The Creeping Flesh Movie Review

 

 

 

 

 The Creeping Flesh is a 1973 horror movie directed by Freddie Francis and starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

The film begins with Professor Emmanuel Hildern(Cushing) who needs help with his research. He meets a young man who is a doctor. He tells him that his story. Three years ago, in 1894,he brought back a skeleton from New Guinea. He lives with his daughter, Penelope(Lorna Heilbron) and he has a brother called James(Lee), who runs an asylum. Emmanuel's wife was locked up in the asylum and she has finally died. The Professor wants to make a big name for himself in his field by showing the skeleton to the world. There is something unusual about it. Emmanuel has lied to his daughter about her mother. He told her that she had died instead of revealing that she was languishing in an insane asylum. James is writing a book on mental disorders and he is hoping to win the same prize that Emmanuel is hoping to secure. He was subsidising Emmanuel's research but he is going to cut him off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A lunatic escapes from the asylum. Penelope is curious about her mother. She wants to know more about her. Emmanuel is washing the skeleton when he sees that it is starting to grow. James is performing experiments in his asylum. He has to shoot one of the inmates when he tries to escape.
The police are on the lookout for the escaped inmate who made it out. His name is Lenny. The professor has a helper who tries to wash the skeleton but is stopped by Emmanuel. It seems that the skeleton is being brought back to life by water. It is an ancient being who is evil. Her develops a serum from the blood on the skeletons newly grown flesh. He tests it out on a monkey and it seems to work. Emmanuel thinks that his serum will get rid of evil or madness for good.

 

 Penelope finds out about her mother. Emmanuel is scares in case she goes mad like her mother did.
In a moment of madness, he injects her with his serum. The lunatic Lenny goes mad also and tries to attack people in town. Penelope wanders off. She is upset over her mother. Emmanuel finds the monkey had died. He is worried about his daughter. He goes to look for her. She is going crazy. She attacks a man. She hides in a store. The police are after Lenny and her. She bumps into Lenny and he takes her hostage. She knocks him off a ledge and kills him. She is taken away and put into the asylum run by her uncle James. He brings her home to Emmanuel. James sees the lab and he finds notes that Emmanuel has been making. He takes them with him. He wants the skeleton also so he can take credit for the discovery.

James gets a man to steal the skeleton for him. Unfortunately, the man exposes it to the rain! What happens ??? It reforms into a man. It seems to be alive. It comes after the professor. It wants its finger back. It takes his finger as payment. That is the end of the professor's story. We find out that Emmanuel is in the asylum. His daughter is there too. James claims that both of them are insane and he has won the prize for his work. Emmanuel claims that he is James' brother, but nobody believes him. He is also missing a finger. Is his story true or is he insane?? Nobody knows.

This was a fun film. The story had a lot going on at the same time, but it was interesting. Cushing was great as always and Lee was great as the not so nice brother. I think that the ending is left up to the viewer to decide. Was he mad or was his story real and did his brother stitch him up. I'm not sure , to be honest. All in all, I enjoyed this film and I definitely recommend to all lovers of Cushing and Lee. I will give it a 6/10.

Slaughterhouse Movie Review

Slaughterhouse is a 1987 horror movie directed by Rick Roessler and starring Joe B Barton, Don Barrett,Sherry Bendorf and William Houck.

A group of teens meet their end in a creepy area. A man called Lester Bacon(Barrett) lives with his son, Buddy(Barton) on a site. There is an old slaughterhouse attached to it. He has been offered money to sell his site. A man called Tom( Bill Brinsfield) is the man who wants it. He owns a meat packaging plant. Tom brings Sheriff Borden(Houck) and Lester's attorney, Harold(Lee Robinson) to talk some sense into Lester, who is refusing to sell it. He is stubborn. The Sheriff gives him thirty days to leave the property. Buddy hears all of this and he is angry.

