Dark Corners - Vincent Price's Scream and Scream Again: Review

[@sgtprestonoftheyukon2423]

I saw this movie in the theater when I was 10 yrs old. I thought Vince price was the creepiest man alive. Shortly after this he was a guest on the merv Griffin show. And then I found out he was one of the most cultured men in Hollywood !!!! . And he had a great sense of humor. I was a huge fan of his work after that . Rest in peace

[@FnRenner]

Price was a Yale graduate and his numerous late night interviews are good watches even in 2022.

[@TheMadAfrican1]

Apparently, from all sources, he was also one of the sweetest men alive. Much like Peter Cushing, who was supposedly a "darling". I love this. It just makes me happy that these were just lovely people.

[@ArizonaJoeHines]

I saw this in Vietnam. We found the subplot of the runner losing limbs to be profoundly disturbing. We worried far more about being badly maimed than about dying.

[@joaopedrogoncalves7741]

I’m so terribly sorry for your experiences.

[@mariakelly1059]

Thank you for your service.

[@berliner0]

@@mariakelly1059 god bless

[@archlich4489]

Thank you for your service. Be well!

[@danddoty3981]

what is all about? Vincent Price totally memorized all his scripts. when asked VP what this movie was about , all he said was " I have no idea. "

[@docdeth904]

2:34 Thing makes a cameo?! I was almost flabbergasted. Quoting Zaphod Beeblebrox... I give you 100 points for style and several million for good taste in your reading choices.

[@Smifff37]

I remember seeing this as a kid (my parents were ill-advised enough to let us have a telly in our room). I had nightmares about the guy in the hospital bed for years, so it can't be all bad...

[@connorbrennan4233]

Crowbaring in a film title? Well, here's one: Before the opening titles for Deathstalker 2, this evil woman says to her henchmen, "I'll have my revenge, and Deathstalker too." Cut to the title.

[@christopherwall2121]

Now that's next-level

[@tylerskiss]

I thought that was rather clever myself.

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

To be fair, it is a comedy (unlike the awful original).

[@Ernest-vd4mu]

The poster was enough to make a young horror fan want to see it. So I did.

[@geoffjoffy]

I saw this years ago, when I was a kid, and couldn't understand what it was about, so switched it off. But I watched it again last night and it was much better than I'd remembered it. It's a confusing film but you have to stick with it.

[@jerryrichardson2799]

I read the novel it's based on and watched the movie a couple of times, and I like it. I read somewhere that the director hated the movie and deliberately gave it a bad cut, and then was surprised when it actually made money. There's science fiction elements in both the novel and the movie. The novel wound up being a group project by a few English editors as a side project to make money, under a pen name.

[@kennethhodges3187]

As Vincent Price once said about this film 'It didn't seem to make much sense! The surprise performance from this film was that of Alfred Marks, but sadly all three main stars were not used to best advantage! However, this complex film does benefit from repeated viewings!

[@michaeldenney9752]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this mark Price's first appearance in Dark Corners? Yay!

[@DarkCornersReviews]

There is a dedicated viewer. Yes this is the first apperance of Price in over 200 reviews.

[@danddoty3981]

Wait till you see Price in DR. GOLDFOOT AND HIS GIRL BOMBS. It makes S.A.S look like CITIZEN KANE.

[@randyacuna3248]

Dan D Doty but it does have a lot of stunning girls.

[@janeeggleston9542]

References to Monty Python and Hitchhiker’s Guide? You are spoiling us!

[@donaldpetkus1637]

Consider reviewing either or both of the Doctor Phibes films with Vincent Price.

[@trashcanhands19]

Despite the camp, the two Dr. Phibes flicks are probably my favorite Price movies

[@brucefritzges8759]

@@trashcanhands19 hi

[@mattfritz1]

Surprising its director, Gordon Hessler, was responsible for making "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad," the best Harryhausen Sinbad film.

