{"id":37164,"date":"2016-09-09T12:33:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T19:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=37164"},"modified":"2021-01-19T20:35:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T03:35:53","slug":"scream-and-scream-again-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=37164","title":{"rendered":"Scream and Scream Again (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;When you feel nothing, not even pain, the body and spirit are capable of limitless things.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Scream-and-Scream-Again-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Scream-and-Scream-Again-Poster-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Scream-and-Scream-Again-Poster-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Scream-and-Scream-Again-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Scream-and-Scream-Again-Poster-768x1166.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Scream-and-Scream-Again-Poster-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Scream-and-Scream-Again-Poster.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the near-future, a jogger collapses and finds himself gradually losing limbs in a hospital while a nurse attends to him; a London detective (Alfred Marks) searches for a &#8220;vampire killer&#8221; (Michael Gothard) who is terrorizing beautiful young women; an Eastern European official (Marshall Jones) silently kills anyone who questions his &#8220;brutal tactics&#8221; when interrogating political prisoners; and a limb-transplant surgeon (Vincent Price) lurks menacingly in the background.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Androids and Clones<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Lee Films<\/li>\n<li>Dystopia<\/li>\n<li>Horror Films<\/li>\n<li>Mad Doctors and Scientists<\/li>\n<li>Murder Mystery<\/li>\n<li>Peter Cushing Films<\/li>\n<li>Science Fiction<\/li>\n<li>Vincent Price Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary writes that this &#8220;fascinating British horror film which Fritz Lang admired because of its political subtext&#8221; remains &#8220;still undiscovered by repertory-theater owners&#8221;. He argues that the &#8220;direction by Gordon Hessler is clever&#8221;, and notes how interesting it is that &#8220;this picture, earlier than <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=16783\"><em>Alien<\/em><\/a> or <em>Android<\/em>, advances the spooky notion that egocentric scientists will someday create &#8216;synthetic&#8217; scientists&#8221;. Unfortunately, it takes far too long for the confusing (albeit effectively filmed) storylines to mesh together in a comprehensible way; a little more coherence would have gone a long way. And, as Peary notes, Vincent Price &#8220;gets a bit hammy in the unfortunately hokey finale&#8221;, while Christopher Lee&#8217;s role (as the head of an intelligence agency) is minimal, and Peter Cushing only shows up in cameo. This one will primarily be of interest to hardcore fans of futuristic sci-fi, and\/or British horror flicks. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> The title theme song, sung in a club visited by the &#8220;vampire killer&#8221;, will stick in your head for a long, long time after viewing; be forewarned. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some effectively shocking, well-filmed sequences<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Scream-and-Scream-Again-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Scream-and-Scream-Again-Still.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"872\" height=\"482\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Scream-and-Scream-Again-Still.png 872w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Scream-and-Scream-Again-Still-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Scream-and-Scream-Again-Still-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Scream-and-Scream-Again-Still-768x425.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 872px) 100vw, 872px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s worth a one-time look for its (minimal) cult status. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064949\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=250&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moria.co.nz\/sciencefiction\/scream-and-scream-again-1969.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishhorrorfilms.co.uk\/screamand.shtml\">British Horror Films Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s573boxscream.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When you feel nothing, not even pain, the body and spirit are capable of limitless things.&#8221; Synopsis: In the near-future, a jogger collapses and finds himself gradually losing limbs in a hospital while a nurse attends to him; a London detective (Alfred Marks) searches for a &#8220;vampire killer&#8221; (Michael Gothard) who is terrorizing beautiful young women; an Eastern European official (Marshall Jones) silently kills anyone who questions his &#8220;brutal tactics&#8221; when interrogating political prisoners; and a limb-transplant surgeon (Vincent Price)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=37164\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37164"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64553,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37164\/revisions\/64553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}