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Backlash007 2012-05-21 16:55:28

"Triple distilled horror!!"

~Spoiler~Scream and Scream Again is bizarre, absolutely bizarre. It's for sure notyour usual Vincent Price, Victorian era , Edgar Allan Poe, Roger Cormanproduction. This is the most surreal movie I've ever seen. If I were evento try and explain this film, I wouldn't know where to start. The basis issuch a nonsensical plot that the back of the box can't even explain it. Fartoo much jumping around makes the film terribly hard to follow. But stickwith it. I've never seen a film that was running so far in differentdirections and, yet, still come together in the end to make perfect sense(more or less). It has three of the most legendary horror actors to boot:Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing. The three greats in thesame film! Of course the film is marketed using that. It is, however,misleading. Price is merely a supporting character, Lee is largely absentfrom the whole thing, and Cushing has a four minute cameo. That upsets me. The main flaw though is one Hessler made before in The Oblong Box: There'sno clear cut main character. You don't know who you're rooting for oragainst. So you don't root at all. It's very confusing and flawed, but thepayoff almost makes up for it. I'll end by saying that this is quitepossibly the weirdest, wildest, quirckiest flick I've ever watched, but Ithink I liked it.

silversprdave 2012-05-21 03:35:40

Great atmosphere, great plot, fair otherwise

'Scream and Scream Again' is one of my favorites, even though it is ratherlypoorly put together. The director tried to make the movie mysterious -- andsucceeded too well, making it nearly incomprehensible. However, if you havepatience, the final explanation at the end will tie enough of the filmtogether to make rewarding sense. The main attraction for this movie is its subtle atmosphere of horror. The movie mainly consists of fragmented images that come to gether to painta darker picture than just what the movie shows. A good example of the texture and flavor of the film is the scene which,to my disappointment, was removed from the version I rented (I originallysaw the film in a college Halloween movie festival). A coroner while aloneinvestigating the death of a lovely women begins to move forward as if tokiss the corpse but is interrupted by the inspector entering the room. Thesurprised coroner quickly straightens up and tries to look very official andbusy, but obviously is upset at having almost been caught being amorous tothe corpse. No further reference was made to the scene. This is an example of the extremely dark and upsetting images that liejust beneath the surface of the film. It is unfortunate that the director'sattempt to involve the audience by making them work hard to piece togetherfragments of action into something comprehensible was mostly unsuccessful. Still, I think the film is worth the patience. My rating: 8 of 10.

rob 2012-05-20 17:07:52

Still a great film after 33 years

I first saw this film when it was released in 1970.At the timeitwas considered very shocking.Looking at it now,compared totodayshorror films,I suppose it would be considered tame.I still thinkitis a great example of how a shocker should be made.You neverknowwhat is going to happen next!The film has everything,non-stopaction,agreat cast(including the big three-Lee,Price and Cushing),andgoodspecial effects.So take my word for it-watch and enjoy!

The Welsh Raging Bull 2012-05-20 05:58:35

Extremely ambitious mix of sci-fi and horror

Predictably, the marketing guys associated with this 1969 film went togreatpains to highlight the teaming of the three horror film stars PeterCushing,Christopher Lee and Vincent Price.Unfortunately, the three of them are given less than meaty roles and onlyPrice and Lee actually appear on screen together at the end! It's a bitofa rip-off! (Peter Cushing only has one scene lasting a few minutes).Nevertheless, the plot, which deals with the creation of super-beings inorder to infiltrate positions of power across the world, is welcominglyoriginal and ambitious. Sadly, the complexities of such a plot prove toodifficult to convey on screen and the film becomes fragmented withsituations and characters that are not sufficiently developed orexplained.It is a memorable film in it's own way and I would recommend anybody towatch it, given that it is "different" to many other sci-fi/horrorfilms.One performance that stands out, is that of Alfred Marks as Supt.Bellaver -a no-nonsense, straight-talking and quite humourous character, who stealsevery scene he is in. This is quite remarkable given the actors aroundhim,but his character is one of the few to have any substance in this film....

gridoon 2012-05-12 21:44:50

Disconnected, awful horror film.