[@AdamqK]

Damn, I love your reviews. And your choice of films - this is another one I caught late night on US TV when I was a kid, and thought I must have dreamed it, as it hardly made any sense at all, but contained many disturbing scenes, mainly involving that "vulcan death pinch". Even poor Peter "Wallace & Gromit" Sallis doesn't make it to the final credits. Fascinating ingredients, but one whacked-out cake.

[@annnichols3091]

I enjoyed the Monty Python lines you used while reviewing the first story. I also share your feelings about having Price, Lee, & Cushing being given top billing when they have so little time. The only reason my sister and I went to see "Congo" was because Bruce Campbell was in it, and look at how little time he had.

[@tskmaster3837]

The Creature from the Haunted Sea's title had a double crow-barring, first when they put the title into a song and then again when they put the song directly into the movie song by the female lead... while the ship was being searched by the Cuban government? What an odd yet strangely awesome movie. This movie was the Lost Skeleton of Cadevera of its time... made by the man who made some of the movies that were the basis for Lost Skeleton done at the time he was making such movies.

[@mariakelly1059]

Vincent Price didn't limit himself to just horror movies. He was terrific in the film noir classic Laura.

[@nickmitsialis]

Or comic action hero like in 'His Kind of Woman,' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Kind_of_Woman starring against Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell and Raymond Burr.

[@ThreadBomb]

That immortal line from Star Trek: First Contact: "And you people, you're all astronauts, ... on some kind of star trek?"

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

Yikes!

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

1:37 this actor looks eerily like Jeroen Krabbe who played the false defector in the James Bond movie ''The Living Daylight'' with Timothy Dalton.

[@d.l.parham157]

I'm late to this party but I just saw this review, and I remembered what nightmares this movie gave me. All I remembered was the dismembering of the long distance runner (not a spoiler...it starts the movie off), and I decided to finally see the film again now that I am much older. Some of the reviews said the villains started out as aliens rather than totalitarians and out-of-control scientists (that doesn't help but it might explain some of the mysterious powers they seem to have). Such a waste of talent in having Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, and Vincent Price in the film so briefly, but Lee got the best wardrobe (maybe it was his own). It was amusing to see the police were so casual about walking away from evidence and suspects...smug arrogance seemed to be the problem. I half expected John Steele and Emma Peel to show up...there were times when the soundtrack sounded like a rift from "The Avengers," and certainly the movie could have used an effective character to represent humanity. As it is, the ending is rather bleak, though I suppose inevitable as it tries to pull its separate strands together. Anyway, thank you for keeping this review online....I quite appreciate having the chance to clarify this particular childhood memory..

[@jimr6560]

You finally did one I requested for Vincent price ✋🏼legend thank u

[@mariakelly1059]

Commander Spock called. He wants his Vulcan Nerve Pinch back.

[@nylaandrew]

"What's New, Pussycat?" wins the Crowbar Gold Medal

[@Gomrath]

What film is that playing at 4:40 in the top left frame?

[@robins5314]

All 3 of them were born between 26-27th of May!

[@anthonymunn8633]

I read the novel it was based on years ago.The connection that all three strands have is...aliens.

[@jerryrichardson2799]

Yeah, it seemed to have a sci-fi element.

[@kurtkurt8444]

The german dubbed version of this movie is called, transleted back to english, "The living dead of Doctor Mabuse"! Yeah, Mr Price is Mabuse!

[@ShanghaiRooster]

You have to love national distributors back in the day. Sticking to Germany, one of the Sartana spaghetti westerns was renamed to crowbar Django in, whilst for Gamera vs Jiger (I think) the Frankenstein name was bludgeoned in somehow! 😂

[@dirkjenkinz595]

I actually enjoyed this film both times I saw it. It's flaws are its strengths.

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

David Lynch ..... cliffnotes LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL Crowbar: "Grease is the word...."

[@euansmith3699]

The cast is exemplary; it even has Peter Sallis and Michael Gothard.

[@colleencrouch4346]

Worth watching just for Christopher Lee, who looks very nice and has a couple of good scenes.

[@VonWenk]

I don't think I considered the police inspector the lead character, but I do seem to remember, during the chase scene, a clip of him directing the pursuit being repeated, complete with dialogue. I'm surprised you didn't pick up on that unless what I remember was just a TV edit.

