The living corpses of Dr. Mabuse
| Movie | |
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| German title | The living corpses of Dr. Mabuse |
| Original title | Scream and Scream Again |
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| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Gordon Hessler |
| script | Christopher Wicking |
| production |
Max J. Rosenberg , Milton Subotsky |
| music | David Whitaker |
| camera | John Coquillon |
| cut | Peter Elliot |
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The living corpses of Dr. Mabuse (original title Scream and Scream Again ) is a British horror film from 1970 . The director was Gordon Hessler . The plot is based on the short story The Disorientated Man by Peter Saxon . The character of Doctor Mabuse , invented by Norbert Jacques , does not appear in the original version of the film. In the German dubbed version and in the title, the name was used solely for advertising reasons.
action
A gruesome series of murders puzzles the London police. The so-called "vampire killer" sucks all the blood out of the body of his victims. Undercover policewoman Sylvia leads the police to the killer. After a long chase, the perpetrator, who appears to be endowed with superhuman powers, can be caught. The police handcuff him to a car, but he breaks free by tearing off his own hand. Eventually, after further persecution, he dies in an acid bath on the estate of the mysterious Dr. Mabuse, who works for the British government on behalf of the politician Fremont.
Meanwhile, in an unnamed military dictatorship, the officer Konratz tries to put himself at the head of the dictatorship by murdering his superiors. Konratz secretly meets with Fremont to negotiate the release of some British hostages. In return for the release, the British police are said to keep the deeds of the "vampire killer" secret, but they do not succeed.
After the police files on the "vampire killer" have been closed, the young forensic doctor Dr. Sorel and Policewoman Sylvia are starting his own investigation. He comes across in the house of Dr. Mabuse on an incredible secret. Both the "vampire killer" and Fremont, Konratz and Dr. Mabuse themselves are composites, artificial people made from amputated body parts that have superhuman strength. Now Mabuse wants to implant Sylvia's brain in another compound, but is interrupted by a visit from Konratz. The two fight each other, and Mabuse is able to kill his opponent. During this fight Sorel and Sylvia manage to escape. Finally, at Dr. Mabuse a. Mabuse informs Fremont that they should gather all the other composites together, as the acts of the "vampire killer" have attracted worldwide attention. However, Fremont replies that it is already too late for that and plunges Mabuse into an acid bath.
criticism
“Some scientists want to create a perfect synthetic human from amputated individual parts and thus gain world domination. Confused mixture of science fiction, horror and crime films. "
background
The film features three veterans of horror films from the 1960s and 1970s, Vincent Price , Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing . Price and Lee only meet in the last scene of the film and Cushing can only be seen briefly and never in one scene with either of the other two. The only film in which all three stand together in front of the camera is The House of Long Shadows (1983).
Vincent Price's film role Dr. Mabuse is called in the original English version Dr. Browning . Thus, Prices Dr. Mabuse has nothing to do with the eponymous super criminal invented by the writer Norbert Jacques , who was best known for the films by director Fritz Lang and the film series produced by Artur Brauner from 1960 to 1964 .
The film opened in Great Britain in January 1970, in the USA on February 13, 1970, in Germany on April 23, 1971.
Web links
- The living corpses of Dr. Mabuse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The living corpses of Dr. Mabuse in the All Movie Guide (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The living corpses of Dr. Mabuse. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. The House of Long Shadows in the All Movie Guide