Columbia Pictures
Directed by Robert Hartford-Davis
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Peter Cushing is a middle aged surgeon who accompanies his much younger girlfriend to a swinging party in late 60s London. When a photographer gets a little too personal with her they fight, and her face is disfigured by a falling flood light. Cushing's experiments with ancient medicine leads to a breakthrough and he his able to heal her, but it turns out to be temporary. He needs living tissue for the next operation and this leads him to commit murder. These scenes are actually quite well done, with Cushing at his unhinged best beheading a prostitute and later a hitchhiker. He hides their heads in the freezer, which leads to a tense situation when one of the victim's boyfriend stages a home invasion with his hippie pals. An action finale with an out of control laser seems forced and unrealistic, as does the head-scratching ending which suggests it was all just a dream.
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