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The Creeping Flesh review by NAParry from Burton upon Trent

One of the last greats 17 April 2005
...her Lee and featuring Hammer stalwart Michael Ripper, this was also directed by Freddie Francis. The story begins slowly and seemingly meanders, but before long, all the di...

The Beast Must Die on DVD (1974)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Peter Cushing, Herbert Lomas
Director: Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis, Peter Duffell
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Wealthy businessman and skilled huntsman, Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) summons a selection of guests to his home for the weekend, one of whom is a werewolf with a taste for blood. It's up to the others to seek out the monster before the full moon reveals the culprit. Featuring a 30 second "guess ..read more »

Rate this: 55% from 468 members

The Creeping Flesh (1972)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
Director: Freddie Francis
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A professor returns to Britain with a skeleton unearthed in New Guinea. He believes it will help him discover the origins of Man... but he is unaware that the remains are those of Shish Kang... the Evil One...

Rate this: 56% from 328 members
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Tales From The Crypt (1972)
Starring: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Peter Cushing
Director: Freddie Francis
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Five tales of twisted terror unfold as a mysterious monk predicts the future of each of five tourists and reveals the horrifying crimes that each is plotting.

Rate this: 67% from 151 members

Dracula Has Risen From The Grave on DVD (1968)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Barbara Ewing, Rupert Davies
Director: Freddie Francis
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When Christopher Lee's Dracula decides to make a lovely young blonde his next victim, he finds he's bitten off a little more than he can chew. The young woman is the niece of a small town pastor, and, when the clergyman finds out what happened, he seeks deadly revenge against the vampire. Now ..read more »

Rate this: 64% from 727 members

They Came From Beyond Space (1967)
Starring: Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin
Director: Freddie Francis
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Aliens take over the bodies of earthlings.

Rate this: 33% from 6 members

Doctor Terrors House Of Horrors on DVD (1965)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Peter Cushing, Ursula Howells
Director: Freddie Francis
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A mysterious, dark fortune teller named Schreck joins five travelers (Christopher Lee, Roy Castle, Kenny Lynch, Donald Sutherland, and Alan Freeman) on a train, offering to predict their futures with Tarot cards. The stories he sees in his deck of cards, or what he refers to as his "house of ..read more »

Rate this: 65% from 1,051 member

The Day Of The Triffids on DVD (1962)
Starring: Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey, Janette Scott
Director: Ken Hannam, Freddie Francis
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A meteor shower disrupts the earth's ecosystem, blinds all who observed it and awakens meat-eating plants. As the hungry foliage grow ever faster, a sighted sailor and an alcoholic scientist help save humanity from becoming plant food. Script originally credited to Phillip Yordan, who acted as a ..read more »

Rate this: 59% from 1,474 member

The Saint - Series 4, Episode 13 - The M... to Watch Now (1969)
Starring: Roger Moore, Kate O'Mara, Ian Ogilvy
Director: Freddie Francis
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Run time: 52 minutes
The Saint is lured to a house in Cornwall by two attractive young sisters in which he meets their father, Keith Longman, an eccentric millionaire. He tells the Saint that he is dying and that he plans to have himself frozen in suspended animation until such time that a cure can be found for his ..read more »

Rate this: 60% from 5 members

Champions, The - Episode 16, Shadow of t... to Watch Now (1969)
Starring: Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt
Director: Freddie Francis
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Run time: 52 minutes
Sharron is dispatched to Haiti with orders to investigates the mysterious death of a scientist.

Rate this: 60% from 1 member

The Saint - Series 3, Episode 28 - The G... to Watch Now (1967)
Starring: Roger Moore, Kate O'Mara, Ian Ogilvy
Director: Freddie Francis
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Run time: 52 minutes
The Gadic collection forms the priceless centre-piece of an art exhibition at the Silbakin Museum in Turkey and several groups of people are out to steal it, most notably the wealthy local art collector Turin. Turin is sure that the Saint has taken the collection and, in an effort to obtain it for ..read more »

Rate this: 60% from 5 members

The Beast Must Die - 3.0 stars
The Creeping Flesh - 3.0 stars
Tales From The Crypt - 3.5 stars
Dracula Has Risen From The Grave - 3.0 stars
Torture Garden - 3.0 stars

Peter Cushing - 6 times - show films
Peter Cushing - 6 times - show films
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Roy Castle - 2 times - show films
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Peter Duffell - 2 times - show films
Roy Ward Baker - 1 times - show films
Ken Hannam - 1 times - show films