Corruption

Sir John Rowan (Peter Cushing) is a prominent Plastic surgery with a beautiful and youthful fiancée named Lynn (Sue Lloyd), who works as a fashion model. At a raucous party, Rowan—much older than any of the other attendees, and clearly uncomfortable around the Counterculture of the 1960s 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 Organ transplantation of glands. Driven by a combination of guilt and love, Rowan goes on a murder spree, killing young women in order to use their glands to restore his fiancée’s beauty. The procedure is successful, and the couple goes off on holiday to a seaside cottage, where all is fine until her face starts to show signs of deterioration.