“Smells like cheese, looks like ham… [takes a bite of sandwich] Oh, no problem. It’s chicken.” Rest assured, Grue Believers. Nothing about this movie resembles chicken. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they dive into that strange vat of boiling acid known as Scream and Scream Again (1970)!
Decades of Horror 1970s
Episode 207 – Scream and Scream Again (1970)
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A serial killer who drains his victims’ blood is on the loose in London. The police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
Directed by: Gordon Hessler Writing Credits: Christopher Wicking (screenplay); Peter Saxon (novel) Selected Cast: Vincent Price as Dr. Browning Christopher Lee as Fremont Peter Cushing as Major Heinrich Benedek Alfred Marks as Detective Supt. Bellaver Michael Gothard as Keith Christopher Matthews as Dr. David Sorel Judy Huxtable as Sylvia Anthony Newlands as Ludwig Kenneth Benda as Prof. Kingsmill Marshall Jones as Konratz Uta Levka as Jane Yutte Stensgaard as Erika Julian Holloway as Detective Constable Griffin Judy Bloom as Helen Bradford (as Judi Bloom) Peter Sallis as Schweitz Clifford Earl as Detective Sgt. Jimmy Joyce Nigel Lambert as Ken Sparten David Lodge as Detective Inspector Phil Strickland
First, take a killer film title and an equally killer poster. Then grab a bizarre tale that includes long (yet exciting) car chases, vampires (sort of), Frankenstein (sort of), Nazis (sort of), super Vulcan nerve pinches (sort of), and a bubbling vat of acid. Then cast it with three iconic horror actors and what do you get? Scream and Scream Again from Amicus, directed by Gordon Hessler, and featuring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing. Even if all three are never in the same scene, the results are oddly compelling, yet … goofy and frustrating. Despite the negatives, this film has grown a cult following. What might the Grue Crew make of it?
At the time of this writing, Scream and Scream Again is available to stream from Tubi and Freevee, as well as various PPV options. The film is available on physical media as a Special Edition Blu-ray from Kino Lorber.
Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode, chosen by Jeff, will be Effects (1979), inspired by George Romero’s Martin (1977) and featuring Tom Savini, as both an effects artist and an actor.
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