Three of the most famous horror stars appear in this film, but don't befooled - it's definitely a complete dud, an incoherent, unbelievably badpastiche of disconnected scenes. Peter Cushing's role is little more than acameo and Christopher Lee just drops in and out of a few sequences. OnlyVincent Price has some substantial screen time in the final 20 minutes -which is the only part of the movie that saves it from being utter trash. (*1/2)

2012-05-12 13:20:38

Weak But Watchable Gruesome Twosome

Vincent Price and American International Pictures were at a lull in their respective careers - the Dr. Phibes films and Theater of Blood, which revived them both, were just around the corner - when these two were churned out. Neither film is that good, though Scream and Scream Again was quite successful, both critically and commercially, at the time - which is ironic, since it's the weaker of the two.Scream and Scream Again is a weak updated Frankenstein ripoff, with Price - in virtually nothing more than a cameo role - utilizing a synthetic process to graft and reanimate dead tissues into superhuman pseudo-living "proto-people." The plot sounds better than the movie is. Director Gordon Hessler put plenty of gruesome gore effects and gallons of blood into the mix, but missed the boat (along with screenwriter Christopher Wicking) on plot development - the movie is disjointed and often incomprehensible. I've seen it a couple of times, once even not that long ago, and really couldn't tell you precisely what happens. Except for the occasional splashes of gore, it just isn't really that memorable.The Oblong Box, directed the preceding year by Hessler, is the better of the two, but still nothing worth writing home about. Price sells out his brother for fame and fortune while the two are on expedition in Africa, grotesquely disfiguring him and burying him alive. The brother manages to escape and pursue Price back to England, there to work out his own bit of personal revenge. The plot and makeup effects are pretty good, but the script is on the plodding side.Christopher Lee is on hand in both films - he and Price met, making them - but has little more to do than Price in the first. They both get more action in The Oblong Box. And Peter Cushing has a role as an ex-Nazi, in Scream and Scream Again.These films are for serious collectors who want a complete - or at least representative - collection of AIP's or Vincent Price's (or Christopher Lee's, for that matter) output. The idly curious will be disappointed.

She who is bored 2012-05-11 00:54:05

Yuck!

The only reason I don't give this movie a full "F" is because of the stars like Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing. Of course they were only in it for a short period of time. Peter Cushing's name was third in the credits and he was only in the movie for two minutes! I think they just wanted to get some big names so they could make this ridiculous movie. So don't waste the time.

2012-05-10 11:16:07

One good, one bad movie

Just as Karloff, Lugosi and Chaney were the horror actors of the 1930s and 1940s, the 1960s belonged to the trinity of Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. While Lee and Cushing worked together often, collaborations with Price were much less frequent. This DVD offers two such rare collaborations. Scream and Scream Again is definitely the better of the two movies. It has its flaws: the plot is overly complicated and certain plot lines don't tie together for a long time, if truly ever. The story has something to do with a mad scientist (Price) who is performing mysterious experiments and a serial killer who frequents discos and is seemingly unkillable. Add to all this some intrigue with a East German-country, and you have a mess, but somehow a fun one. Although billed as starring all three actors, this is misleading. Cushing is in the movie for all of five minutes, Lee not much longer. Only Price has a significant role, and even he's got a relatively small part. On the other hand, both Lee and Price have significant roles in the Oblong Box. Unfortunately, this movie is pretty weak. Price plays a wealthy gentleman who has just returned from his African plantation, where his brother was hideously deformed as part of a native ritual. The brother, confined to Price's house, fakes his death and is buried alive, only to wind up in the custody of some grave robbers, who sell him to Lee, a doctor who hides him. The brother's quest for revenge occupies the rest of the movie. The Oblong Box is pretty slow-moving and suspenseless, and even the big payoff, seeing the deformed brother's face at long last, is a disappointment: he's hardly scary or even grotesque. At best, these are minor horror movies; for big fans of the genre, especially from the 1960s and 1970s, it may be worth watching. Others should find their thrills elsewhere

bensonmum2 2012-05-02 00:39:55

"That bloody chicken wasn't killed, it died of old age."

