Scream and Scream Again 1970
| Scream and Scream Again | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Gordon Hessler |
| Written by | Christopher Wicking |
| Based on | The Disorientated Homo past Peter Saxon |
| Produced by | Max Rosenberg Milton Subotsky Louis Chiliad. Heyward |
| Starring |
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| Cinematography | John Coquillon |
| Edited by | Peter Elliott |
| Music by | David Whitaker |
| Production | American International Pictures |
| Distributed by | Warner-Pathé (U.k.) American International Pictures (USA) |
| Release dates | January 1970 (UK) February ii, 1970 (U.s.)[1] |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $350,000[ane] |
| Box office | $1,217,000 (U.s.a./ Canada rentals)[2] |
Scream and Scream Again is a 1970 British scientific discipline fiction conspiracy thriller film starring Vincent Cost, Christopher Lee, Alfred Marks, Michael Gothard, and Peter Cushing. Information technology is based on the novel The Disorientated Man (1967) by 'Peter Saxon', a house pseudonym used by various authors in the 1960s and 1970s.
It marks the 2d teaming, after The Oblong Box, of actors Price and Lee with director Gordon Hessler. Price and Lee only share a cursory scene in the film'south climax. Cushing, in his brief scene, shares no screen time with either Cost or Lee.
Although the movie's championship, and association with stars Cost, Lee and Cushing, might suggest a fierce horror film, the violence in the film is generally understated and/or off-screen, while the plot owes more to films like Invasion of the Body Snatchers or 1970's era 'conspiracy thrillers' like The Parallax View.
Overlooked during its initial release, the film has since go a minor cult classic, with the Overlook Picture show Guide acknowledging it equally: "one of the best scientific discipline-fiction films fabricated in Britain."
Plot [edit]
The picture'southward structure is fragmented, as it alternates betwixt iii plot threads.
A homo jogging through suburban London grabs his heart, and collapses. He wakes upward in a hospital bed. The nurse tending him gives him h2o and leaves. He pulls down the bed covers to detect that his lower right leg has been amputated. He screams. Later scenes repeat the same action as his other limbs are amputated.
Elsewhere, intelligence operative Konratz (Marshall Jones) returns to his home land, an unidentified Eastern European totalitarian land. Afterwards being debriefed past Captain Schweitz (Peter Sallis), Konratz steps around the table and places a hand on Schweitz'southward shoulder, paralysing and and so killing him. Konratz is later reprimanded by his superior Major Benedek (Peter Cushing) for his torturing an escapee, Erika (Yutte Stensgaard ). Konratz kills Major Benedek in the same way.
In London, MPS Detective Superintendent Bellaver (Alfred Marks) investigates the rape and murder of a young woman, Eileen Stevens. Supt. Bellaver goes with immature forensic pathologist Dr. David Sorel (Christopher Matthews) to the dispensary of her employer Dr. Browning (Vincent Toll), but he provides no useful information. A immature woman, Sylvia (Judy Huxtable), is picked upwards at the Busted Pot Disco by the sinister Keith (Michael Gothard). She is killed by Keith, and her torso is later found drained of blood.
The two young women have apparently been raped and murdered past the aforementioned individual. Supt. Bellaver sends out several immature policewomen to effort to entrap the killer. WPC Helen Bradford (Judy Bloom), wearing a wire and electronic tracer, goes to the same lodge where she lets herself get picked up and driven away by Keith. The police follow and arrive just after Keith has attacked her and appears to be drinking blood from her wrist. With apparent superhuman strength, Keith fights off the arresting police and drives off, commencement a long chase sequence past car and on foot through suburban London, during which Keith tears off his arm in an attempt to escape, and which ends at an estate where he throws himself into a vat of acrid in an outbuilding. The edifice turns out to belong to Dr. Browning, who explains that he uses the acid to destroy possible pathogens in his biological experiments.
The narrative strands begin to come together when a senior UK Government officeholder, Fremont (Christopher Lee) meets Konratz at London'southward Trafalgar Square. Before long later, Supt. Bellaver is ordered to terminate his investigations, but Dr. Sorel decides to continue on his ain. Accompanied by WPC Bradford, he goes to Dr. Browning's laboratory, seemingly unoccupied, but she and their auto disappear. Later, she wakes up restrained in the same hospital bed with the aforementioned nurse attending her as the dismembered jogger.
Returning to Dr. Browning'due south house, Dr. Sorel discovers Browning is nearly to surgically operate on WPC Bradford, in part of a plot to replace human beings with composites, artificial beings. Konratz appears, and is angry that Dr. Browning'south actions have interfered with his part of the plot. When Browning expresses misgivings, he and Konratz struggle. Konratz is pushed into a vat of acid in the laboratory room. Fremont appears and struggles with Dr. Browning, who also falls into the acid. Fremont, Dr. Sorel, and WPC Bradford escape, although to an uncertain future.
Cast [edit]
- Vincent Cost as Dr. Browning
- Christopher Lee as Fremont
- Peter Cushing every bit Benedek
- Judy Huxtable (billed equally "guest star") as Sylvia, 1st immature woman at disco
- Alfred Marks as Detective Superintendent Bellaver
- Michael Gothard as Keith
- Anthony Newlands as Ludwig
- Peter Sallis equally Schweitz
- David Society as Detective Inspector Strickland (cease-title credit but)
- Uta Levka every bit Jane, nurse
- Christopher Matthews as Dr. David Sorel
- Judy Bloom (billed as Judi Bloom) as WPC Helen Bradford
- Clifford Earl as Detective Sergeant Jimmy Joyce
- Kenneth Benda equally Professor Kingsmill
- Marshall Jones as Konratz
- Amen Corner as themselves
- Yutte Stensgaard equally Erika, escaping adult female (uncredited)
- Julian Holloway as Detective Lawman Griffin (opening-title credit merely)
- Nigel Lambert as Ken Sparten (uncredited)
- Kay Adrian as Nurse (uncredited)
- Edgar D. Davies as Rogers (uncredited)
- Rosalind Elliot as Valerie, 2nd immature woman at disco (uncredited)
- Leslie Ewin as Tramp (uncredited)
- Lee Hudson as Matron (uncredited)
- Gertan Klauber as Border Guard (uncredited)
- Olga Linden every bit Eileen Stevens (uncredited)
- Stephen Preston equally Fryer (uncredited)
- Joe Wadham as Wadham, Police Driver (uncredited)
- Lincoln Webb as Wrestler (uncredited)
Production [edit]
The movie is based on Peter Saxon'south science fiction novel The Disorientated Man. For the nearly role, the movie follows the novel quite closely.
