Story Line
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.
“A terrifying journey through the nightmare worlds of evil, insanity, and terrible revenge.”
Top Cast

Peter Cushing
Emmanuel Hildern

Lorna Heilbron
Penelope Hildern

Christopher Lee
James Hildern

George Benson
Waterlow
Catherine Finn
Emily

Hedger Wallace
Doctor Perry
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Rating
5.9/ 10
Release Date
1973-02-12
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
HorrorScience Fiction
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User Reviews (2)
talisencrw
8/10
•5/9/2016I 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 ...

CinemaSerf
6/10
•5/27/2023Right 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) ...






