Scream and Scream Again (1969)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1969
Running Times: 95 mins
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: photographed in Eastman Color
Ratio: 1.85:1
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: An American International picture
Copyright: © MCMLXIX by American International Productions (England) Ltd.
Executive Producer: Louis M. Heyward
Produced by: Max J. Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky
Production Manager: Teresa Bolland

SCRIPT
Screenplay by: Christopher Wicking
From Press Editorial Services' novel 'The Disorientated Man' by Peter Saxon

DIRECTION
Directed by: Gordon Hessler
1st Assistant Director: Ariel Levy
Continuity: Eileen Head

PHOTOGRAPHY
Lighting Cameraman: John Coquillon
Camera Operator: Les Young
Processed at Humphries Laboratories

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Peter Elliott

MUSIC
Music Composed and Conducted by: David Whitaker
Musical Director: Shel Talmy

SONGS AND ADDITIONAL MUSIC
"Scream And Scream Again"
Written by Dominic King & Tim Hayes
Performed by The Amen Corner (uncredited)

"When We Make Love"
Written by Dominic King
Performed by The Amen Corner (uncredited)

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Bert Ross
Dubbing Mixer: Hugh Strain
Dubbing Editor: Michael Redbourn

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make-Up: Jimmy Evans
Hairdresser: Betty Sherriff
Wardrobe: Evelyn Gibbs

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Bill Constable
Art Director: Don Mingaye
Set Dresser: Scott Slimon
Construction Manager: Bill Waldron

MISCELLANEOUS
Special Operating Theatre Equipment by: Matburn Surgical, Farlington, England, UK

STUNTS
Police car chase arranged and executed by Joe Wadham

CAST
Vincent Price (Dr Browning)
Christopher Lee (Fremont)

Peter Cushing as Benedek

with
Alfred Marks as Detective Superintendant Bellaver
Christopher Matthews (David Sorel)

guest star
Judy Huxtable (Sylvia)

Anthony Newlands (Ludwig)
Kenneth Benda (Professor Kingsmill)
Marshall Jones (Konratz)
Uta Levka (Jane)
Yutte Stensgaard (Erika)
Julian Holloway (Griffin)
Judi Bloom (Helen Bradford)
Peter Sallis (Schweitz)
Clifford Earl (Detective Sergeant Jimmy Joyce)
Nigel Lambert (Ken Sparten)
The Amen Corner (themselves)

and
Michael Gothard (Keith)

David Lodge (Det. Insp. Strickland)

uncredited
Kay Adrian (nurse)
Edgar D. Davies (Rogers)
Rosalind Elliot (Valerie)
Leslie Ewin (tramp)
Lee Hudson (matron)
Stephen Preston (Fryer)
Lincoln Webb (wrestler)

PLOT SUMMARY

Police detective Bellaver investigates a series of brutal sex murders. His investigations lead him to scientist Dr Browning who is creating race of artificial humans who have already taken over an East European country as a prelude to world domination. But one of Browning's early experiments, Keith, has escaped and is the serial killer that Bellaver is hunting...

A noble attempt to update some of British horror's favourite icons, one that was somewhat scuppered by its surfeit of ideas. Part of the problem here is that Wicking actually has something to say - unfortunately, he has rather a lot to say and overloads his narrative with so many twists, turns and complications that audiences were baffled rather than terrified by what they saw. There are some intriguing ideas, but none of them hang together as a cohesive whole. The sequences set in
Cushing's authoritarian European state seem rather superfluous to the main plot, their only purpose seeming to be as a poor excuse to involve Cushing in the production. Director Hessler does what he can and, in those parts of the film that he seems to understand himself, he does a very creditable job. The action scenes in particular are well done, though the finale, in which Wicking tries desperately to unravel the mess he's got himself into, is a botch job.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: AIP
DVD Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment (Midnite Movies Double Feature 1003681)

Finland
Rating: banned in 1972

Sweden
Rating: 15

USA
Rating: M (original rating); PG (certificate #22245)

1970
February
2: USA - theatrical release in Hollywood, California
13: USA - theatrical release

June
22: Sweden - theatrical release

2002
August
27: USA - DVD releasae (MGM Home Entertainment (Midnite Movies Double Feature 1003681))

TRIPLE DISTILLED HORROR... as powerful as a vat of boiling ACID!

La carrera de la muerte - Spanish title
Doctor Diabolic - French video title
Huuto yössä - Finnish title
Lâchez les monstres - French title
Die Lebenden Leichen des Dr Mabuse - German title
Screamer
Skriiik... och skriiik... igen! - Swedish title
Terrore e terrore - Italian title

SEE ALSO
Frankenstein (1931)
Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)

REFERENCES

OTHER SOURCES

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credits

acid, book into film, dismemberment

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009