The read
Critics rate it 22 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 78% of the 374 1970s horror movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes83%
Critics rate it 22 points higher than audiences do.
115 audience votes
Key crew
- Freddie FrancisDirector
- Peter SpenceleyScreenplay
- Jonathan RumboldScreenplay
- Paul FerrisOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Peter CushingEmmanuel Hildern
- Lorna HeilbronPenelope Hildern
- Christopher LeeJames Hildern
- George BensonWaterlow
- Catherine FinnEmily
- Hedger WallaceDoctor Perry
- Duncan LamontInspector
- Kenneth J. WarrenCharles Lenny
- Larry TaylorChief Asylum Warder
- Harry LockeBarman
- Robert SwannYoung Aristocrat
- Jenny RunacreMarguerite Hildern
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Themes
skeletonmonsterreincarnationinsane asylummurdercreaturecorpsescientistmonkeyattempted rapemental illness