2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Leofwine_draca Once again a predictable horror film is lifted by the presence of Peter Cushing in the starring role who makes this film something of a minor classic. CORRUPTION tells the old story of a surgeon whose wife/girlfriend is facially scarred, and who must take tissue/organs from other living women in order to replenish the features of his wife. Of course the plot is borrowed from EYES WITHOUT A FACE yet refreshingly updated to the modern (well, '60s) day in swinging London, a place populated by mini-skirted dancers, sleazy photographers and jazzy music. Cushing is the upper-crust surgeon who is seriously out of place in the film's opening snazzy party, yet you know from the start that his character will change and sure enough, it's not long before he's rolling up the shirt sleeves to adopt his more familiar Baron Frankenstein role of grisly surgeon.However, CORRUPTION is a little bit more complicated than that. You see the script focuses on a little something called characterisation which a lot of movies miss. Cushing isn't a cold-blooded killer in this film, in fact he HATES killing. It makes him feel sick! The driving force behind the murders is his girlfriend Lynn, who is just like Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. Due to her vanity and her obsession with modelling, she demands Cushing to repeatedly restore her face when it decays and has no moral scruples about him killing in order to do so. Sue Lloyd plays Lynn, and is pretty good in the role although she does go somewhat over the top at the end.The film's first murder is a real shocking scene. In fact it was filmed in two versions, the soft and the hard. In the "soft" version - released in Western countries - we see Cushing enter the home of the prostitute and stab her in the stomach whilst embracing. This is bad enough as it is, but in the film's "hard" version - released in Europe - the previous version seems tame by comparison. Here, the prostitute takes her top off before wrestling Cushing to the ground. He ends up stabbing her and smearing blood over her naked torso. The next moment we see him sawing the head off her corpse like in a scene from BLOOD FEAST! If you never imagined old-fashioned Cushing in a splatter movie then this is the scene to see. It's certainly the sleaziest and most explicit scene he's ever shot.Well, Cushing is great in this film. He walks a fine line between being scary and being sympathetic. Watching him go into a despairing frenzy (with his hair all out of place and his clothes ruffled) as he kills the girls is pretty heartbreaking stuff. Then again watch the scene in the train carriage where he stares at the blonde girl. You can't get any creepier than that! This just goes to prove what a great actor Cushing was. Despite being a brutal murderer he also elicits the audience's sympathy and you end up rooting for him at the finale. A fine performance which goes above the call of duty, and which would be more at place in an A-film instead of a B-movie.The supporting cast is a pretty interesting one too, with lots of offbeat characters. For instance check out 'Groper' one of the members of the gang at the end of the film: you can't get much sleazier or more disturbing than this violent and dirty old man! Diana Ashley, Valerie Van Ost and Vanessa Howard lend glamour as potential victims. Kate O'Mara also pops up in a bizarrely non-glamorous role as Lynn's sister, Val. The highlight is seeing Tony Booth appear as a glamour photographer demanding his model to strip her clothes off.In all, this is an above average film bolstered by strong characters and a tour-de-force turn from the ever-haunted Cushing. The murders are truly disturbing without being graphic (apart from in that continental version, heh) and the ending is fantastic. A modern horror film which rises above the trappings of the genre thanks to an intelligent script and a good cast, this is definitely director Robert Hartford-Davis' best movie, and a near-classic at that. Probably the nearest that Cushing ever got to a strong contemporary horror, although this came probably about twenty years too early for our country's weak-stomached watchers.