What a bizarre movie! Scream and Scream Again is all over the place.It's a combination horror/sci-fi/mystery/espionage/thriller with sortof a James Bond twist. And it's a lot of fun.To be honest, at the beginning of the film, I was lost. There are aboutfour different plot lines that don't seem to have anything to do witheach other. (1) There is a runner who collapses. Every time we see himafter the collapse, he's in a hospital losing his limbs one at a time.(2) There is a vampire killer on the prowl in London. He attacks youngwomen and drains them of their blood. (3) There are scenes of somefascist regime in some unknown country. The leaders of the regime arebeing killed one at a time. Also, people are being tortured for noapparent reason. (4) There are discussions going on in the uppermostlevels of the British government that appear to have nothing to do withanything else. But, by the end of the film, most everything fitstogether quite nicely as a story about creating a master race.Scream and Scream Again 'stars' Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, andPeter Cushing. I say 'stars' because Christopher Lee and Peter Cushingare barely in the movie. In fact, Cushing has all of about 5 minutes ofscreen time. Alfred Marks as Supt.Bellaver is actually the star. He's ano nonsense policeman investigating the string of murders in London. Inthe end though, Price takes over and is wonderful. His mad doctorroutine is terrific to watch.There are some excellent moments in the film worth mentioning. Thechase scene is one of the longest I've ever seen, ending with thekiller losing a hand after being handcuffed to the front of a car.Another is the fight scene at the end between Vincent Price and leaderof the fascists. There are also moments of tension as when the youngdoctor is snooping around Vincent Price's house.This is a movie that you have to be patient with. Trust me, it allmakes sense in the end.

Hal-900 2012-05-01 18:14:25

Cast Of Horror Icons Make The Movie Fun To Watch

The film is a big mess of ideas. It tries to do too much. Part copdrama, part spy thriller, part vampire movie, part sci-fi mumbo-jumbo,this movie makes little sense until we get to see how all threads cometogether near the end of the film. I guess a great director could haveturned this film into something really special, but as it is, the movieis never boring, if a tad overcomplicated. Biggest disappointment wasto find out that despite their prominent billing, Vincent Price,Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing have glorified cameos. Plus they donot share any screen time, which is not a wise idea when you aredealing with iconic figures of the horror genre. Regardless of mycomplaints, this is an entertaining movie, very interesting in terms ofits unusual plot structure. The very 1960s psychedelic music score isterrible, though. Definitely Hessler's best movie of his erratic moviecareer.

2012-04-24 23:32:35

TRIPLE DISTILLED HORROR... maybe a little watered down

The Oblong Box - Not a bad movie...deals with voodoo and revenge. Vincent Price plays Sir Julian Markham, an aristocrat, charged with the care of his brother, Edward, who was horribly disfigured in a voodoo ritual as punishment for some apparent crime he committed against the native tribe. Edward's face is messed up, along with his mind, and creates a devious plan to escape from his brother, who keeps him locked away in the attic. Well, the best-laid plans and such...something goes wrong, and Edward gets buried alive, but manages to escape and plots revenge. Christopher Lee has a bit part as an unscrupulous surgeon who performs experiments on freshly dead and buried bodies. The movie seems a little long-winded, and I felt about ten or fifteen minutes could have been shaved off, but no matter. The movie was passable, even though I saw the surprise ending coming a mile away. The second feature was much more difficult to watch. Scream and Scream Again was a big mess of a movie. The first hour of the movie jumps between three different plot threads, and finally gets around to trying to tying them together late into the movie. The first thread involves a man who wakes up in a hospital room and only to find a limb missing. He wakes up at some later point, another limb is missing, and so on...the second thread involves Vincent Price as a doctor and a serial killer...the third involves a plot within a military state (the solders look Nazi in the way they dress, but the insignia is different). I ultimately think this movie was about the creation of a super race of human beings, but the scope of the story was too wide to convey this accurately. As I said, it's difficult to follow this movie until about an hour in, when they start to try and tie the loose plot threads together, but not very successfully. Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing make appearances, for like five minutes each, and Vincent price shows up early for a short bit and then at the end for like 15 minutes. The quality on both pictures is pretty good and the audio is not too bad, although on Scream and Scream Again, I felt the dialogue got drowned out by the music at some points, causing it to become muddled. A couple of trailers, and that is it for extras. I like how MGM seems to now be releasing their Midnight Movies in a two for one deal, as if I had paid full price for one of these movies, I would have felt ripped off.

DQ 2012-04-24 06:05:27

This Movie Helped Me Gave Me A Fondness for Horror

I completely DISAGREE with the person who gave the movie a Grade F. The movie, was not great, but was entertaining. I loved that there was the trio of fine, horror/character actors in the flick, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Vincent Price. I loved the opening scene where the music plays and the jogger is out there running and later finds himself held captive in a clinic of some sort. Each day, he finds a different body part missing as he lifts up his blanket and he screams. Hence the title, "Scream and Scream Again." To this day, I remember that opening scene.I do feel that the plot could have been hashed out more with more information on who was making this army of superhuman people, for what purpose, and what would this army do in the future? The characters were interesting. The story had a mad doctor removing body parts for experiments (the great Price); a Nazi-like military compound holding some people hostage; a vampire with super-human strength who preys on young women at a nightclub; and a government operative (the great Lee) who has the knack to kill with his fingers.

