On day twenty-three, I decided to tackle a Vincent Price boxset that I had lying around, and what better movie to start with than Scream And Scream Again (1970) which stars not only Price, but Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing as well. Scream And Scream again starts off rather disjointedly, altering between several different seemingly unrelated plot threads. The first being about a man who collapses while jogging and awakens in a hospital to find that his leg has been amputated, the second involving some sort of Eastern-European espionage, and third concerning a police manhunt for a killer that picks up young women at clubs and drains them of their blood. Eventually, all of these seemingly unrelated plots come together and the payoff is quite interesting. Although Christopher Lee is barely in the film and Peter Cushing is in it even less, Vincent Price gets a meaty role as a mad doctor. Scream And Scream Again builds slowly, but ultimately forms a memorable film that may be a bit closer to science-fiction than horror. 8 out of 12 beers.
Because it was lumped together on the same disc, I then watched a film that I had seen parts of before, but never actually saw the whole way through. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) is a beautifully shot film in which Dr. Anton Phibes (played by Vincent Price) takes revenge on the doctors that he blames for his wife's death according to the ten plagues of Egypt. The setup for the kills are great and the film maintains a surreal, dreamy atmosphere throughout. If you've ever enjoyed Vincent Price in anything, this is a movie you absolutely have to check out. 10 out of 12 beers.
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