Scream and Scream Again (1970)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Gordon Hessler

Writers:

Peter Saxon (novel)
Christopher Wicking (writer)

Release Date:

13 February 1970 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

TRIPLE DISTILLED HORROR... as powerful as a vat of boiling ACID!

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Scientist | Acid | Severed Hand | Dismemberment | Independent Film

Cast

Vincent Price	...	Dr. Browning
Christopher Lee	...	Fremont
Peter Cushing	...	Benedek
Alfred Marks	...	Supt.Bellaver
Christopher Matthews	...	David Sorel
Judy Huxtable	...	Sylvia
Yutte Stensgaard	...	Erika
Anthony Newlands	...	Ludwig
Julian Holloway	...	Griffin
Kenneth Benda	...	Prof. Kingsmill
Judy Bloom	...	Helen Bradford
Marshall Jones	...	Konratz
Peter Sallis	...	Schweitz
Uta Levka	...	Jane
Clifford Earl	...	Det. Sgt. Jimmy Joyce

Also Known As:

Screamer

Runtime:

USA:95 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 (video rating) | UK:X (original rating) | West Germany:16 (nf) | Australia:M | Finland:(Banned) (1972) | Norway:16 (1970) | Sweden:15 | USA:M (original rating) | USA:PG (certificate #22245) (re-rating) (1969)

Filming Locations:

Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK

Company:

American International Pictures (AIP)

Trivia:

David Lodge is listed in the end credits as playing a character called Det. Insp. Strickland. In fact, he does not appear in any version that survives today, and the character of Det. Insp. Strickland is not mentioned and does not appear.

Goofs:

Continuity: The car chase is full of errors in continuity. The action switches back and forth from a single lane road to a double lane highway and at one point Keith overtakes a blue car ahead of him in the road to the right and the police car follows. A few shots later, Keith overtakes a brown car and the scene cuts to Supt. Bellaver saying, "All right, let's take him." We then cut to one of the two cars overtaking the blue car and not the brown one.

Quotes:

Superintendent Bellaver: Smells like cheese, looks like ham...
[takes a bite of sandwich]
Superintendent Bellaver: Oh, no problem: it's chicken.

Movie Connections:

Spin off Dr. M (1990)

Soundtrack:

SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN

Fab and groovy 60's horror

This is one of my favorite horror movies of the 60's, it has cool jazzy music & even a band singing Scream and Scream Again, it has Vincent Price, it has Peter Cushing (as a honcho of some pseudo-Nazi type army), it has Christopher Lee, hard to tell if he's a good guy or a bad guy, actually, but overall it's just plain great entertainment. It's even got acid, no, not THAT kind, the kind that dissolves bodies. Yee-ha! People are mysteriously disappearing or being killed, it seems, and there's evil afoot, since Price is doing a few little experiments to make superhuman beings. Police are hot on the trail, along with a coroner's assistant, to catch the perpetrators, but they have no idea what they're up against. I particularly like when one of the superhuman dudes is captured and leaves behind a body part as he makes good his escape. If you're a fan of 60's horror then don't miss this one. 9 out of 10 stars.