Scream and Scream Again

R

1970

1 hr. 35 min.

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

List

63%

16 Reviews

Tomatometer

28%

1,000+ Ratings

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Heading British Intelligence, Fremont (Christopher Lee) carries a heavy workload, what with killers, mad scientists and all. While a serial killer with a penchant for drinking his victim's blood runs rampant, the murderous and deranged Dr. Browning (Vincent Price) engages in harvesting body parts to conduct his experiments. The lead man on the case, Detective Bellaver (Alfred Marks), tries to piece it all together, while a fascist leader (Peter Cushing) pulls strings from behind the scenes.

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Nick A

So confusing, nothing clearly explained and woefully edited. Not even the impressive cast could save this film sadly.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/27/24

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Based on the novel The Disorientated Man by Peter Saxon*, this Amicus film boasts the best line-up potentially ever in a horror film, with Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price all appearing. It starts with a man jogging, collapsing and waking up in a hospital missing his leg. He screams and then the same scream repeats as he loses every appendage. There's also an Eastern European spy named Konratz (Marshall Jones, Cry of the Banshee) killing his superiors, including Cushing. Also times two, someone is killing young women in London and it looks like Keith (Michael Gothard) — a blood-drinking super-strong weirdo — is the murderer. Price shows up as the sinister Dr. Browning and it all ends up being a conspiracy movie that owes a fair deal to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but that movie didn't end with much of its cast falling into acid. According to Lee, the villains of this movie were going to be revealed as aliens, but that was cut out of the movie for some reason, leaving a lot of the movie unexplained. This was directed by Gordon Hessler (Pray for Death; Scream, Pretty Peggy; Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad). There's only one other movie to team Price, Lee and Cushing: House of the Long Shadows. They barely appear in any scenes together. though. *A house pen name for multiple authors at Amalgamated Press; the Saxon that wrote this story is Stephen Frances edited by W. Howard Baker.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Audience Member

An absolute waste of time, both for the audience and by the filmmakers. There are segments of the movie that are included for absolutely no purpose other than to stretch an otherwise short story into film length. There is a very long slow speed car chase, followed by an even longer and slower foot chase; and long scenes in a rave nightclub. There is a fictional Nazi-like state with a character that uses a Vulcan nerve pinch to kill. There is nothing fun or enjoyable about the "badness" of this movie.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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Audience Member

Bizarre, weird. This film is all over the shop, you don't know where it's going or what's going on to start with and when you do figure it out its still pretty oddball... It's about a serial killer who preys on women who is superhuman it seems with another story about a weird Nazi like military cult that is randomly cut to and a guy who is having his limbs removed while he sleeps! It all eventually comes together in the end kind of, oh and it also has Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing in. I'm not sure if it good or bad or just stupid but I think I enjoyed it, it's not what I was expecting that's for sure

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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andy f

A particularly grim and gruesome affair, this atypical late 60s/early 70s horror is another that boasts Price, Cushing and Lee as the main stars - but they only have a few lines each in the film! Fortunately Alfred Marks surly copper carries the film along - a nasty shocker with some bizarre ideas and it just about works.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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delysid d

Weird film with nazis, vampire serial killers and a vat of acid

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

04/11/18

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Gordon Hessler

Director

Vincent Price

Dr. Browning

Christopher Lee

Fremont

Peter Cushing

Major Heinrich Benedek

Judy Huxtable

Sylvia

Alfred Marks

Detective Supt. Bellaver

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

This is another of those absurd Vincent Price horror movies, impossible to dislike because they ask only that you share their sense of the absurd. The fascinating thing about this one is that it makes absolutely no sense at all...

Rated: 2/4

Jul 2, 2018

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

…a very memorable film to watch… what’s left on screen is as inscrutable as a crossword without any clues…

Rated: 3/5

Aug 16, 2023

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Tim Brayton

Alternate Ending

[Director Gordon] Hessler is doing good work in keeping the film grubby and grounded.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 19, 2020

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

One of the earliest movies to possess themes that would be explored to greater, more graphic extents in the torture porn subgenre of the late '90s and beyond.

Rated: 3/10

Aug 31, 2020

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Stephanie Crawford

Daily Grindhouse

I hate being uncharitable about Scream and Scream Again's weak and chaotic bits because it's still just so much fun.

Jul 15, 2020

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Norman Spinrad

Los Angeles Free Press

A nice, tight, finely-crafted little science-fiction suspense film.

Jan 10, 2020

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Synopsis

Heading British Intelligence, Fremont (Christopher Lee) carries a heavy workload, what with killers, mad scientists and all. While a serial killer with a penchant for drinking his victim's blood runs rampant, the murderous and deranged Dr. Browning (Vincent Price) engages in harvesting body parts to conduct his experiments. The lead man on the case, Detective Bellaver (Alfred Marks), tries to piece it all together, while a fascist leader (Peter Cushing) pulls strings from behind the scenes.

Director: Gordon Hessler
Executive Producer: Louis M. Heyward
Screenwriter: Christopher Wicking
Production Co: Amicus Productions
Rating: R (Brief Nudity|Some Violence)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English (United Kingdom)
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 16, 2008
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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