[@michaelbailes2223]

How can a film with Price, Lee and Cushing in be so bad?

[@ajivins1]

They're hardly in it...

[@salminio5777]

"Man was he right" da last (10 min ) is it over sir "This only the Beginning" 50 years later

[@ThreadBomb]

They started with a turd of a script, so the film was always going to be bad. They should have started with the question "What if Price, Cushing and Lee were in a film together? Wouldn't that be amazing?" And proceed from there. Imagine if they had remade Karloff/Lugosi's The Black Cat, with three leads instead of two...

[@bax323]

The movie poster was cool though.

[@seymourskinner2533]

Love it when I find an old one

[@Philbert-s2c]

I saw this once, back in the 80's on local television. I still have no idea what it's about.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

Well Robin, once more you have sledgehammered the nail. ''Frustrating'' is the word. & exasperatingly so because it's not a bad movie, but it wasted our 3 favorite actors senselessly.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

2:36 The Addams Family's missed entrance.

[@alexashbourne6496]

I have a request: would you review Richard Williams' long lost animated film The Thief and the Cobbler for Dark Corners Classics?

[@ajivins1]

I keep getting this confused with 'And Now the Screaming Starts' which I think was about a riecarnated witch played by a young Gwynnith Strong...

[@andrewyoung2796]

What's the name of the werewolf movie with Peter Cushing?

[@ajivins1]

@@andrewyoung2796 The Beast Must Die?

[@ajivins1]

@@andrewyoung2796 I think that's the only one although I haven't seen the Olly Reed one in a while, not sure if he dead in that.

[@andrewyoung2796]

That's IT

[@skylx0812]

"Well I was born a *Coal Miners Daughter* ..."

[@snarqj]

Maximum Overdrive. "It's like the whole world has gone...Maximum Overdrive."

[@colleencrouch4346]

The only reason to watch this film is for Christopher Lee's scenes, especially outside with hat and umbrella! Also, I understand that the colour of the vat of "acid" into which he had to push Vincent Price was icky enough to make both old pros corpse!

[@thrashpondopons2776]

Blade Runner! (It's from a completely different story!) Also... you left out the best blooper at .21! After Mr. Lee's line, the gal in the backseat starts giggling as she thinks she is out-of-shot!

[@Nerval-kg9sm]

"Blade Runner" is the name of the sort of cops who hunt down replicants. The movie title wasn't hammered in.

[@thrashpondopons2776]

@@Nerval-kg9sm Actually the term comes from a 1974 Sci/Fi Novel & refers to an organization involved with what one could call Black-market Healthcare. Ridley Scott borrowed the term because he thought it sounded cool.

[@leebritnell2405]

Story is quite easy to follow,it's just that the film tries to be fresh and different from the usual fayre.The(middle-aged)studio execs hated it.Haunted House of Horror also disliked by the old guard,who cut and reshot parts of the film.The Sorcerors and Witchfinder General both caused intergenerational conflicts between the filmmakers and the studio execs.

[@Mark-lx8fh]

Great film

[@coyoteartist]

"The three plotlines converge in a chilling and unexpected climax." So claims Wikipedia.

[@varanid9]

So it's true! Wikipedia is unreliable.

[@coyoteartist]

@@varanid9 Now the funny thing is, while that statement seems to have been copied on any number of sites according to a search, it no longer on Wikipedia itself.

[@varanid9]

@@coyoteartist They were shamed into removing it haha

[@coyoteartist]

@@varanid9 I could well believe it

[@salminio5777]

"This only da beginning" man was he right

[@Nummymuffincocobutter]

Believe all 3 stars,Price especially,had no idea what the movie was about.....the poster looks cool though...