Jerry-93 2012-04-17 16:29:39

Lee, Cushing, and Price, Oh My!!

This film was released before I was born, so I don't know anythingabout its ad campaign, but I imagine it went something like, "Lee,Cushing, and Price: Together at Last!!" This is true: they all are inthis movie, but what we have here is a movie about a bunch ofpseudo-Nazis (complete with knockoff uniforms) trying to create themaster race by assembling people from assorted "perfect" body parts.Price has a substantial supporting role, but Cushing and Lee havebasically cameos, and none of them share any meaningful screen time.So, basically, they are together in the credits only.Now for the movie. Yes, it has a solid plot, but the movie doesn'tfollow it. It mostly has to do with the police tracking one of"composite" superhumans as he goes on a rape and murder spree. Thisdoes make for two of the best moments of the movie: when the killer,handcuffed to a car bumper, tears off not only his hand to escape, buta third of his forearm. The other is when a killer falls off a mountainand barely gets a scratch.The real highlight is the final 20 minutes, when Price explains, inclassic Bad Guy fashion, the entire master race thing to the hero.Price is a great actor, but he's a terrible doctor, because 1) he putson his own surgical gloves, and 2) contaminates them 10 seconds later.A fight ensues between Price and the head of the fake Gestapo, andthat's it. I don't know if I can recommend this movie to anyone,because fans of the three horror institutions in this film will bedisappointed, as will genre fans. Watch it if you're bored, or for thegoofy dialogue.

2012-04-17 04:49:18

Price Hessler & Wicking Double Bill

Another excellent release from the Midnight Movie series of double features gives us the first and second collaborations of director Gordon Hessler & screenwriter Christopher Wicking. The first is `The Oblong Box'. Replacing the tragic Michael Reeves as director and getting Wicking to rewrite Laurence Huntingdon's script, Hessler's first AIP horror film isn't by any means a bad effort, beautifully shot and with some nice performances by Price and AIP's then-current scream queen Hilary Dwyer.Of course, it's the second film, `Scream & Scream Again', that we have all been waiting for. Subject of one of Tim Lucas' very first Video Watchdog columns before he made it into a magazine, this has until now only been available on home video with a different music score composed by Kendall Schmidt, replacing the original music composed by David Whitaker. Well, the Whitaker score is now back, and its interesting to watch the film having got so used to Schmidt's electronic doodlings, which it turns out actually weren't that bad. In fact sometimes his score is better than Whitaker's own jazz-inspired music, which in places is quite inappropriate to the action taking place on screen. Some of the reviews on this site have criticized the plotting. Certainly Hessler & Wicking have always maintained that the fragmentary disjointed nature of the story was always intentional. Anyone who has read the original novel `The Disorientated Man' by "Peter Saxon" (a pseudonym for any number of writers working at that particular publishing house at that time) will know that the novel is constructed like that anyway, possibly because multiple writers may have contributed to it. `We took out the blobs from space' said Wicking in an interview, but to be honest they don't seem to have done much else. On the other hand, the original screenplay was written by Milton Subotsky who put everything into logical order, so maybe Hessler and Wicking deserve praise simply for going with a different kind of narrative style. Certainly `Scream & Scream Again' has often been beloved of `art-house horror' critics who have praised its paranoid conspiracy plotline. At least now we get to see it in 1:1.85 and with the original music as intended

