Scream and Scream Again

Odd and bewildering mixed-genre flick with Price, Lee & Cushing at least entertains

A so-called vampire serial killer is on the loose in London (Michael Gothard) and a loose connection is made to the mysterious clinic of Dr. Browning (Vincent Price). A curious young doctor eventually pursues this lead for answers (Christopher Matthews). The impressive cast also includes the likes of Christopher Lee, Marshall Jones, Alfred Marks and Peter Cushing in a glorified cameo.

Scream and Scream Again (1970) is a London-based crime/drama and political thriller with a bit o sci-fi/horror. It meshes superhuman vampiric killers with Nazi-like militarists and Frankenstein-ian doctors. Its a mix of the contemporaneous The Tormentors (with a...

I initially thought that this might be a sequel to a "Scream and Scream" but no - this is just quite a messy production that doesn't really make very good use of the three more genre-established actors at it's disposal. It all follows the investigations of "Insp. Bellaver" (Alfred Marks) who is on the trail of an exsanguinator terrorising London's women. After an entrapment effort that does distinctly awry, that trail leads the police to the home of "Browning" (Vincent Price) whose scientific experiments involve a great vat of acid. Meantime, there is a parallel story going on somewhere in totalitarian Eastern Europe surrounding the activities of the ambitious "Konratz" (Marshall Jones) who is quite successfully murdering his way up the gre...