After 17 years, an era ends: star Peter Cushing, screenwriter John Elder (real name, Anthony Hinds), and director Terence Fisher (making his final feature) reteam for Hammer’s last entry in the series. An insane asylum provides an eerily handy setting for new reanimation experiments, with David Prowse (three years before he played Darth Vader) incarnating the most grotesque of the good doctor’s unfortunate creations.

Please note: the print we are screening is faded and in poor condition.