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Corruption - Limited Edition
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Blu-ray
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In the 1960s, director Robert Hartford-Davis (The Black Torment, The Fiend) teamed up with producer/cameraman Peter Newbrook (The Asphyx) to make a series of low-budget films capitalising on the cinematic crazes of the day. In 1968, the duo stridently ventured into the surgical horror subgenre with Corruption, a grim update of Eyes Without a Face, transposed into the scenic south-coast seaside town of Seaford, via Swinging Sixties London.
In a surprising performance, Peter Cushing (Captain Clegg, The Revenge of Frankenstein) stars as a high-class plastic surgeon who is driven to murder as part of a demented quest to rebuild the decaying visage of his fashion model wife (Sue Lloyd, The Ipcress File), who has been severely scarred at a party.
A film that pushed the envelope of gore and sleaze in its era, Corruption is presented on home video for the first time in the UK.
- 2K restoration from the original negative
- Two feature presentations: the theatrical version (92 mins); and the more graphic international version (91 mins)
- Original mono audio
- Audio commentary with Peter Cushing biographer David Miller and English Gothic author Jonathan Rigby (2013)
- The BEHP Interview with Peter Newbrook (1995): career-spanning audio interview with the producer and cameraman, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring Newbrook in conversation with Alan Lawson and Roy Fowler
- The Guardian Lecture with Peter Cushing (1986): audio recording of an interview with the legendary actor recorded at the National Film Theatre, London
- Interview with actor Phillip Manikum (2021)
- Interview with actor Billy Murray (2012)
- Interview with actor Jan Waters (2012)
- Whatever Happened to Wendy Varnals? (2013): interview with the English actor
- Stephen Laws Introduces 'Corruption' (2021): appreciation by the acclaimed horror author
- The Unkindest Cuts (2021): critic and writer Michael Brooke on the history of surgical horror
- Edgar Wright trailer commentary (2013): short critical appreciation
- Original UK theatrical trailer
- Original US theatrical trailer
- TV spots
- Radio spots
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
- Director's shooting script gallery
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Laura Mayne, archival articles and interviews, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
- Limited edition exclusive set of five replica production stills
- UK home video premiere
- Limited edition of 5,000 copies
Extras subject to change
- Powerhouse Films
- 92 mins approx
- Robert Hartford-Davis
- 18
- Peter Cushing
- Sue Lloyd
- Billy Murray
- Antony Booth
- English SDH
- 1968
- English
- 1
- Powerhouse Films
Corruption - Limited Edition
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Blu-ray
A$47.99
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In the 1960s, director Robert Hartford-Davis (The Black Torment, The Fiend) teamed up with producer/cameraman Peter Newbrook (The Asphyx) to make a series of low-budget films capitalising on the cinematic crazes of the day. In 1968, the duo stridently ventured into the surgical horror subgenre with Corruption, a grim update of Eyes Without a Face, transposed into the scenic south-coast seaside town of Seaford, via Swinging Sixties London.
In a surprising performance, Peter Cushing (Captain Clegg, The Revenge of Frankenstein) stars as a high-class plastic surgeon who is driven to murder as part of a demented quest to rebuild the decaying visage of his fashion model wife (Sue Lloyd, The Ipcress File), who has been severely scarred at a party.
A film that pushed the envelope of gore and sleaze in its era, Corruption is presented on home video for the first time in the UK.
- 2K restoration from the original negative
- Two feature presentations: the theatrical version (92 mins); and the more graphic international version (91 mins)
- Original mono audio
- Audio commentary with Peter Cushing biographer David Miller and English Gothic author Jonathan Rigby (2013)
- The BEHP Interview with Peter Newbrook (1995): career-spanning audio interview with the producer and cameraman, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring Newbrook in conversation with Alan Lawson and Roy Fowler
- The Guardian Lecture with Peter Cushing (1986): audio recording of an interview with the legendary actor recorded at the National Film Theatre, London
- Interview with actor Phillip Manikum (2021)
- Interview with actor Billy Murray (2012)
- Interview with actor Jan Waters (2012)
- Whatever Happened to Wendy Varnals? (2013): interview with the English actor
- Stephen Laws Introduces 'Corruption' (2021): appreciation by the acclaimed horror author
- The Unkindest Cuts (2021): critic and writer Michael Brooke on the history of surgical horror
- Edgar Wright trailer commentary (2013): short critical appreciation
- Original UK theatrical trailer
- Original US theatrical trailer
- TV spots
- Radio spots
- Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
- Director's shooting script gallery
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Laura Mayne, archival articles and interviews, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
- Limited edition exclusive set of five replica production stills
- UK home video premiere
- Limited edition of 5,000 copies
Extras subject to change
- Powerhouse Films
- 92 mins approx
- Robert Hartford-Davis
- 18
- Peter Cushing
- Sue Lloyd
- Billy Murray
- Antony Booth
- English SDH
- 1968
- English
- 1
- Powerhouse Films
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