Very well executed

I'll tell you why so serious

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

After a series of graphic murders, a London police sergeant investigating the crimes find them to be committed by assembled beings created by a mad doctor forging them for a Communist country's eventual takeover and tries to stop them from continuing.Aside from being a collection of horror legends in one movie, this is actually one of their lesser roles. One of the main points here is that the film is mostly known for having three great horror stars of the time in it's cast, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Vincent Price. It's the latter that holds the most screen time, and his role as a doctor that actually wants to do good with his creations instead of evil was creative and put a new spin on an idea that most were expecting where Price is the villainous creator of what goes around killing people. It's still a nominal bad-guy role, but it's a bit closer to the side of good than evil. It does have some other fun scenes here setting up the mod-flavored London scene of the late 60s which sets up the fine, brutal attacks here in that time-frame quite well as those are quite brutal and somewhat nicely rely on that era's account of brutality. The movie doesn't have much else going for it until the middle third where it contains a nice car chase that is full of some new ideas of the cars zooming through traffic on the road that make it a far more remarkable than most car chases of the time and is all the more fun with the follow-up series of encounters along the buildings nearby that show his exceptional skills and provide the first clues to his true nature. It's only other important point here comes from the investigation into their abilities and some results have been found that sets up a rather nice mystery which does hold up quite nicely and stays intriguing enough throughout here. These are the film's positives which are mostly undone by several flaws. The biggest issue against this is that the film is very confusing it hardly gets any clearer until late with a large portion of the film spent with the only thing we know is a series of gruesome killings and the police don't know anything about how to stop the killer or the motives behind them. It's very aggravating when something happens and nothing is answered. Even still, nothing is confusing than the subplots that really go nowhere. There was a strange organization with a swastika- ish logo featured in the beginning, the random scenes with Lee just randomly thrown into the beginning and the utter confusion over what the society actually is which really makes no sense and is never explained what their target is supposed to be which makes these so confusing overall. Likewise, with all the scenes set in the swinging-mod London there's not a whole lot here that actually becomes a horror film until the mid-way which leaves this one somewhat boring in the first half with the lame pacing and confusion over everything. As well, just because Price is the first name listed in the credits doesn't mean he has a lot of screen time. In fact, all of the top three are all in there for about a combined ten minutes, Cushing for the least amount of time so seeing it for them might be problematic. Otherwise there's not much else to this one.Today's Rating/PG-13: Violence and Brief Nudity.

This movie is closely based on Peter Saxon's science fiction novel "The Disoriented Man". Worth watching if you love sci-fi, mystery, thriller, crime and horror all rolled into one film.***************Spoiler******************* I have NEVER read the book but, from what I have read about the film vs the book, the only thing really missing from the film is the fact these mysterious people are aliens and not just some creation of human science - otherwise the film very closely follows the book. *****************************************This is another film that I have not seen since roughly the mid-80's and recently watched the film again... I have to say it's better than my memory allowed me to remember.There are several things going on in this movie at once - so it's one of those films you will not want miss anything which is easy because it will draw you in quickly just because it's so odd.Oh and by the way, this film is NOT overly gory - the worst parts happen off screen but there is some blood. 8/10

I always loved Peter Cushing chasing Christopher lee as Dracula or better yet when Lee,Cushing and Price get together and scare us ,but not this one,all three are not together and have part time duty thru out the movie until Price took over at the end.it a roller-coaster of a film.what we see is James Bond chasing Frankenstein,chasing some Nazi crazies,some kind of mad doctor,don't forget the vampire.I would scream and scream again if they cut my legs off too.This is no Lee,Cushing,Price type of horror film..Cushing only last for 5 minutes and still get top billing.it go from action to finally see a horror ending with Vincent Price showing us once again in what he 's good at .but i wouldn't scream again for this so so movie.Lee stay as Dracula.Cushing stay as Helsing and Vincent stay as alway..the mad doctor.better yet ,see Madhouse instead

My video copy isn't the original cinema version, unfortunately, but as Scream and Scream Again's not available on DVD in the UK yet, it'll have to do. The music sound track is not the original one - rights issues with Amen Corner's performances sometimes result in the lead singer giving it his all only for nothing to heard on the sound track! Well, enough of my dodgy videos!This is a bizarre and at the same time entertaining horror flick, with almost totally unrelated story threads being forced together at the climax to make some kind of sense. The main section concerns the hunt for "The Vampire Killer", although why Michael Gothard's character needs blood is never made clear. This is by far the best part of the movie though, and includes a long chase sequence between Gothard and the boys in blue when they finally catch on to him (in what must be the stupidest honey-trap in cinema history). One horror book I own describes Gothard's character as a sort of "bionic Mick Jagger." which is so accurate a term I couldn't improve on it.And we also have Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee turning up at various points. Those cinemas goers of the time who went expecting a triple-teaming of three great horror stars were probably sorely disappointed. Cushing has one scene - not with the other masters of menace - and Price and Lee have only a couple more, sharing a brief bit at the end of the film. A great shame.The real star of the film is Alfred Marks as the dead-pan police inspector, dropping laconic quips by the minute, he gives full value for his screen time.We also have a Nazi-type dictatorship sub-plot, and a collapsed jogger who keeps waking up minus another limb. MI6 getting involved. And a downed spy-plane plot. This lot really shouldn't work at all, but somehow it does, holding both narrative interest and the odd surprise. It's all good fun. All it needed was Steve Austin and a few slow-mo fights to really make an evening of it!