Scream and Scream Again
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| Directed by | Gordon Hessler |
| Produced by | Max Rosenberg Milton Subotsky Louis M. Heyward |
| Written by | Christopher Wicking based on a novel by Peter Saxon |
| Starring | Vincent Price Christopher Lee Peter Cushing |
| Music by | David Whitaker |
| Cinematography | John Coquillon |
| Editing by | Peter Elliot |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January 1970 |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Scream and Scream Again is a 1970 British horror film directed by Gordon Hessler and starring Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Alfred Marks and Peter Cushing.[1] It is based on the novel The Disorientated Man by Peter Saxon.
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[edit] Plot
A runner has a heart attack while on his daily jog and blacks out. He awakes in what looks like a hospital bed. Disoriented, the runner wakes up covered in sweat. A nurse tends to him and puts a pipe in his mouth. He pulls it out and notices that something is wrong. He pulls his hands out but feels that something is amiss. He then pulls back the covers to reveal that one of his legs is missing. He screams and blacks out again. When he awakes the second time he now discovers that both of his legs are gone. Again he screams hysterically. When he awakes a third time he cannot move a muscle.
A killer, {Michael Gothard}, who has a literal thirst for blood is prowling the nightclubs for fresh young victims. The police decide to set a trap to catch this man. A young policewoman poses as his new victim while wearing a wire. The killer meets the young policewoman and takes her with him to a secluded spot where he proceeds to drink her blood. The police catch him but after a fight, the killer makes his escape and drives off with the police in hot pursuit. They catch him on a rocky cliff and cuff him to the bumper of a police car. While the police are talking, the killer makes his escape by tearing off his own hand. He runs away, again with the police in hot pursuit, to a barn where he jumps into some yellow-coloured liquid. A policeman puts his hand into the yellow fluid and quickly pulls in back out in pain. The yellow water, it turns out, is acid.
The acid belongs to a doctor {Vincent Price) who says he is conducting germ experiments for cancer research. Certain members of the police don't believe the doctor's story and probe into the life of this doctor. When the police are told to leave the doctor alone, a young morgue attendant probes further and finds out much more than he bargained for.
[edit] Cast
- Vincent Price as Dr. Browning
- Christopher Lee as Fremont
- Peter Cushing as Major Heinrich Benedek
- Alfred Marks as Detective Superintendent Bellaver
- Michael Gothard as Keith
- Christopher Matthews as Dr. David Sorel
- Judy Huxtable as Sylvia
- Anthony Newlands as Ludwig
- Kenneth Benda as Professor Kingsmill
- Marshall Jones as Konratz
- Uta Levka as Jane
- Yutte Stensgaard as Erika
- Julian Holloway as Detective Constable Griffin
- Judy Bloom as Helen Bradford
- Peter Sallis as Schweitz
[edit] Production
The theme song for the film was by Amen Corner, who appeared in the film singing it.This was one of their last appearances before Andy Fairweather-Low departed for a solo career after a brief career as Fair Weather.
[edit] References
- ^ "Scream and Scream Again". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064949/. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
