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The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Origin of man and origin of evil
I saw this movie as part of a Peter Cushing DVD box. I did not really expect much but was pleasantly surprised. The special effects, which always are a bit cheesy in the Hammer films, was really very good, but it was the themes covered in this movie really impressed me. The desire to eradicate evil in the world and to create a kind of paradise only to see these great ambitions fail was great. The second theme, were Christopher Lee tries to find the scientific basis for insanity to find a cure for it, slowly connects to the story line of Peter Cushings research. The ambiance of the movie is very Gothic and illustrates nicely the futile human endeavor to create a paradise. The evil is a part of us and will always remain so. It is also far from the all to common American moralizing horror movies which tend to focus on the perils on pre-marital sex, e.g., "Friday the 13th".
For those of you who are a bit unsure about the horror genre I would say that this is a great introduction for it is a) a very good movie b) a nice intellectual exercise (!) and c) it stars Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in one of their best performances. Even giving this movie a 10 feels a bit unsatisfactory since I would like to give it more just to show my appreciation of it.