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Noutions Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

owen-170 I remember a cinema viewing of this (the most complete version I've seen), then a TV broadcast, then a video, and in more recent years a DVD. All versions were different with scenes cut, & re-edited, plus the music variations: There is a scene with a coroner kissing a corpse before being disturbed, a scene where the hitchhiking man & woman are being tortured – especially the man. Other scenes with Alfred Marks bringing down Michael Gothard, using a weapon in the quarry & worst of all: a shortened scene involving Lee & Price talking. I'm told there are other cuts at the end too - but I can only remember what I have mentioned. Because of this & the fact a lot of these scenes have never been restored (or maybe others out there have the more complete versions), I'm afraid the forthcoming Blu-Ray could be a real letdown; unless it has an extras section. If it hasn't, what would be the point of another edited release? This movie was a big enough mishmash in the first place!

Scott LeBrun This offbeat horror film, scripted by Christopher Wicking based on a novel by Peter Saxon, has a rather busy plot. It ties together separate threads: one about political intrigue, one about a "vampire" styled serial killer, and another about a mad scheme to harvest human body parts for some unknown purpose. The perplexed but determined police inspector in charge of the serial killer case is a man named Bellaver (Alfred Marks); even after the killer, Keith (Michael Gothard), is apprehended, he escapes again and leads the cops to the operation of a doctor named Browning (Vincent Price).Fans of Mr. Price, Sir Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing are likely to feel disappointed after watching this. After all, they're billed as star attractions, yet their combined screen time doesn't add up to much, leading one to believe that they were hired principally for name value. It's the excellent Marks that does the true heavy lifting in terms of acting. He plays his role with humour and charm, and makes "Scream and Scream Again" worth seeing. It's also fun to see a British genre film from this period that so obviously is of its era. We even get to see a brief musical performance by a band named The Amen Corner, who perform two songs, "When We Make Love" and the title track. The actual music score is courtesy of David Whitaker and adds to that off the wall quality because it's rather jaunty, not exactly your typical horror film score. One unqualified highlight that occurs is the protracted chase sequence between the cops and Keith. And it's hard to completely dislike any horror story that includes a couple of acid baths.Lee and Cushing are really rather wasted, but Price has as much fun as he can in his somewhat limited role. In addition to Marks, other actors doing fine work are Peter Sallis as Schweitz, Christopher Matthews as the inquisitive young Dr. Sorel, Kenneth Benda as Professor Kingsmill, and Marshall Jones as Konratz.This isn't all that *good* a movie, in all honesty, but it certainly rates as a real curiosity.Six out of 10.

Boba_Fett1138 This is a movie starring horror icons Christopher Lee, Vincent Price and Peter Cushing but yet it is still a movie only a handful of people know off and have actually seen. There really is a very simple explanation for that; the movie just really isn't that good.The main and biggest problem I had with this movie was that for 75% you have absolutely no idea what is going on and what its mystery is all supposed to be about. It's all being told so vaguely and loosely that you simply start to give up to try and make sense of it all. It's of course fine for a movie to be mysterious but they should at least had given the audience something and should have had explained certain things far earlier in the movie. Now, when the big 'twists' comes you just don't care about it anymore because everything that came before it was told in such a terribly non-engaging and uninteresting way.Even after finishing this movie, it still leaves far more questions than answers. Some things simply happen in the movie and you have to take a lot of things for granted. Such as for instance; what was with that whole Nazi-like group of people? Who or what were they supposed to be or represent and why and how exactly were they in so much control of things?I can definitely recognize the movie for what it was trying to be and do and I also still could really appreciate it for that. It tried to be more like early '60's mystery movies, that often involved a detective in the search off a killer and it often had a sort of horror/science-fiction twist and vibe to it all. And it's still truly being such a movie with its atmosphere, characters, main plot, music and whatever more, it just still isn't really a good movie at all. You could say and think that the movie should at least be watchable because it features Cushing, Lee and Price in it but the truth is that most of them are hardly in this movie at all and they get far too little interesting to do. The one that plays the biggest role is Lee, as the good guy for a change. And my goodness, at first I didn't even recognized him since he's using such a thick British accent in this movie and he really isn't using his own, very distinctive, voice at all. I still really liked him in his role and I though he did a great job at it but still his character was a bit of a stiff one and not all that suitable or likable enough to become the main 'hero' of the movie. Cushing's and Price's role is far more worthless. What even was the point of Cushing's character in this? And Price only shows up a couple of times and suddenly only starts to get more important toward the movie its end.It definitely does has some value to it and the movie also still has its moments but overall it's a far too messily told and written movie to become a good one.5/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Scarecrow-88 A secret military organization is working in concert with a mad scientist conducting experiments using victims kidnapped from London streets, their limbs removed, tendons strenghtened with synthetic technology. There's a series of "vampire murders" where females, frequenting a psychedelic club, are strangled by a madman, with superior power, their blood completely drained. The psychopath just so happens to be a "composite", a created "super-human", thanks in part to the secret experiments..he's in fact a flaw that must be corrected, because his extraordinary condition would draw unneeded attention to the experiments, such as police investigation. Meanwhile, a spy is captured, and used as a bargaining chip in order to retrieve specific information that pertains to the whole investigation regarding the murderer.Christopher Lee is Fremont, a major form of power within the London Police who must surrender the investigative material(..the entireties of the case)to a sadistic military type, Konratz(Marshall Jones)who took control of his fiendish Nazi-type organization after "subduing" his boss, Benedek(Peter Cushing, positively wasted in a nothing role). Meanwhile, Dr. Browning(Vincent Price), the British scientist who must evade constant police activity that threatens his work, will eventually have to contend with a coroner who snoops around his grounds, attempting to understand why the psycho committed suicide by jumping in the doctor's strategically placed acid tank in the barn nearby his mansion.Price fares best of the three horror icons in Gordon Hessler's needlessly over-complicated plot which still is essentially a mad scientist, "supersoldiers" plot reflecting the designs of Hitler, instead relocating the mad plot to England. There's a lengthly chase scene where Superintendent Bellaver(Alfred Marks)and his men pursue serial killer Keith(Michael Gothard)throughout England, often injured in the process. I'm not sure why the composites needed blood as a constant source. The film spends a lot more time with grumpy, acid-tongued Bellaver than with the headlining stars, and a great deal of focus is concerned with the London youth scene of the time.My favorite sequences concerns the reactions of a poor captured victim as every time he awakens from forced inoculations, he finds a new limb missing..it's morbid humor at it's best. The ways Keith constantly gets away from London Police is rather amusing, including how he escapes being handcuffed to a car. This is my first Hessler film, and I think he has a nice style with exciting camera-work, but the material itself is rather uninspired and too convoluted for it's own good..it seems that while dealing with a typical mad scientist plot, the filmmakers try to elaborate the scenario with extended sub-plots.