Scream and Scream Again is yet another movie that roped in Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. This time, it starts on almost three separate tracks. A long-distance runner collapses in the beginning and wakes up in a hospital with his leg amputated. Meanwhile, in a weird Nazi-style country, a big dude meets with his superior and kills him after revealing he knows too many secrets he shouldn't know. Meanwhile meanwhile, a killer is loose in England, draining ladies of their blood and raping them (maybe not in that order). Eventually, these plot threads kind of come together (although I still don't know what the Nazi thing is about). Price plays a scientist whose employee is the first victim of the "vampire killer." Cushing is a fascist military leader who is tired of his underling's use of torture. Lee plays a British government official who is kind of dealing with the Nazi-ish country. There is a super long car chase, vats of acid and live music by a group called The Amen Corner.
This was a weird little movie that doesn't quite come together the way it wants to. It keeps doling out little bits of information about how the plots are connected but then stops cold for a 20 minute chase scene. Cushing is wasted in his cameo but Price and Lee do a fine job in theirs. The ending doesn't entirely make sense to me but your mileage may vary. This could very well be a work of genius I just didn't "get."
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