2012-04-14 12:31:20

Strictly for film students and music historians

Scream and Scream Again is a rather astounding assemblage of film and sound clips that are fantastic to the trained eye and a bewildering mess to someone expecting a movie of the horror genre. As a film, it's much less than the sum of its parts. I'll avoid addressing the film as the other reviews give it proper treatment and stick to discussing scenes and sound production.Record collectors and music historians are in for a complete treat. The soundtrack is done by none other than Shel Talmy and its fantastic! Everything he learned making the best music ever recorded by The Who, The Kinks, The Creation and a pubescent David Bowie are brought to bear in this production. Freakbeat fans are in for a real treat with two nightclub numbers by Amen Corner along with dancing crowds dressed in Carnaby Street's finest fashions c. 1968-69. The music is only occasionally in-sync with the plot line and does little to help the story.Set designers will drool over the above nightclub scenes and many long-panning sequences of swinging London and the English countryside c. 1969 with racing Jaguars, MG's and Bentleys. The purple poofy shirt of the nightclub vampire killer is all you need to start your own mod-psych-pop band. Lee, Cushing and the English cast get to stroll around in fantastic wardrobe. Lee is surprisingly strong and believable as a government heavy even though he's barely got two pages of dialog in the film. Surprisingly, nobody on this thread has mentioned the ~30 second uncredited cameo of Boris Karloff as a forensic pathologist for the government trying to dissect the vampire's hand. A rare easter egg as the role is appropriately played purely for humor. Many of the other sets are elaborate, shot at strange angles, use funky lighting and provide better things to look at than attempting to follow the weak plot. It's even stranger that many of the actors provide excellent work for such an atrocious script. I'll assume most of them read the book beforehand and had definite opinions on how they wanted to play their respective role. Naturally, the film decides to focus on the least interesting actors in this piece. It's easy to see how this film was influenced by The Prisoner and in turn influenced Cronenberg in Videodrome.

ricpantale 2012-04-13 19:24:09

Awful waste of talent

This movie is so bad that anyone who enjoys it is beyond help.What a waste of talent...The movie doesn't make sense, is badlydirected, has a jazz score (For a horror film?) It's like a group ofHigh School students with a little money made this.Usually the Brits can do no wrong in making a movie..Wow,I'm surprised.Where was Hammer when you needed them?Made in 1970, there are some surprising scenes of sexuality.It's clear Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing needed topay their car payments, or else how would they ever agree to evenappear in this mess.

stmichaeldet 2012-04-08 18:04:59

The Curse of Ambition

Scream and Scream Again seems to want to be a very deep and complicatedfilm. After all, it starts out by presenting three different, andapparently unrelated, plot lines, introduces new characters seeminglyat the writers whim through the run time, and seems to pride itself ona grim and "realistic" portrayal of violence and death (while stillallowing itself plenty of latitude for shock sequences andsuper-powered antagonists). Does it all work? Well, not entirely, but Ihave to give it some credit for trying.Let's start with the biggest problem I have with this film, thebait-and-switch billing. Price, Lee, and Cushing sit majestically atthe top of the credits, yet get precious little screen time, virtuallynone of it shared. Price is a doctor/mad scientist introduced early on,and then forgotten until the film starts winding down, Cushing has onescene and then dies, and Lee isn't even introduced until late in thefilm, where he serves as a plot device to tie everything together andwrap up.Then there's the whole three-plot lines thing. The bulk of the filmfollows a police inspector on the trail of a psychotic, blood drinking,super-strong serial killer. (Gee, could he be a vampire? Ummmm... well,no.) Alongside that we have the story of a spy for some unnamed,oppressive regime. The over-the-top tone of these scenes clashes withthe more mannered presentation of the inspector's story. The costumesand sets suggest a combination of Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany, andrampant Satanism. (Sure, the symbol displayed on armbands, banners,windows, and any other available surface is probably supposed to evokethe bundled arrows of fascism, but it looks more like the head of ademonic pitchfork to me.) Then we have a series of scenes about a manwho collapses while out jogging, and finds himself in a hospital room,where he is kept sedated most of the time while his limbs are graduallystolen in off-camera surgeries. None of this seems connected in any wayuntil the end, when the true plot is revealed, and turns out to besomething not particularly suggested by anything in the film up to thatpoint.Theoretically, this movie could still have worked, and if they hadpulled it off, it might have been quite clever. But, even beyond themismatched feel of the three plot lines, there are other problems whichmake SaSA feel like several different films forced to share one screen.The inspector becomes irrelevant to his own plot once things getrolling, his leading-man status usurped by the young assistant coroner,who was no more than a minor player for the whole first half of thefilm. The psycho leaves a nightclub with his latest victim, just intime to go out for "one last drink," and is followed and eventuallychased by the police... in broad daylight. Apparently, the bars inEngland close much earlier than I thought. Add in an unnecessary shockscene or two (like the evil spy's interrogation of a pretty would-bedefector, which doesn't seem to have any connection to the rest of thefilm), and you're starting to make a real mess of things.Still, the resolution, while coming out of left field, does do areasonable job of tying things together. But I still cannot recommendthis film, mainly because I still feel cheated at the under-utilizationof three of the greatest horror actors of all time.

