Prissy preacher Algernon Ford (Gavin Reed) is actually an ancient vampire organising a family reunion. Despondent over his 'deteriorating bloodline', the good reverend, his hunchback servant, and a trio of green-faced bloodsuckers rent Carfax Abbey and make the acquaintance of three of his female descendants. With one cousin used as a blood bank, and another as the main course of a vampire banquet ('Delightful meal. How old was she?"), Reverend Ford plans on using Susan, the prettiest of his ancestors, as a breeder for vampire babies...

One of Milligan's best, The Body Beneath is not only presented here completely uncut, put permeated with lunatic characters, goofy gore, and a disturbing atmosphere of decadence and decay that climaxes with an effectively nightmarish vampire soiree..