When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating the disappearance, he eventually finds traces that lead to Dr. Savary, who has produced a strange white powder that's coveted by a race of deformed human beings who live in the underworld in the sewers below the city.
Practical Effects
Gloriously grotesque mutant makeup that aged like milk
Acting
Denholm Elliott slumming it with Shakespearean commitment
Production
Sewer sets that smell worse than they look
Director
George Pavlou
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Clive Barker wrote the original story 'The Transfiguration of Benjamin Bunt' and allegedly disowned this adaptation.
This bombed so hard it helped kill British horror for years—part of the 'video nasty' moral panic without even being banned.
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