Scream and Scream Again (1970)
Country: GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Gordon Hessler
Cast: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alfred Marks, Marshall Jones, Michael Gothard
Synopsis:
A serial killer who drains the blood of his victims is traced by police to the home of a deranged, but government-backed, scientist with a scheme to design a super-race.
Review:
Both the Frankenstein and Dracula fables are plundered in this AIP release, which for half its length plods intriguingly enough back and forth between three plot strands: London copper, Marks, looking and quipping more like Groucho with his dyed eyebrows and moustache, investigates gruesome murders; a man wakes up repeatedly in hospital with each time a new limb having been removed; and unmotivated torture and jockeying for power prevail in some fictional East European state (still apparently located in the home counties). The action then moves to a protracted chase of the Gothard character and culminates in the usual moral banalities. On the way the presentation is lazily efficient (i.e. lots of zoom lenses and poorly matched cuts), while the science-fiction elements are underwritten, and the three genre heavyweights heading up the cast have nothing much to do except see whether they will end up in an acid bath used to finish off disposable characters.
Country: GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Gordon Hessler
Cast: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alfred Marks, Marshall Jones, Michael Gothard
Synopsis:
A serial killer who drains the blood of his victims is traced by police to the home of a deranged, but government-backed, scientist with a scheme to design a super-race.
Review:
Both the Frankenstein and Dracula fables are plundered in this AIP release, which for half its length plods intriguingly enough back and forth between three plot strands: London copper, Marks, looking and quipping more like Groucho with his dyed eyebrows and moustache, investigates gruesome murders; a man wakes up repeatedly in hospital with each time a new limb having been removed; and unmotivated torture and jockeying for power prevail in some fictional East European state (still apparently located in the home counties). The action then moves to a protracted chase of the Gothard character and culminates in the usual moral banalities. On the way the presentation is lazily efficient (i.e. lots of zoom lenses and poorly matched cuts), while the science-fiction elements are underwritten, and the three genre heavyweights heading up the cast have nothing much to do except see whether they will end up in an acid bath used to finish off disposable characters.
Country: GB
Technical: col 94m
Director: Gordon Hessler
Cast: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alfred Marks, Marshall Jones, Michael Gothard
Synopsis:
A serial killer who drains the blood of his victims is traced by police to the home of a deranged, but government-backed, scientist with a scheme to design a super-race.
Review:
Both the Frankenstein and Dracula fables are plundered in this AIP release, which for half its length plods intriguingly enough back and forth between three plot strands: London copper, Marks, looking and quipping more like Groucho with his dyed eyebrows and moustache, investigates gruesome murders; a man wakes up repeatedly in hospital with each time a new limb having been removed; and unmotivated torture and jockeying for power prevail in some fictional East European state (still apparently located in the home counties). The action then moves to a protracted chase of the Gothard character and culminates in the usual moral banalities. On the way the presentation is lazily efficient (i.e. lots of zoom lenses and poorly matched cuts), while the science-fiction elements are underwritten, and the three genre heavyweights heading up the cast have nothing much to do except see whether they will end up in an acid bath used to finish off disposable characters.