I remember a cinema viewing of this (the most complete version I've seen), then a TV broadcast, then a video, and in more recent years a DVD. All versions were different with scenes cut, & re-edited, plus the music variations: There is a scene with a coroner kissing a corpse before being disturbed, a scene where the hitchhiking man & woman are being tortured – especially the man. Other scenes with Alfred Marks bringing down Michael Gothard, using a weapon in the quarry & worst of all: a shortened scene involving Lee & Price talking. I'm told there are other cuts at the end too - but I can only remember what I have mentioned. Because of this & the fact a lot of these scenes have never been restored (or maybe others out there have the more complete versions), I'm afraid the forthcoming Blu-Ray could be a real letdown; unless it has an extras section. If it hasn't, what would be the point of another edited release? This movie was a big enough mishmash in the first place!

This is a perplexing yet oddly compulsive grab bag of weird set-pieces and half-baked ideas. In some ways, it's quite unique and in others thoroughly familiar. It veers all over the place, avoids exposition like the plague and explains incredibly little. The narrative jumps around from one thing to another, dropping plot-holes and unanswered questions like breadcrumbs in a forest populated by ravenous breadcrumb-eating birds.A man wakes up in a hospital bed. When he pulls back the sheets his leg has been amputated. He screams. This happens twice more – and each time a limb has been removed. He screams. He becomes a living torso on a bed. He is seen one final time as a severed head in a freezer compartment. This is much later on.Meanwhile a serial killer is beating, throttling, raping, throat-slashing and draining the blood from dolly-bird victims in London. Detective Bellaver (Alfred Marks) is on the case with his thick-eared plod underlings. They all give much the same impression of being largely unable to detect an elephant with dysentery in a snowstorm.Elsewhere, in an unnamed totalitarian state (probably someplace in Europe) Konratz (Marshall Jones) is portrayed as a high-ranking military official. The troops look like Nazi-Commie hybrids and sport a swastika-like symbol. Konratz murders his superior (Peter Sallis) by gripping his shoulder with one hand and squeezing until he dies. It's like the Vulcan neck pinch only it isn't.Back in London the serial-killer is revealed to be Keith (Michael Gothard) who picks up a dolly-bird at a music club where The Amen Corner (actually Amen Corner) are performing a song entitled "Scream And Scream Again." He drives her to a secluded spot and beats the living crap out of her. Next time we see her she's naked on a mortuary slab.Enter Vincent Price as Dr Browning (you can bet it's all gravy for him). He runs a clinic in the countryside where one of the victims worked. Odds are he's somehow involved in all this.Back in Nazi-Commie land, Konratz is carpeted and demoted by his other superior Major Benedek (Peter Cushing) for extreme brutality and torture/murder of suspects. Konratz responds by squeezing Benedek's shoulder and killing him.Then in London serial killer Keith is honey-trapped by an undercover policewoman. He evades capture by tearing off his own handcuffed hand, running to Dr Browning's residence and in a really inspired move hurls himself into a vat of sulphuric acid in a barn. Which is one way of doing it, I suppose.Oh look, now here comes Christopher Lee who appears as Fremont, a government agent involved in shady dealings and political machinations with Konratz.All of this is just the tip of a very convoluted iceberg to be honest. The rest boils down to a Frankenstein re-jig with Vince creating super-human "composite" people from body parts and synthetic materials to bring about world peace and the eradication of disease. Not sure how this works as it will be achieved by Nazi-Commie Konratz who will use them as super-soldiers. Is it just me or are the methods incompatible with the aims here. Konratz turns out to be a "composite." As does serial-killer Keith (RIP). As does the nurse. As does Chris Lee. As does Vince.Wait a minute. Vince makes the composites. If he's one, then who made Vince? Ah-ha, clearly a story for another time.There is plenty of action and a standout car chase so well choreographed and shot that it feels like it ought to belong to a much more prestigious and expensive project. This is back in the days when driving stunts were done for real and stunt-men risked life and limb, unlike that computer-generated Furiously Fast dreck we get today. The vehicles are old and cumbersome, vintage by today's standards. But watching you can almost feel the strain and struggle taking place as a 1969 Jaguar S-Type takes a hairpin bend at speed with a squeal of brakes and a scream of grinding chassis.Much of the film seems to have been shot in perpetual twilight, and this adds a certain distinct atmosphere to the murder set-piece and Keith's increasingly desperate and violent attempts to evade capture. The confrontation with police in the chalk quarry culminating in his leaving his hand behind, still handcuffed to the bumper of a squad car, and then throwing himself into a vat of acid is a particularly gruesome delight.There's mileage in almost any film to feature the triad of Vince Price, Chris Lee and Pete Cushing – even though the first two share no screen time with the latter. In fact, for Cushing it was one day's work and it's little more than a cameo appearance.I'm uncertain if SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN has achieved cult status in any quarters, but I'd be surprised if it hasn't. It predates by a significant time frame any number of other cult movies that have cribbed some of its' ideas even if the makers of those films are unaware of its' influence or even its' existence.If you fancy a fix of weird and off the wall horror-thriller action and are prepared to suspend logic and disbelief a little more vehemently than usual then you could do far worse.

A killer who has a literal thirst for blood is prowling the nightclubs for fresh young victims. The police decide to set a trap to catch this man. A young policewoman poses as his new victim while wearing a wire. The killer meets the young policewoman and takes her with him to a secluded spot where he proceeds to drink her blood...Vincent Price in interviews a number of years after the film was made, said he never understood the script at all. Not surprising, as the novel featured aliens and the film changed them to Communists (or something like that). And that is probably the least of the problems...I mean, the choking of women and the pointless blood sucking? A jogger who is getting his legs removed? Yellow acid for some sort of research? It does not really all add up. Really sweet cars, though.Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee appear, though not much. Heck, even Vincent Price does not really show up until the second half. But if you like these guys, do not mind waiting, and are okay with not really understanding what you are watching, check this one out.

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 badly directed, has a jazz score (For a horror film?) It's like a group of High 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 to pay their car payments, or else how would they ever agree to even appear in this mess.