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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... Read customer review

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny And Girly review by FrankIV from Cirencester, England

Lucy in the Sky 15 February 2011
...e period who needs an illustration of what the contemporary term 'kinky' meant. Freddie Francis, best know for his work with Hammer, directs, and the whole thing was, apparent... Read customer review

Freddie Francis - filmography

Legend Of The Werewolf (1975)
Starring: Peter Cushing, David Rintoul, Lynn Dalby
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into adulthood only to kill the one-man band. He runs off to Paris, where he develops a jealous, overprotective crush on a prostitute, leading him to attack her client, incurring a pursuit by a determined ..read more »

58% from 9 members
Currently unavailable

The Beast Must Die on DVD (1974)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Herbert Lomas, Calvin Lockhart
Director: Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis, Peter Duffell
Certificate:
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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 »

56% from 646 members

The Creeping Flesh (1972)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Lorna Heilbron, George Benson
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
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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...

58% from 400 members
Currently unavailable

Tales From The Crypt on DVD (1972)
Starring: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
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.

69% from 486 members

Trog (1970)
Starring: Joan Crawford, Michael Gough, Bernard Kay
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
Anthropologist Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford) believes she has discovered the missing link in this flat science fiction drama. The creature is found in a cave and brought to her laboratory to undergo tests for her research. The hairy beast with the face of a monkey loves classical music and hates ..read more »

41% from 6 members
Currently unavailable

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny And Girly on DVD (1970)
Starring: Ursula Howells, Pat Heywood, Howard Trevor
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
A quartet of bizarre British blue bloods get their kicks by kidnapping male victims and bringing them to their estate in the country. After one man (Hugh Armstrong) is killed in an in-house chase, a local playboy (Michael Bryant) is blackmailed into coming to the house. The four fiends chase him ..read more »

69% from 103 members

The Champions - E16 - Shadow of the Panther (1969)
Starring: Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
Sharron is dispatched to Haiti with orders to investigates the mysterious death of a scientist.

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The Saint - S04 E13 - The Man Who Gamble... (1969)
Starring: Roger Moore, Kate O'Mara, Ian Ogilvy
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
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 »

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Dracula Has Risen From The Grave on DVD (1968)
Starring: Barbara Ewing, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
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 »

64% from 817 members

Torture Garden on DVD (1967)
Starring: Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Peter Cushing
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
Dr Diablo is a showman who boasts that his special sideshow exhibit has the power to reveal to people any evil that lies in their future. But this information comes at a price...

58% from 400 members

They Came From Beyond Space (1967)
Starring: Robert Hutton, Jennifer Jayne, Zia Mohyeddin
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
Scientists investigating an unusual meteor shower in a rural field in England are possessed by an alien force bent on an ulterior purpose.

35% from 11 members
Due for release on 30th July 2012

The Saint - S03 E28 - The Gadic Collection (1967)
Starring: Roger Moore, Kate O'Mara, Ian Ogilvy
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
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 »

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Dr Terrors House Of Horrors on DVD (1965)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Ursula Howells, Max Adrian
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
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 »

66% from 1,292 member

The Evil Of Frankenstein on DVD (1964)
Starring: Peter Woodthorpe, Duncan Lamont, Sandor Eles
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
When Dr. Frankenstein discovers his monstrous creation frozen in a glacier he thaws him out--with predictably rotten results. A Hammer Films production.

67% from 155 members

Paranoiac - Blu-ray (1963)
Starring: Liliane Brousse, John Bonney, Janette Scott
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
A woman must contend with her family's madness as she finds her own sanity in doubt in this thriller from British horror masters Hammer Films. After the death of her parents, Eleanor Ashby (Janette Scott) would seem a safe bet to inherit their estate, but at the funeral, she's convinced that she ..read more »

67% from 106 members

Paranoiac on DVD (1963)
Starring: Liliane Brousse, John Bonney, Janette Scott
Director: Freddie Francis
Certificate:
A woman must contend with her family's madness as she finds her own sanity in doubt in this thriller from British horror masters Hammer Films. After the death of her parents, Eleanor Ashby (Janette Scott) would seem a safe bet to inherit their estate, but at the funeral, she's convinced that she ..read more »

64% from 93 members

The Day of the Triffids (1962)
Starring: Alison Leggatt, Ewan Roberts, Howard Keel
Director: Ken Hannam, Freddie Francis
Certificate:
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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 »

60% from 1,750 member
Not currently released

The Adventures Of Black Beauty - The Com...
Starring: Michael Culver, Judi Bowker, Stacy Dorning
Director: Freddie Francis, Peter Duffell
Certificate:
The adventures of a child and a horse. Features every episode from the TV series. Based on the book of the same name by Anna Sewell.

56% from 10 members
Not available for rental

Freddie Francis facts

5 most recent films

Legend Of The Werewolf - 3.0 stars
The Beast Must Die - 3.0 stars
The Creeping Flesh - 3.0 stars
Tales From The Crypt - 3.5 stars
Trog - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny And Girly - 3.5 stars
Tales From The Crypt - 3.5 stars
Paranoiac - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Evil Of Frankenstein - 3.5 stars
Dr Terrors House Of Horrors - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

They Came From Beyond Space - 2.0 stars
Trog - 2.0 stars
The Adventures Of Black Beauty - The Complete Series - 3.0 stars
Legend Of The Werewolf - 3.0 stars
The Beast Must Die - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Peter Cushing - 9 times - show films
Ursula Howells - 4 times - show films
Roger Moore - 4 times - show films
Kate O'Mara - 4 times - show films
Ian Ogilvy - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Peter Duffell - 3 times - show films
Ken Hannam - 2 times - show films
Roy Ward Baker - 2 times - show films