploitative glamour photographer grappling with Peter Cushing.
Oh how all these plots would fall apart with DNA testing, CCTV and mobile phones...
Btw the director of this was a 50s TV director who then make lots of hippy-chick films in the 60s. Nothing from 1974 then died in his mid-50s in 1977.
3 stars
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