Scream and Scream Again 1970 Konratz

Scream and Scream Again is a 1970 British-American science fiction conspiracy thriller picture starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alfred Marks, Michael Gothard, and Peter Cushing. Information technology is based on the novel The Disorientated Man by 'Peter Saxon', a firm pseudonym used by diverse authors in the 1960s and 1970s.

Strange and terrible things are afoot and the police are helpless to terminate them. First a middle attack victim goes to the hospital and awakens to discover limbs missing, and later, the trunk of a rape victim is found with ii foreign puncture wounds upon her wrist. Meanwhile in eastern Europe, a military officer is murdered past someone with inordinate strength. After another girl is murdered, Supt. Bellaver gets on the case. The trail of clues has many twists and turns and before he is led to the mysterious estate of Dr. Browning, another dies. In that location he discovers that the insane scientist has engineered a master race of emotionless, mindless beings as part of an international conspiracy. At present Bellaver and his cohorts must somehow stop the doctor and his friends from taking over the world.

Tropes in Scream and Scream Again:

• Advertised Extra: Peter Cushing'due south office is footling more than a cameo: appearing in one brief scene and dying at the end of information technology.
• An Arm and a Leg: At the start of the movie, a jogger collapses from a middle assault. When he wakes at the hospital, he discovers his leg has been amputated. Every time the movie cuts back to him, another limb has been amputated.
• Motorcar Erotica: Keith picks up women in nightclubs and then drives to remote commons where they start making out in his sports machine earlier he murders them.
• Bloodlust: Keith is obsessed with blood and completely drains all of his victims: seemingly drinking all of information technology.
• Damsel in Distress: WPC Helen Bradford keeps finding herself in this function. Sent undercover to human action as bait for the Vampire Killer, she is overpowered by Keith and merely saved by the arrival of her back-upward. Subsequently she helps Dr. Sorel break into Dr. Browning's facility, but is overpowered by Dr. Browning while keeping lookout. Dr. Sorel later finds her Strapped to an Operating Tabular array, about to be used as an unwilling donor for one of Browning's transplant experiments. In her defence, none of the men in the movie have any success going 1 on ane against Browning's enhanced humans (of which Keith is one) either.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Major Heinrich Benedek is a senior official in a totalitarian regime who acknowledges that torture is necessary in maintaining the authorities's authorisation, but even he is horrified by the excesses of Torture Technician Konratz.
• Every Machine Is a Pinto: Ludwig's car catches burn immediately upon beingness shot past the border guards; even earlier it collides with anything.
• Evilutionary Biologist: Dr. Browning is looking to create the race of perfect beings past removing limbs and organs from the undeserving and giving them to the worthy.
• Fair Cop: WPC Helen Bradford who is selected to go undercover in the nightclub to act as allurement for the Vampire Killer.
• Fingore: Konratz uses a pair of bone shears to cut the finger off a young woman he is interrogating.
• Genre Mashup: Horror Film meets Conspiracy Thriller.
• Groin Assail: Despite beingness held by two other policemen, Keith manages to kick Griffin in the groin while Griffin is attempting to punch him in the face: difficult enough to put Griffin in hospital.
• Hollywood Acid: Dr. Browning keeps a vat of extraordinarily powerful acid in a barn on his holding that he uses to dispose of samples from his experiments. Keith commits suicide by jumping into it. Afterward, Dr. Browning kills Konratz by pushing him into it. Fremont so kills Browning the same way.
• Human Resources: Evilutionary Biologist and Mad Doctor Dr. Browning is bringing unwilling patients to his individual hospital where he harvests limbs, organs and miscellaneous body parts to utilise in his transplant operations to create a physically superior master race of humans.
• Just Between You and Me: When Dr. Browning catches Dr. Sorel snooping around the facility, he immediately offers to explain everything to him; admitting that he cannot resist the opportunity to explicate his scheme to someone who will actually understand. He and then adds that afterwards that Dr. Sorel's life will take to have a very different turn.
• Life-or-Limb Decision: Keith is handcuffed to the bumper of a police force car and escapes by tearing his hand off at the wrist.
• Mad Doctor: Dr. Browning is using transplant surgery to create a race of perfect humans.
• Never Trust a Title: Scream and Scream Again has no begetting on the film at all (and makes it sound like a Slasher Movie rather than the science fiction conspiracy thriller it really is).
• Ruritania: Parts of the film are gear up in an unnamed eastern European country that greatly resembles East Germany.
• The Snack Is More Interesting: Konratz is torturing a young adult female captured attempting to escape the land, but is giving the drumstick he is eating more than attention. He pauses eating long enough to cutting through the bone with a pair of shears before using them on her finger.
• Strapped to an Operating Tabular array: Helen is strapped to an operating table when Dr. Browning is about to apply her an unwilling donor for his side by side transplant performance.
• Technicolor Science: The Hollywood Acid in Dr. Browning's facility is a sickly yellow color.
• Torture Technician: Konratz has the reputation of being able to extract information from anyone. The extent of his activities horrify fifty-fifty his superiors.
• Villainous Rescue: Konratz breaking into the clinic to kill Dr. Browning and his staff gives Dr. Sorel the opportunity the release Helen and allows the ii of them to escape.
• Y'all Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Keith'south crimes attract the attending of the government, Konratz decides to close down Dr. Browning's research by killing Dr. Browning and all of his staff.

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