Corruption is a 1968 British horror film directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and starring Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd, Noel Trevarthen, Kate O'Mara, David Lodge, and Antony Booth.
At a raucous party, Rowan – much older than any of the other attendees, and clearly uncomfortable around the countercultural excess of the late 1960s – gets into a physical altercation with a sleazy photographer, and during the scuffle, a hot lamp falls on Lynn, severely scarring her face.
Rowan pledges to reverse Lynn's disfigurement, experimenting with laser technology to revive her skin and eventually coming up with a cure-all: a Frankensteinian transplant of pituitary glands.
"[2] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The classicism of the plot is nowhere reflected in Robert Hartford-Davis' direction, which finds its inspiration in such divergent sources as Blow-Up and The Penthouse.
[2][8] Brian Orndorf of Blu-ray.com wrote in his 2013 review: "This 1968 film is set during the Swinging London period of gaudy liberation, where colors exploded, hair was uncomfortably cut, and free love was rampant.
The image of Cushing, with his gentlemanly manner and impeccable style, is a potent one in the midst of all the youthful madness, with the opening of the effort traveling to a boisterous party where John is cornered by a picky hippie while Lynn's photographer guru goads her into nude shots.
Corruption quickly moves away from the freak-out showdown, but its period fashion sense remains, lending the movie a distinct look that's almost as entertaining to study as the murder spree ...
"[8] Critic John Beifuss wrote: "Probably the imperfect jewel of British director Robert Hartford-Davis's oddball filmography...Corruption had been perhaps the rarest of horror superstar Peter Cushing's many, many genre movies until the October appearance of this beautifully remastered and restored edition from Grindhouse Releasing, a company that exceeds even the Criterion Collection in its determination to create the definitive editions of the titles it licenses ... A truly wacked-out work of art.