[@danddoty3981]

I think if we had the budget, we could remake this movie. Strange murders are happening across the country ( dismemberments found in one area , clowns killings in the dead of night on the coast , a machete gang murdering people and robbing a rural hospital , grave yards robbed and several care takers killed ) as if a plague of horror and insanity has struck. In our PD , three young women have been murdered ; their throats bitten open and their blood gone. Our hero investigates and finds a suspect , a young man with a history of mental illness who recently ran away from a private clinic / group home run by a researcher who claims to have a new treatments for mental illness. As the killer is cornered , he tasered , pepper sprayed , clubbed and finally shot. when the Cops think he is dead , jumps up and drives out a three story window , escaping into the woods at night. They trail him back to the clinic.

[@havareriksen1004]

We might remake the movie, but we could never replace Cushings, Lee or Price.

[@danddoty3981]

@@havareriksen1004 True.

[@Madmax-rz5hz]

Saw this on tv when i was a kid. The fate of the athlete gradually losing limbs horrified me

[@shadowartist8892]

I've long had a crush on Peter Cushing. Does that make me a necropolis or something?

[@skullbrother1]

I like the film, yeah it's a little unusual, in a Clockwork Orange type of way, but it's good fun.

[@Curtiz2008]

Saw this on a double bill with Dunwich Horror. About as coherent as Zardoz

[@lnwolf41]

I watched this long long ago, and the only part I really remember is the jogger losing his limbs in the hospital. 😅. "kill and kill again" ? a cult that uses a bull to kill people in a maze, while shipping out drugs, and a martial arts guy trying to infiltrate said cult.

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

This is a strangely confusing film. I think it was about an hour in before I realised that it wasn't a dystopian fascist near-future Britain, but scenes intercut between two different countries! Price does his best with what he's given, and Lee too with the even smaller amount he had, but the waste of Peter Cushing and (not mentioned in Robin's review, but briefly shown in it) Peter Sallis, is downright criminal. The longer version of the title song performed in the film is awful, too! Using my writer's time machine, I'd suggest setting the whole thing in the anonymous fascist country, and have Peter Cushing investigating a mystery including the "vampire killer", with maybe Peter Sallis as a superficially more unpleasant official warning him off (simply because Sallis is doing his job), with the two ultimately teaming up to confront Lee about Price, only to discover to their horror that it's not simply Price gone rogue but a conspiracy at the very heart of government (and not just their country's government).

[@aniseadhikari1667]

Had to make sure who Peter Sallis is before coming back to read this comment.

[@RavenHouseMystery]

I remember renting this film because of the three "stars" listed on the video box as well. Boy, was that a disappointment. Peter Cushing's scenes seemed to be shoe-horned in as an afterthought. As for another "crowbar film title", how about "Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors"? First of all, the film takes place on a train, not a house. Second, there is no Dr. Terror in the film, though Peter Cushing's character has a foreign name that translates to Terror. Finally, the "Dr. Terror" character uses tarot cards, which he calls his "House Of Horrors".

[@randyacuna3248]

Raven House Mystery dr. Terror is a great movie.

[@tecumsehcristero]

I would have never imagined Robin watches WWE

[@Jeffrey314159]

Crow-barring in a title? Like NAKED SPACE over SPACESHIP over THE CREATURE WASN'T NICE

[@TeatroGrotesco]

That nerve pinch on Cushing looked more like he was about to ask, "So, do you like gladiator movies?"

[@trull122]

The movie: Green slime has a ridiculous track called Green Slime.

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

You spelled "awesome" wrong. 😜

[@firstelvys]

Ouch!! This reminds me of those martial arts movies where it's obvious that it's 2 oe 3 unfinished films cobbled together by brand new filmed material...

[@ajivins1]

My brother was really into those and rented Fury of the Dragon with Bruce Lee! It turned out to be 3 or4 episodes of The Green Hornet stuck together with no plot-he has a moustache in some scenes, not in others and is suddenly attacked by tigers on a lawn for no reason! I loved it, it was hilarious!

[@mythgreatbritain5634]

The most horrifying part of the whole thing is the atrocious radio discipline at the end of your clip. NOBODY SAYS OVER AND OUT !!!

[@misternewoutlook5437]

What they call a guilty pleasure for me.

[@andrewyoung2796]

I agree. Misuse of stars

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

I hope they were paid well.

