

The Creeping Flesh
A terrifying journey through the nightmare worlds of evil, insanity, and terrible revenge.
A Victorian scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones, unleashing a malevolent entity on the scientist's family and friends.
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- English
- skeleton
- monster
- reincarnation
- insane asylum
- murder
- creature
- corpse
- scientist
- monkey
- attempted rape
- mental illness
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- TheatricalPG12 Feb 1973
GermanyDE
- Theatrical16Jugendfilm West Germany1 Jan 1977
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The Creeping Flesh was released on 12 February 1973.
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2- T8/10
talisencrw
5/9/2016
I love both the horror films of Britain's Hammer Studios and the pairings of Sir Peter Cushing and Sir Christopher Lee so very much. Though this is one of their latter and lesser-known, it doesn't disappoint. Very much worth purchasing and rewatches for the horror connoisseurs amongst you...
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
5/27/2023
Right until the end, I was convinced that this was just a bit of nonsense. At the end, though, a great deal of it falls into place and through it still isn't really very good, this film made a lot more sense. In a nutshell, "Hildern" (Peter Cushing) returns from Papua New Guinea with some artefacts (human ones). When they get wet, they reanimate into a rather nasty skeleton that wreaks havoc. Determined to stop this …
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