MartinHafer The idea behind "Corruption" was VERY common in 1960s films--so common that the film is basically a reworking of these previous films. The French movie "Eyes Without a Face" (1960) and Japanese "The Face of Another" (1966) are basically the same film as "Corruption" and Ztracená Tvár (1965) was very similar. So, when it comes to originality, "Corruption" is hardly unique or groundbreaking. This is, however, as far as I know the first English language movie about crazed doctors stealing folks' faces to graft onto a loved one.When the film begins, Dr. John Rowan (Peter Cushing) is going to a party with his girlfriend, Lynn (Sue Lloyd). At the party, an obnoxious photographer begins taking photos of Lynn and the party gets wild-- and he tries to get Lynn to take off her clothes in front of everyone. Dr. Rowan naturally objects and he and the photographer get into a tussle--and a very hot lamp falls onto Lynn- -badly scarring her face. The Doc is naturally upset and blames himself--and creates a way to temporarily restore her looks and it involves killing women and extracting their pituitary glands!One thing that makes this film unique is that unlike the other films, this victim who is receiving the benefits of murdered girls knows full well what is happening and actually pushes the doctor to kill MORE girls! She's a complete sociopath and her own looks and needs are all that matter--making her a sick but very interesting character. Heck, she's even more than willing to go out and get her own victims! Also, her disfigurement ISN'T that bad--it's all about vanity as opposed to other films where there really isn't much face left. I loved these angles. Sick...but really interesting in its awfulness.So what don't I like about the film other than the lack of originality? The music is, at times, very distracting, loud and awful. A few times it totally dominates the picture and is more of an annoyance than enhancement. Also, the killings would have been VERY bloody and it isn't like you can easily get to the pituitary-- yet the film made it all look too bloodless and simple. Finally, the film's ending was a bit too long in coming and the film completely loses its momentum as a result of this and crappy ending. Otherwise, it's a creepy little horror picture--more about the evil in human nature than anything else. And the good far outweighs the bad.

callanvass John (Cushing) gets jealous of a photographer fawning over his wife at a party, and badly burns the face of his fiancé. John stops at nothing to conjure up a formula to fix her face. He succeeds, but it is only a temporary solution. Lynn is distraught and forces John to kill beautiful young women to fix her face. I had never heard of this movie before. I accidentally came across it one night and decided to watch it. For 1968, this movie is fairly disturbing and sleazy. I saw a review that said this is a "British" version of "Eyes Without a Face" It never really dawned on me, but that's true in a lot of ways. This movie has a good place with plenty of depravity. It isn't very bloody, but the sleazy nature should make up for that. This movie reaffirms my feelings that some women are crazy! (Not all...HENCE THE SOME!) I've gone through a lot of things for a woman I love, but I would never do anything like this. Peter Cushing is fantastic! I'm so used to him being subtle and quiet as a hero, I never expected him to be so crazy. His descent into madness is fun to watch. I also liked the added depth to his character. You can see how killing is so repugnant to him! The disdain on his face shows. I really liked that aspect of his character. He was very conflicted. I feared his instability, but sympathized with him at the same time. Sue Lloyd plays one of the most ungrateful wretches you'll ever see. I badly wanted to see her get her comeuppance! Credit to Sue for the excellent performance. My only major complaint is the twist ending! I hated it. Never let women abuse you! (Or guys for that matter, if women are reading this! Because guys can be awful as well, I admit it) I digress. This is a surprisingly enjoyable movie that seems to be obscure and hard to find. There is a lot to enjoy for fellow horror fanatics. 7.4/10

abdullah_canvey I saw this film 35 years ago in 1978 I was 15 it was on TV and it has stayed in my mind since, when I saw it I couldn't sleep for a week and the fridge that was staying shut, I haven't seen this film since but still remember a photo shoot light burning her face the train sequence and the head in the fridge, I suppose compared to today's graphic films this would be considered rubbish but at 15 it had a big impact on my life and I am still thinking and talking about it,I would like to see it again because I would probably laugh at why I couldn't sleep, HOPEFULLY. From what i remember it was a very basic storyline, girl gets face burned husband regrets and needs to kill women to keep his wife's skin good which only lasts a short time so needs to keep killing. Peter Cushing was again excellent and i always thought this was a hammer film production which i now know it isn't, all in all this film was probably rubbish which never see the light of day again but as a young man it had an impact on me that is still there age 50.