

Corruption
where will the bodies turn up next? ...under a car seat? ...in a valise? ...or in a deep-freeze?
A surgeon discovers that he can restore the beauty to his girlfriend's scarred face by murdering other women and extracting fluids from their pituitary gland. However, the effects only last for a short time, so he has to kill more and more women. It is ultimately a killing spree which ends with considerable death and disaster.
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- English
- surgeon
- doctor
- pituitary gland
- proto-slasher
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalR4 Dec 1968
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical151 Dec 1968
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1819 Jul 1968
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Corruption was released on 19 July 1968.
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2- W6/10
Wuchak
4/6/2022
**_Cult flick with Peter Cushing as a dubious doctor in swinging 60’s England_** A surgeon in London (Peter Cushing) is dating a much younger woman, a model (Sue Lloyd), who becomes dependent upon him after a tragedy. How far will he go to prove his love for her? "Corruption" (1968) takes its plot from “Eyes Without a Face,” aka “The Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus” (1960), which can be traced even further back …
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CinemaSerf
6/5/2023
"Sir John Rowan" (Peter Cushing) is an accomplished surgeon who is dating the rather vain and flighty "Lynn" (Sue Lloyd). When the latter is involved in a disfiguring accident, he decides to try to find a way to restore her beauty. He quickly discovers that by extracting fluid from the pituitary gland into the affected area, the skin recovers miraculously. What they equally swiftly realise is that this treatment isn'…
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