[@glentalbot9166]

Saw this confusing mess years ago. It's hasn't gotten any clearer with age. Like the theme song from Amen Corner though.

[@douglasmontgomery2063]

Jesus, this movie is a mess. The worst part is that Marshall Jones is miscredited as Peter Cushing in the trailer. Catchy theme song, though!

[@youdontgettoknow139]

The Haunted Palace is a pretty blatant case.

[@brianfuller5868]

I've seen this 3 times but I still can't tell you what the plot was..

[@Mattfromthepast]

Why?! all they had to do was get them all on screen together for one scene and I would have loved the movie regardless of what the rest of it was like, why couldn't they pull this off?!

[@amb163]

Hmmm. I'm still going to give this one a shot. Anything with these three is at least worth a shot, even if it's crap.

[@phudleyallenrippy]

Green Slime!!!

[@mikebowermaster4250]

Gamera. It's the only word in the song.

[@ShanghaiRooster]

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[@timeliebe]

FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN, for all the reasons you said. It shows Victor Frankenstein starting to grow something like a conscience, the "monster" is some poor woman driven by her lover's need for revenge, and for once Frankenstein's experiment is a success - except for that whole killing her lover's enemies thing.

[@CyberSpider35]

Well it's a shame really. 3 most powerful horror icons from 20th century deserves much better movie for their collaboration.

[@johnnedward1083]

It was campy terrible fun

[@jerryrichardson2799]

Campy, I agree.

[@haha-kq6rz]

For some reason, I really enjoy this stupid movie!.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

Me too, it's dumb and confusing yet still enjoyable I believe mostly due to its center plot with the cyborg vampire killer, which they could/should have concentrated on and skipped the rest because there's potential for a decent story in there somewhere. So much so, that I once made my own fan edit of it eliminating all the silly fluff with the fascist state, focusing on the killer angle only it works much better when watched this way. Shorter alas but watchable.

[@tonybush555]

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[@jaysonspirtos7313]

GREEN SLIME!

[@kevinanderson2249]

Horrible movie. But the 1-Sheet really sold the movie.

[@tylerskiss]

A View To A Kill has easily one of the worst, most forced cases of title crowbarring ever! The original title From A View To A Kill could have probably been written in somewhat easier, but the truncated version sounds so daft. Even Walken failed to make it sound cool, so you know it's some real crap.

[@mariakelly1059]

A View To A Kill was very campy and Roger Moore was way past his prime, but it was an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours.

[@Bizzarovid]

This film genuinely pissed me off. And that's pretty hard to do! I like some proper shit. It was the most subpar, boring experience I've had in quite a while and the utter disrespect in plastering the horror titans all over the poster and barely using them was what got me most considering that was the damn reason I was watching it! Also the poster is awesome! And does not represent the film in anyway other than there is acid pit but it's poorly used.

[@andrewgwilliam4831]

I completely understand! I really wanted to like this film, but it's practically a crime against cinema. Bah!

[@jamescappio7434]

It's a little outside the usual Dark Corners ambit, but Bond films had this shoehorn issue for a while. Specifically in FROM A VIEW TO A KILL and THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH. Seriously cringe, both.

[@itowmyhome797]

🎉

[@earlleeruhf3130]

Scream and Scream again in frustration over the complex plot and under use of talented actors.

[@ltlbuddha]

I'm the 666 like...Am I evil now?

[@beedubs230]

Between the squandering of its leads, mindless plot and sleazy atmosphere, I can’t think of a period horror I dislike more intensely than Scream and Scream Again. In a word, “Yuck”.

[@skylx0812]

DUNE

[@nathanwygal5526]

Oh, no... This movie IS horrendously bad...

[@plasticweapon]

no it isn't, stop whining.

[@lifeisgood2776]

All those egos! 🤣 🤣

[@plasticweapon]

and now yours! by the way, are you a famous, talented actor?

[@bentramer682]

Rocky Horror Shit Show

[@plasticweapon]

rocky horror WAS a shit show.

[@jamesmoore4087]

this film is so bad its good

[@plasticweapon]

nah, it's just good.