Load of rubbish!!

Lack of good storyline.

A Brilliant Conflict

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

Carry On Screaming is a very good movie with great humor and a well thought out storyline.I would say it was the best in the Carry On series out of the ones I've seen.I saw the film because I'm trying to watch all of the films in a countdown I watched called the 50 Greatest Comedy Films where Carry On Screaming was 49 and the only Carry On on the list.A woman goes missing while out in the woods with her boyfriend,the boyfriend and two detectives investigate with only piece of evidence being a hairy finger from where she was sitting.It turns out that she was stolen from a dead man brought back to life by his flirty sister where they turn people into wax figures and also clone 500 year old werewolf like creatures which is where the hairy finger came from.

The 'Carry On' films were always a bit hit or miss but thankfully this one was most definitely a hit as it spoofs the Hammer Horror films of the time with a plot that could have been lifted from one of Hammer's films and jokes that remain funny to this day. When a young man's girlfriend goes missing in a woods Sgt. Bung is called into investigate. Near the woods he finds a house occupied by brother and sister Orlando and Valeria Watt, there is something rather strange about them; not least the fact that their butler told the police that Orlando was dead yet he appears to be very much alive, this is due to a reanimation technique he has developed for himself and a strange creature which looks like a cross between Frankenstein's monster and the Wolfman. He is also responsible for the disappearance of the women; he has been submitting them to a procedure that turns them into lifelike shop dummies. Initially the police aren't that suspicious but clues lead them back to the house more than once and ultimately they must confront both the Watts and two monsters! This is one of the best 'Carry On' films; Harry H. Corbett did a good job in the role of Sgt. Bung and Sylvia Simm was great as his battleaxe of a wife, also notable were Fenella Fielding as the seductively vampish Valeria, Kenneth Williams as Orlando and Peter Butterworth as Constable Slobotham. The jokes where a good combination of laugh out loud funny and groan inducingly corny. While the special effects were anything but special that added to the charm of the film.

This is one I remember seeing as a kid and being most amused. Horror and comedy together? That was cool. Watched it again the other night and it seemed distinctly lacklustre. Yes, horror and comedy can work together (An American Werewolf In London, for instance), but there are too many faults here and the movie suffers for it. For one thing the dialog this time around conspicuously lacked inspiration. Not only were the jokes a bit lame, but they were stretched too thinly to cover the screenplay. Neither Sid James nor Barbara Windsor appeared in this one, so in come Harry H. Corbett and Fenella Fielding. Fielding made an acceptable saucy comic vamp(ire) but Corbett's occasionally overdone mugging is a distraction. Elsewhere, Charles Hawtree may well have had a four-square liquid lunch before filming his little cameo as a lavatory attendant, while Kenneth Williams pretty much phones it in, set on 'loud, campy delivery' and turned up to 10. The actors do what they can, but their characters aren't as finely drawn as many previous 'Carry On' efforts, and the energetic-but-hollow result looks a bit 'tryhard'. Unfortunate, because the movie had a higher budget and a better 'look' than the 'Carry On' norm, and the central concept was sound. It's not actually all bad, just that it's so undernourished script-wise. Considering the frequency at which entries in this film series were cranked out (this was the twelfth 'Carry On' in eight years) and that '..Screaming!' was the first of two to be produced in 1966, it's probable that the movie marked an incidence of creative fatigue.

If you are looking for a zombie film, this will not satisfy you. Sure, it has zombies, but they are too busy devising double entendres and references to Abbott and Costello bits or other films to be gnawing on flesh.Speaking of flesh, Fenella Fielding was just about the hottest vampire I could imagine for the day.Her brother, played by Kenneth Williams, was a hoot. He played the gayest Dr Frankenstein character I ever saw.I had never seen Jim Dale before, and he was excellent. I only knew Dale as the reader of the Harry Potter books. I spent many hours with him as i listened to all of them many times over. Now, I find that he is an excellent actor to boot.If you like British comedy, and I certainly do, then this is one film you should see. I can't wait to see more of them.