Wizard-8 Although any movie that has the presence of Peter Cushing definitely has some interest value, unfortunately "Corruption" doesn't really generate that much more interest in its other aspects. For starters, the story will more likely than not have horror fans thinking to themselves, "I've seen this same plot in other movies before." It's the old story of a doctor trying to restore some feature for an ailing loved one, even resorting to murder to do so. Actually, it probably could have worked again, but the way that it's executed will have most (if not all) viewers one step ahead of almost everything that unfolds on the screen until the last fifteen or so minutes. It will also have viewers quite bored, because the bulk of the movie unfolds at a really slow pace; there's simply not enough story here for a 91 minute movie.To top it off, the musical score by Bill McGuffie is one of the worst I've heard in any genre for quite some time, being extremely strident and inappropriate. It's often hard to accept what's happening on the screen when that brash and sour music is playing.Oh, and if you're still thinking of watching the movie just for base thrills and shocks, you'll likely still be disappointed. Though the movie got an "R" rating at the time, there's very little in the way of gore, shocks, or sexual elements.Hardly Peter Cushing's finest hour.

Scott LeBrun The legendary Peter Cushing gets a particularly sleazy vehicle with this "Eyes Without a Face" inspired thriller / dark comedy. It's definitely unrelenting and delivers many lurid thrills. Directed with flair by Robert Hartford-Davis ("Black Gunn", "The Black Torment"), it's irresistible for placing the distinguished actor in modern swinging London. The characters are damn entertaining and the murders are effectively brutal. The only thing that really hurts "Corruption" is the loud and jaunty jazz score by Bill McGuffie; in one instance of a climactic chase scene, it's particularly intrusive. Otherwise, this is tons of fun, a silly and sordid tale of obsession written by brothers Donald and Derek Ford ("A Study in Terror"), and produced and photographed by Peter Newbrook, later director of "The Asphyx".Cushing plays a prominent surgeon named Sir John Rowan, who dotes on his fiancée Lynn Nolan (Sue Lloyd), a model, enough that he accompanies her to a party where he's clearly out of his element. While there, she begins to be photographed by slick and slimy Mike Orme (Anthony Booth), and not liking this, John gets into a fight with Mike that causes a flood lamp to come crashing down and burn & scar Lynns' face. Wracked with guilt, John works to perfect a revolutionary technique utilizing the pituitary glands of donors. When he realizes that he needs fresh specimens for the procedure to work, he's not above resorting to murder. However, he's willing to stop at one victim, while the demented Lynn is so hellbent on maintaining her beauty that she tries to convince him to commit more murders.The appearances of several new characters - including a thug named Groper, hilariously played by David Lodge - gives the movie a real shot in the arm, and helps to carry it along to an awe-inspiring big finish involving an out of control laser. Until then, there's enough amusing material here to keep the audience watching. One simply *has* to find out how all of this insanity will be resolved. Cushing is excellent, of course, and completely throws himself into his part. (He's never looked quite as dishevelled as he looks here.) Lloyd is deliciously nutty and the two of them are well supported by such players as Noel Trevarthen as Johns' colleague, Kate O'Mara as Lynns' sister, Wendy Varnals as comely "hitchhiker" Terry, and Phillip Manikum as smooth criminal Georgie.This comes highly recommended, to fans of trash and Cushing completists everywhere.Eight out of 10.

alistairc_2000 This movie stars Peter Cushing is from the sixties I think. The awful jazz soundtrack dates the movie as does the swinging 60s party.The story is that Cushing is a surgeon. He is winching (dating) this woman. She loves herself and at the swinging party she gets a camera light in napper (face). Being the utter bitch she is she just moans, oh my face my face. So Petey being the good chap he is works out how to get her face back. He gets a gland from other women and sticks it in his bird, but he needs more than one... so the death count keeps climbing.Although the plot is a bit predictable it is a classy movie. You have Cushing in a bit of an action hero mode, or should that be anti hero. The fights are well choreographed. Cushing is the perfect English Gentleman at the start of the movie but as time wheres on he gets more and more deranged.This movie should be watched as considering its age it is a nasty movie. There are no nice characters apart from Cushing in it. His woman is horrible throughout the movie. She is really good looking and that is probably what got he in love with her. A great period piece.

JasparLamarCrabb Among the wackier films starring Peter Cushing. Surgeon Cushing is forced to steal pituitary glands from women in order to restore the face of his maimed girlfriend Sue Lloyd. Lloyd, a swinging model, becomes more and more demanding as her face gets more and more scarred. There's plenty of ensuing debauchery in director Robert Hartford-Davis clever movie. It's part horror, part love story, part home invasion movie and even part mod (there's a very BLOW UP like party scene and the music by Bill McGuffie is a lot of fun). This is very blunt, in your face (no pun intended) thriller. Cushing and Lloyd have great chemistry and there's a gang of goons headed by Phillip Manikum that has to be seen to be believed. If they weren't so nasty, you'd mistake them for Harvey Lembeck and his crew from the Beach Party movies.