In the novel, the antagonists turned out to be aliens. Co-ordinate to an interview with Christopher Lee, the characters were indeed going to exist revealed as aliens in the picture'due south climax, merely all connections to that fact were cut out of the movie before it was released, leaving the enigmatic villains' backgrounds unexplained.[3]
Rights to the novel were bought by Milton Subotsky of Amicus Productions who got financing from Louis Heyward head of European operations for AIP.[1]
There was a script by Subotsky but it was regarded as unplayable.[4] Gordon Hessler says he got Chris Wickling to heavily rewrite it:
That was really a lurid book, a throwaway book that you read on a train. In that location was nix in it, just empty pieces of activeness. Merely it was Chris who gave it a whole new level by using it as a political procedure of what might happen in the future. That is what fabricated the picture, he'due south the 1 that came up with all those ideas, yet he nonetheless managed to keep the nuances of the sort of pulp fiction novel.[v]
The eponymous theme song for the moving picture was by Amen Corner, who appeared in the film singing information technology. This was one of their concluding appearances before Andy Fairweather Depression departed for a solo career after a cursory career as Fair Weather.
This marked the first fourth dimension that horror-movie icons Peter Cushing, Vincent Toll and Christopher Lee appeared in the same feature-film. The three actors even so, exercise not share screen infinite. Cushing does non appear with either Lee or Price - merely appearing in a cameo. Lee and Price share a cursory scene towards the moving-picture show's climax.
The moving picture was made in the span of a month, starting on 5 May 1969 at Shepperton, having location work washed at Trafalagar Foursquare and Chertsey, Surrey. Though the film has a release engagement of 1970, the copyright lists 1969.[6] In the final scene, Christopher Lee's Bentley has a tax disc with an decease date of December 1969 thus strongly consistent with a production of 1969.
An episode of The Ten-Files, "Kill Switch", depicts Agent Fox Mulder in a virtual reality experience during which, like this film'southward victim, nurses periodically dismember his limbs while he sleeps.
Reception [edit]
Reviews from critics were mixed. Howard Thompson of The New York Times wrote that the picture "tools along intriguingly for a while with some 18-carat possibilities earlier taking a nosedive" when it "ends up in still another mad scientist's lair."[7] Variety wrote that the script "has almost as many holes as the assorted victims of the action. Even so, such criticism is completely irrelevant to the film's gripping momentum of horror."[eight] Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four, calling it "ridiculous" withal "impossible to dislike because they inquire only that you share their sense of the absurd. The fascinating matter well-nigh this one is that it makes absolutely no sense at all until perhaps the last 10 minutes. None."[ix] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the picture show one star, calling it "a violent and sick moving picture ... that begs to be included in our annual worst xx list."[10] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times chosen the film "a superb piece of contemporary horror, a science fiction tale possessed of a credibility more terrifying than whatsoever of the Gothic witchery of 'Rosemary'due south Infant' ... Information technology's one of those movies where you take no idea what's going on until the end, but one time there, there's no letdown."[11]
On Rotten Tomatoes the motion picture has an approval rating of 64% based on fourteen reviews, with an average rating of 5.45 out of 10.[12]
References [edit]
- ^ a b c Ed. Allan Bryce, Amicus: The Studio That Dripped Blood, Devious Cat Publishing, 2000. p 56-61. ISBN 9780953326136
- ^ "Large Rental Films of 1970", Variety, vi January 1971 p 11
- ^ Pohle, Robert; Hart, Douglas; Pohle Baldwin, Rita (2017). The Christopher Lee film encyclopedia. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 127. ISBN9780810892705. OCLC 973222703.
If that [existence an alien] wasn't clear, information technology was either in the cutting or the story, considering that indeed was meant to be the solution.
- ^ All'southward Well That Ends: an interview with Chris Wicking Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 55, Iss. 658, (Nov 1, 1988): 322.
- ^ George G. Reis, "An Interview with Gordon Hessler", DVD Drive In accessed 27 February 2014
- ^ "nineteen Things You Must Know Nigh Scream and Scream Once again". The Sound of Vincent Price. February vii, 2017. Retrieved October x, 2018.
- ^ Thompsom, Howard (July 9, 1970). "Neighborhoods Get Horror Film Dual Pecker". The New York Times: 44.
- ^ "Scream and Scream Again". Variety: xvi. February 11, 1970.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (Feb 18, 1970). "Scream And Scream Again". RogerEbert.com . Retrieved October 10, 2018.
- ^ Siskel, Gene (February 18, 1970). "Scream Again". Chicago Tribune. Department two, p. 5.
- ^ Thomas, Kevin (Feb 21, 1970). "'Scream Once again' Scary Science Fiction Tale". Los Angeles Times. Part II, p. nine.
- ^ "Scream And Scream Once again (Screamer) (1970)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved Baronial eight, 2020.
External links [edit]
- Scream and Scream Again at IMDb
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_and_Scream_Again
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