Scream and Scream Again

1970 "TRIPLE DISTILLED HORROR... as powerful as a vat of boiling ACID!"
5.5| 1h35m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 02 February 1970 Released
Producted By: Amicus Productions
Country: United Kingdom
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A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

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Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.
ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."
Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
GL84 After a series of graphic murders, a London police sergeant investigating the crimes find them to be committed by assembled beings created by a mad doctor forging them for a Communist country's eventual takeover and tries to stop them from continuing.Aside from being a collection of horror legends in one movie, this is actually one of their lesser roles. One of the main points here is that the film is mostly known for having three great horror stars of the time in it's cast, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Vincent Price. It's the latter that holds the most screen time, and his role as a doctor that actually wants to do good with his creations instead of evil was creative and put a new spin on an idea that most were expecting where Price is the villainous creator of what goes around killing people. It's still a nominal bad-guy role, but it's a bit closer to the side of good than evil. It does have some other fun scenes here setting up the mod-flavored London scene of the late 60s which sets up the fine, brutal attacks here in that time-frame quite well as those are quite brutal and somewhat nicely rely on that era's account of brutality. The movie doesn't have much else going for it until the middle third where it contains a nice car chase that is full of some new ideas of the cars zooming through traffic on the road that make it a far more remarkable than most car chases of the time and is all the more fun with the follow-up series of encounters along the buildings nearby that show his exceptional skills and provide the first clues to his true nature. It's only other important point here comes from the investigation into their abilities and some results have been found that sets up a rather nice mystery which does hold up quite nicely and stays intriguing enough throughout here. These are the film's positives which are mostly undone by several flaws. The biggest issue against this is that the film is very confusing it hardly gets any clearer until late with a large portion of the film spent with the only thing we know is a series of gruesome killings and the police don't know anything about how to stop the killer or the motives behind them. It's very aggravating when something happens and nothing is answered. Even still, nothing is confusing than the subplots that really go nowhere. There was a strange organization with a swastika- ish logo featured in the beginning, the random scenes with Lee just randomly thrown into the beginning and the utter confusion over what the society actually is which really makes no sense and is never explained what their target is supposed to be which makes these so confusing overall. Likewise, with all the scenes set in the swinging-mod London there's not a whole lot here that actually becomes a horror film until the mid-way which leaves this one somewhat boring in the first half with the lame pacing and confusion over everything. As well, just because Price is the first name listed in the credits doesn't mean he has a lot of screen time. In fact, all of the top three are all in there for about a combined ten minutes, Cushing for the least amount of time so seeing it for them might be problematic. Otherwise there's not much else to this one.Today's Rating/PG-13: Violence and Brief Nudity.
Scott LeBrun This offbeat horror film, scripted by Christopher Wicking based on a novel by Peter Saxon, has a rather busy plot. It ties together separate threads: one about political intrigue, one about a "vampire" styled serial killer, and another about a mad scheme to harvest human body parts for some unknown purpose. The perplexed but determined police inspector in charge of the serial killer case is a man named Bellaver (Alfred Marks); even after the killer, Keith (Michael Gothard), is apprehended, he escapes again and leads the cops to the operation of a doctor named Browning (Vincent Price).Fans of Mr. Price, Sir Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing are likely to feel disappointed after watching this. After all, they're billed as star attractions, yet their combined screen time doesn't add up to much, leading one to believe that they were hired principally for name value. It's the excellent Marks that does the true heavy lifting in terms of acting. He plays his role with humour and charm, and makes "Scream and Scream Again" worth seeing. It's also fun to see a British genre film from this period that so obviously is of its era. We even get to see a brief musical performance by a band named The Amen Corner, who perform two songs, "When We Make Love" and the title track. The actual music score is courtesy of David Whitaker and adds to that off the wall quality because it's rather jaunty, not exactly your typical horror film score. One unqualified highlight that occurs is the protracted chase sequence between the cops and Keith. And it's hard to completely dislike any horror story that includes a couple of acid baths.Lee and Cushing are really rather wasted, but Price has as much fun as he can in his somewhat limited role. In addition to Marks, other actors doing fine work are Peter Sallis as Schweitz, Christopher Matthews as the inquisitive young Dr. Sorel, Kenneth Benda as Professor Kingsmill, and Marshall Jones as Konratz.This isn't all that *good* a movie, in all honesty, but it certainly rates as a real curiosity.Six out of 10.
Claudio Carvalho In London, a serial-killer drains the blood of females and the Detective Superintendent Bellaver (Alfred Marks) and his team are hunting down the so-called Vampire Killer. Meanwhile in an undefined country that lives a military dictatorship, the cruel Konratz (Marshall Jones) is climbing positions killing The Power that Be. When the Vampire Killer flees from the police, he seeks refugee at the real estate of scientist Dr. Browning (Vincent Price) and jumps into a tank of acid. Dr. David Sorel (Christopher Matthews) is intrigued with the powerful acid and decides to get a sample. He finds the truth about the research of Dr. Browning. Many years ago, during the Cold War, the dictatorships in South America, James Bond, Flint and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "Scream and Scream Again" was a cult movie supported by the names of Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. The story entwines mad scientist with vampire, dictatorship and spy ring with a terrible music score. However, in the present days it is a dated mess despite the great cast. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Grite, Grite Outra Vez!" ("Scream, Scream Again")
JasparLamarCrabb Despite the title and promise of three horror titans teaming up, SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN is a bust. Vincent Price plays a mad scientist working for some vague army of lunatics bent on taking over the world...Christopher Lee is a British government official who may or may not be in on it. Peter Cushing pops up in a (very) brief cameo. Most of the film centers on the police trying to track down a "vampire killer" and as such, it's not too bad, just don't expect Price, Lee and Cushing to be sharing much screen time. Gordon Hessler's direction is alternately clever (he stages a few very good chase scenes) and oddly edited (there are far too many abrupt edits and Price's wrap up of the plot is really silly). There's very little to actually scream at...the film is not scary in the least.