Underplayed Gems

Scream and Scream Again (1969)

Scream and Scream Again poster
Directed by
Gordon Hessler
Genre
horror film, science fiction film, crime film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 107 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A series of strange events links a vampire-like killer to a secret organization. The story follows police and scientists trying to understand the connections between these bizarre occurrences.

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What happens

Scream and Scream Again is a 1970 British science-fiction horror film directed by Gordon Hessler for Amicus Productions, and starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alfred Marks, Michael Gothard, and Peter Cushing. The screenplay was by Christopher Wicking, based on the 1967 novel The Disorientated Man, attributed to "Peter Saxon", a house pseudonym used by various authors in the 1960s and 1970s. The film marks the second teaming, after The Oblong Box (1969), of actors Price and Lee with director Hessler. Price and Lee only share a brief scene in the film's climax. Cushing, in his brief scene, shares no screen time with either Price or Lee. Overlooked during its initial release, the film has since become a minor cult classic, with the Overlook Film Guide acknowledging it as "one of the best science-fiction films made in Britain." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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