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A Victorian scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones, unleashing a malevolent entity on the scientist's family and friends.
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12/02/1973
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115
Popularity
1.5
Peter Cushing
Emmanuel Hildern
Lorna Heilbron
Penelope Hildern
Christopher Lee
James Hildern
George Benson
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Catherine Finn
Emily
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Duncan Lamont
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Kenneth J. Warren
Charles Lenny
Larry Taylor
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Harry Locke
Barman
Robert Swann
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Jenny Runacre
Marguerite Hildern
David Bailie
Young Doctor
Michael Ripper
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Alexandra Dane
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Marianne Stone
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Tony Wright
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Dan Meaden
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Maurice Bush
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Martin Carroll
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I love both the horror films of Britain's Hammer Studios and the pairings of Sir Peter Cushing and Sir Christopher Lee so very much. Though this is one of their latter and lesser-known, it doesn't disappoint. Very much worth purchasing and rewatches for the horror connoisseurs amongst you...
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Right until the end, I was convinced that this was just a bit of nonsense. At the end, though, a great deal of it falls into place and through it still isn't really very good, this film made a lot more sense. In a nutshell, "Hildern" (Peter Cushing) returns from Papua New Guinea with some artefacts (human ones). When they get wet, they reanimate into a rather nasty skeleton that wreaks havoc. Determined to stop this evil from spreading, the professor tries to use it's blood to immunise his young daughter from it's effects - bad move! Meantime, his half-brother Christopher Lee - who has been su…
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