Boba_Fett1138 2012-04-08 06:05:38

Pretty bad, considering everything.

This is a movie starring horror icons Christopher Lee, Vincent Priceand Peter Cushing but yet it is still a movie only a handful of peopleknow off and have actually seen. There really is a very simpleexplanation for that; the movie just really isn't that good.The main and biggest problem I had with this movie was that for 75% youhave absolutely no idea what is going on and what its mystery is allsupposed to be about. It's all being told so vaguely and loosely thatyou simply start to give up to try and make sense of it all. It's ofcourse fine for a movie to be mysterious but they should at least hadgiven the audience something and should have had explained certainthings far earlier in the movie. Now, when the big 'twists' comes youjust don't care about it anymore because everything that came before itwas told in such a terribly non-engaging and uninteresting way.Even after finishing this movie, it still leaves far more questionsthan answers. Some things simply happen in the movie and you have totake a lot of things for granted. Such as for instance; what was withthat whole Nazi-like group of people? Who or what were they supposed tobe or represent and why and how exactly were they in so much control ofthings?I can definitely recognize the movie for what it was trying to be anddo and I also still could really appreciate it for that. It tried to bemore like early '60's mystery movies, that often involved a detectivein the search off a killer and it often had a sort ofhorror/science-fiction twist and vibe to it all. And it's still trulybeing such a movie with its atmosphere, characters, main plot, musicand 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 watchablebecause it features Cushing, Lee and Price in it but the truth is thatmost of them are hardly in this movie at all and they get far toolittle 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 evenrecognized him since he's using such a thick British accent in thismovie and he really isn't using his own, very distinctive, voice atall. I still really liked him in his role and I though he did a greatjob at it but still his character was a bit of a stiff one and not allthat 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 thepoint of Cushing's character in this? And Price only shows up a coupleof times and suddenly only starts to get more important toward themovie its end.It definitely does has some value to it and the movie also still hasits moments but overall it's a far too messily told and written movieto become a good one.5/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Wayne Malin 2012-04-07 07:19:18

Nice title...that's about it

VERY confusing horror has three different story lines: one involves aman killing women in London and draining their blood; another haspeople being kidnapped and slowly have their body parts being removedone by one; the last deals with some strange Nazi-ish organizationtrying to take power (or something). It all ties in with Vincent Priceas a scientist.The movie starts off confusing and it (somewhat) makes sense at theend. But it has a horrible script, terribly fake gore and directorGordon Hessler never was that good. This could be easily dismissed ifit weren't for three cast members--Price, Peter Cushing and ChristopherLee.OK--you have three of the best horror movie stars ever to do a movietogether. So what do they do? Give them a nonsensical script; giveCushing only one short sequence; make sure they NEVER show up together(aside from Lee and Price briefly) and just hope it will work. Well, itdidn't.I know some people find this fascinating for its political implicationsbut this is supposed to be a HORROR movie--not a political statement.Dull, heavy-handed and a terrible waste of talent--although Cushing,Lee and Price ARE good. Just for them I give this a 4.

Eyesore_is_cool 2012-04-06 15:49:53

Early 1970's filming at its best..

I assume that everyone who's seen this and rated it badly is either a)very very young b) has never seen another old movie in their life or c)both. There's absolutely no reason, when compared to films of the sameera, can you rate this movie poorly, and I suspect that aside fromtheir clear lack of any knowledge of film that all the people whothought this movie was "bad" were just disappointed at the fact thatPrice, Lee, and Cushing had comparatively minor roles.Indeed, I bought this as a Christopher Lee fan and was disappointed inthat respect, but the movie was still good! I'm an actor myself and Iwas furious that the people playing the lead roles were extremelybland, but I still found this movie amazing in terms of the absurdityof the plot and just how entertaining and engaging it is overall. Agood plot can redeem bad actors, but the reverse is never true.I don't feel I need to give a plot summary but I'll say this: don't buythis if the only reason you'd want to is to see Christopher Lee orPeter Cushing-their performances are good and their characters areinteresting, but they don't have a lot of screen time. Vincent Pricesteals the show at the end but again, for Price fans, he doesn't have alot of lines if that's what you're looking for.Just, when you rate this or any movie, compare it to the standards ofthat time. I give this movie a 10 because it's currently my favoritemovie from that era, of any genre.