Creeping Flesh

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Summary: Hammer's apotheosis.
Review: This is, quite simply, one of the masterpieces of the British cinema. Not only does it bulge with ideas and plots about science, madness, prison, sex, family, Victorian culture, patriarchy, surveillance, gender; not only does it evoke a period atmosphere that has an eerie, Surreal dislocation; not only does it have Cushing and Lee's finest, most complex performances; not only does it offer elegant proof of Freddie Francis's largely stifled directorial skill; not only does it pull off a daring 'Cabinet of dr. Caligari' framing that forces you to utterly rethink what you've just watched. It contains one extraordinary, hallucinatory sequence, about a third of the film, where all these elements cohere, where a timid girl is injected with supposedly madness-defying serum, her overpowering, overflowing desire provoking her father to incest, society to mob violence, and the film's muted colour scheme and style with flaming colour and hysterical pacing. A startling, major achievement.

Rating:
Summary: Good horror movie
Review: This May not be as good as the Hammer films, but it's still a decent, solid horror movie. Worth owning.