Sheriff Borden has a daughter called Liz(Bendorf). She wants to make a movie and she brings her friends to the slaughterhouse to film it. What they don't know is that local kids have been disappearing. Buddy has been disposing of them and putting them in the slaughterhouse. The Sheriff's deputy, Dave, is investigating the disappearances. He arrives at the slaughterhouse and he has a look around. He meets Buddy who cuts Dave's arm off. Lester sees what Buddy has done and he isn't happy about it. Harold arrives at the slaughterhouse. Lester confronts him. Buddy takes care of him also. Sheriff Borden can't find Dave. Buddy drives around in Dave's car and meets Dave's girlfriend, who he attacks. The Sheriff is getting worried now. Tom goes to the slaughterhouse and guess what? He gets killed there. Is there no end to the slaughter in the slaughterhouse???

Liz and her friends go to the slaughterhouse late and the boys play a trick on the girls by putting masks on and trying to scare them. Unfortunately for them. Buddy is not in the mood for tricks and he starts killing. The Sheriff is on the way out there. Liz is left wandering around and she meets Lester, who has lots of bodies hanging on meat hooks. He decides that she will have to die too. Her father is there though, and Liz manages to get away from Lester. He gets injured. Buddy chases Liz but her father finds her and together, they try to escape. Lester stabs the Sheriff and Liz shoots Lester.
She and her injured father get into his patrol car and drive off. Buddy just happens to be in the back and the movie ends with him attacking them.

This film wasn't bad. It wasn't great either. The setting of the slaughterhouse was creepy and the story wasn't terrible. There were some decent scenes in it, I have to say. It is one of those middle of the road slasher films. I wanted to like it more than I did. I found it just okay. I will say that it is fun overall, though, and it will pass ninety minutes quite nicely if you enjoy 1980's slashers, as I do. I will give this one a 5/10.

Don't Go in the Woods Movie Review

Don't Go in the Woods is a 1981 horror movie directed by James Bryan and starring Jack McClelland and Mary Gail Artz.

The movie begins with some campers getting attacked and killed in the woods by an unknown assailant. A group of campers are going to the woods for a camping trip. They are Peter(McClelland), Ingrid(Artz), Craig(James P. Hayden) and Joanie(Angie Brown). They are walking through the woods when they smell something really bad. They look for a cabin to stay in. The local cops are wondering why there are so many missing people. The Sheriff(Ken Carter) is told about it. He starts to investigate by talking to the locals. More people get killed in the woods. The Sheriff starts a search for missing persons. A woman is in the woods painting a picture with her baby. She gets killed and the baby is taken.

Peter sees something in the woods. It is a man. He heads off alone to see what is going on. The others are worried. Peter sees the man killing someone and he runs off. The killer has spotted him, so he is in trouble! Ingrid is waiting for him. The group decide that they will look for him. Craig meets his end when he encounters the maniac. He meets a sticky end. Joanie runs off through the woods. Ingrid finds Peter and they go to find the rest of their group. They find a cabin and they look for food. What they find is Craig's dead body. They run off once again. The maniac follows closely. Ingrid makes it to hospital along with Peter. Joanie is still in the woods. Ingrid and Peter tell the Sheriff what happened. He arranges a huge manhunt. Peter decides to go back into the woods to look for Joanie. She is in a cabin and the maniac shows up.

The Sheriff finds the cabin and he finds Joanie and she is pretty dead. The Sheriff recovers six bodies. He wants to find Peter so he brings Ingrid up there to bring him in. A guy who just happens to be rolling around the woods in his wheelchair gets decapitated!! Ingrid finds a knife and she goes to find Peter. They discover the maniac and Peter injures him. He and Ingrid share a hug. The maniac is not dead and he chases them. They manage to get him this time and stab him until he can't get up. The movie ends with Ingrid and Peter walking away. The baby from earlier is in the woods is playing with a hatchet.

This film is not great at all. I didn't hate it, but I found that it was really badly made. The acting was terrible and there were some silly scenes. It is one of those really cheap 1980's slasher movies that were churned out. If you enjoy some cheap horror, then you might enjoy this one. It is really just for die hard horror fans, I think. I always have fun with these bad films and even though this was pretty bad, it was worth a look!!! I will give it a 4/10.