And Now the Screaming Starts!
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60% Rotten Tomatoes Duration Language English | 5.9/10 IMDb 4.2/5 Genre Horror Country British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date April 27, 1973 Cast (Catherine Fengriffen), (Dr. Pope), (Dr. Whittle), (Henry Fengriffen), (Charles Fengriffen), (Silas / Woodsman) Similar movies The Beast with Five Fingers , Batman Returns , Turkey Shoot , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning , Hellboy , Clue Tagline A Technicolor film set in a ghostly gothic manor house, England 1785. |
And Now the Screaming Starts! is a 1973 British gothic horror film. It is one of the few feature-length horror stories by Amicus, a company best known for anthology or "portmanteau" films.
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The screenplay, written by Roger Marshall, is based on the novel Fengriffen by David Case. It stars Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Stephanie Beacham and Ian Ogilvy, and was directed by Roy Ward Baker. The large gothic house used in the film is Oakley Court, near Bray village, which is now a four star hotel.

Plot

In 1795, newlyweds Catherine (Beacham) and Charles Fengriffen (Ogilvy) move into Charles' stately mansion. Catherine falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and its descendants.
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Reception

The film received a lukewarm reception in Britain and America on its release. In the UK, And Now the Screaming Starts! went out on a double bill with the American horror film, Dr Death, Seeker of Souls. Jonathan Rosenbaum of Monthly Film Bulletin praised Denys Coop's camerawork and the acting performances, yet felt the film never quite realised its potential. A. H. Weiler reviewing the work in The New York Times commended Cushing's contribution, deeming it superior to the rest of the cast's, although considered its plot contrived. Mark Burger, reviewing a home video release for the Winston-Salem Journal in 2002, similarly noted the strong cast though found the muddled screenplay led to a merely "watchable" film.




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