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And Now the Screaming Starts!

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From the liner notes

Set in 1795 England, And Now the Screaming Starts! tells the tale of blissful newlyweds Catherine (Stephanie Beacham) and Charles Fengriffen (Ian Ogilvy) who move into his ancestral family mansion. On their wedding night, Catherine is raped by a malevolent spirit. She is further plagued by a series of haunting visions involving an eyeless woodsman and a murderous disembodied hand.

Can a savage act of depravity and violence committed by one of Charles’ ancestors be to blame? Charles fears that his bride is going insane and calls for Doctor Whittle (Patrick Magee). Unable to help Catherine overcome her visions, Dr. Whittle calls for assistance from a fellow practitioner, Dr. Pope (Peter Cushing), who uses reason and logic to combat what he assumes is a mental disorder. In time, Dr. Pope finds himself fighting a losing battle against the forces of the supernatural carrying out a bloody family curse.

Directed by Roy Ward Baker (Asylum, The Vault of Horror, The Monster Club) and produced by Amicus stalwarts Max J. Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky, And Now the Screaming Starts! has been mastered in High Definition from 35mm vault materials.

Review

On their DVD commentrak, director Roy Ward Baker and star Stephanie Beacham remark on how this film is different from the horrors produced by Hammer Studios, noting a more dignified bearing. True enough, if not for a bit of nudity and blood – and its suggestive plot - And Now the Screaming Starts (which they regret failed to keep the title Bride of Fengriffen) could have been released back in the 1950s. The story bears enough similarity to that of films like Gaslight and The Screaming Skull that one suspects a put-on intended to drive our newlywed heroine around the bend. This impression is so strong that one becomes very resistant to the supernatural element. However, once we get to the rape and mutilation flashback sequence, anything goes. This flashback to Herbert Lom’s deviltry is sordid enough to overpower most of the rest of the movie, though it doesn’t really explain the haunting going on in the “present”. A class act all around, but it would be more fun on a double bill.

-- Brian Thomas