Scream and Scream Again (1970)

★ 5.3 1h 35m IMDb

Horror Sci-Fi

A serial killer who drains his victims for blood is on the loose and London police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

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Vincent Price as Dr. Browning Died 1993 · Saint Louis, Missouri, USA Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films. His career spanned other genres, including fi...

Christopher Lee as Fremont Died 2015 · Westminster, London, England, UK Christopher Lee (May 5, 1922 – June 7, 2015) was an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films. Oth...

Peter Cushing as Major Heinrich Benedek Died 1994 · Kenley, Surrey, England, UK Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE (26 May 1913 – 11 August 1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, amongst many o...

Judy Huxtable as Sylvia Age 82 · Kent, England Retired British actress, popular in the 1960s for a string of dollybird roles. She was the second wife of comedian Peter Cook. The couple married on 14th February, 1974 and divorced in 1989.

Alfred Marks as Detective Supt. Bellaver Died 1996 · Holborn, London, England, UK Alfred Edward Marks OBE (28 January 1921 - 1 July 1996) was a comic actor and comedian. Marks was born as Ruchel Kutchinsky in Holborn, London. He left Bell Lane School at 14 and started in entertain...

Director Gordon Hessler

Cast Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Judy Huxtable, Alfred Marks, Michael Gothard, Anthony Newlands, Peter Sallis, David Lodge, Uta Levka

Wuchak 6/10 Sep 24, 2021

_**Odd and bewildering mixed-genre flick with Price, Lee & Cushing at least entertains**_

A so-called “vampire serial killer” is on the loose in London (Michael Gothard) and a loose connection is made to the mysterious clinic of Dr. Browning (Vincent Price). A curious young doctor eventually pursues this lead for answers (Christopher Matthews). The impressive cast also includes the likes of Christopher Lee, Marshall Jones, Alfred Marks and Peter Cushing in a glorified cameo.

“Scream and Scream Again” (1970) is a London-based crime/drama and political thriller with a bit o’ sci-fi/horror. It meshes superhuman vampiric killers with Nazi-like militarists and Frankenstein-ian doctors. It’s a mix of the contemporaneous “The Tormentors” (with a WAY bigger budget) and the later “The Formula” (1980) with the Frankenstein element of “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” (2008). (I realize the latter two came much later; I’m just giving potential viewers an idea of what to expect with this oddity).

The female cast is decent with Judy Huxtable (Sylvia), Judy Bloom (cop), Yutte Stensgaard (Erika) and Uta Levka (nurse).

Christopher Wicking’s script eliminates a key revelation of Peter Saxon’s book (“The Disorientated Man”), which makes the story more mundane and political, which I favor. But the conflicting subplot involving the fictional Eastern European Communistic country could’ve easily been removed altogether, making the story less confusing and more streamlined. It’s like trying to cram a war story into a crime thriller/horror flick.

The movie runs 1 hour, 35 minutes, and was shot in London and Surrey County, which is just south of the city.

GRADE: B-/C+

CinemaSerf 5/10 Aug 10, 2023

I initially thought that this might be a sequel to a "Scream and Scream" but no - this is just quite a messy production that doesn't really make very good use of the three more genre-established actors at it's disposal. It all follows the investigations of "Insp. Bellaver" (Alfred Marks) who is on the trail of an exsanguinator terrorising London's women. After an entrapment effort that does distinctly awry, that trail leads the police to the home of "Browning" (Vincent Price) whose scientific experiments involve a great vat of acid. Meantime, there is a parallel story going on somewhere in totalitarian Eastern Europe surrounding the activities of the ambitious "Konratz" (Marshall Jones) who is quite successfully murdering his way up the greasy pole - and that's where Peter Cushing (briefly) and Christopher Lee ("Fremont") make their appearances in this meandering and frankly disappointing film. There are a few moments to liven it up: you can rarely go wrong with a decent car chase, but the stars I tuned in to watch feature all to intermittently, and those that do have little to bring to a story that could easily have been condensed into a forty five minute "Tales of the Unexpected". Sorry, but not much to see here.