[Susan Foreman]

'Corruption' (1968) - Pre-order available at PowerHouse Films direct - £18:99

Release date: August 16

"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."

Special features:

• 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 replica production stills
• UK home video premiere
• Limited edition of 5,000 copies

Extras subject to change