vivdunstan | This weekend’s movie watching

This weekend we’ve been watching the 1973 horror film The Creeping Flesh starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. This is a Tigon-made film, directed by Hammer director Freddie Francis, and sees Cushing as a Victorian scientist reactivating a horror from the past. It is definitely not one of Cushing’s absolute best films, but I think it’s underrated, and I enjoyed it a lot. Certainly more than the recent Louis Wain film that we watched over 3 viewings. It took us 2 nights to watch this 90 minute long horror film. It has a very good twist and would merit rewatching. Though I knew the twist before so was spotting lots of clues. Note for anyone considering watching there is an extended attempted sexual assault scene. So beware of that re a content warning. The reactivated monster is also disturbingly gory. But yup, enjoyed.