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10 out of 11 people found the following comment useful :-
My brief review of the film, 1 December 2005
Author: sol- from Perth, Australia

One of the better films of the Carry On series, the film spoofs the typical horror films of the 1960s quite well, and there is a great feel of the Gothic to it, thanks to apt costumes and sets. It is still overly silly as is usual for an entry in the series, and there are silly sound effects and some lame jokes that bring it down. However, there are quite a few good gags to make up for those that do not work, and the team receives great assistance from Fenella Fielding this time, who is perfectly cast as a vampire like seductress. The film also has some good makeup work, and the title song, sung by Jim Dale, fits in well.

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Watch on a stormy night, 9 May 2007
10/10
Author: Edgewalker from Tuxford, England

To simply call Screaming the best Carry On film is to sell the picture short, to call it one of the best British films ever is considerably more accurate. Every performance - from Michael Ward to Harry H Corbett - is faultless, fresh and full of vigour. It's a film that demands rather than rewards repeat viewings, you won't notice anything that you didn't before, but you will laugh as much on the hundredth time as on the first. Any film that doesn't miss the presence of Sid James has to be something too special for words. Watch it in a darkened room on a stormy night and wonder at the brilliance of it all. Everyone else says Khyber or Cleo, but they are wrong.

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"Foul Feet Smell Something Horrible", 3 January 2005
7/10
Author: Gary170459 from Derby, UK

This one was my favourite Carry On when a kid, it's one of a few I can force myself to watch nowadays. I think I could stick with Khyber and Cleo but the rest forget it. Throughout the series from '58 to '70 there were some good moments, some ace smart-ass one-liners but a lot of swamp to crawl through, the humour eventually ending up in the gutter from '70 on. I left them all to it there and then.

Harry Corbett and Kenneth Williams have some great lines, in this version of Frankenstein - stealing women to "vitrify" into shop dummies. Williams: "I wish I was dead"; Fielding: "Don't you remember, you are"; Williams: "Oh yes. What a life!" And on and on, knockabout Music Hall and Variety stuff, some original but plenty borrowed from all sources from Abbott and Costello, the Addams Family, Will Hay etc. But in COS it generally works: therefore I admit I must still like it. I wish that Sid James had been in it as well, but I'm glad Barbara Windsor wasn't.

Maybe it's my rose-tinted spectacles kicking in with this one, but why on Earth do the Carry On films generally seem more popular now in the Noughties UK than 30 years ago?

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Entertaining Without Being A Classic Comedy Horror, 3 January 2005
6/10
Author: Theo Robertson from Isle Of Bute , Scotland

I had often thought this was the best movie in the CARRY ON series , an opinion brought about by the fact that there's a couple of DOCTOR WHO references and that it combines the genres of comedy and horror . After seeing it recently I would say that both CARRY ON CLEO and CARRY ON UP THE KYHBER are better movies But CARRY ON SCREAMING still remains one of the better films in the series even if ( Or because )it's off centre with its peers : the main character is played by an actor who's not a regular member of the cast , there's references to other popular TV shows of the time like Z-CARS and STEPTOE AND SON , and there's little of the cringe making innuendo seen in the later movies .

There are some flaws that may rile fans of the post modernist SCREAM movies like no one noticing monsters stalking the woods or a lack of internal continuity where monsters being able to knock down doors then not being able to when the script requires it but CARRY ON SCREAMING remains a fairly entertaining movie almost 40 years after it was made

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One of the better Carry Ons, 23 September 2004
9/10
Author: (solar-penguin) from London, England

The Carry On films were at their best in the early days when they offered more than just saucy double entendres. Don't get me wrong, there *are* plenty of great double entendres here, but they're set against the backdrop of a horror spoof. The unusual setting gives it a freshness that the other Carry Ons lack.

A changed cast helps too. Harry Corbett shines in the sort of role which normally goes to Sid James. He makes the part his own, only failing in the scenes where he argues with his wife. There's just no chemistry between him and Joan Sims to show why these people were once in love with each other.

But there's chemistry between Corbett and Fenella Fielding, the other guest star. She makes a wonderful evil seductress. Of the regulars, Williams is best. His usual eccentric, camp performance takes on an edge of madness that grows as the film progresses.

Recommended.

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"Lets have a sift, I'm all for a good sift." Wonderful comedy horror spoof from the Carry On boys., 5 November 2005
8/10
Author: Paul Andrews (poolandrews@hotmail.com) from UK

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Carry On Screaming! starts in Oakham Woods as a young couple Albert Potter (Jim Dale) & Doris Mann (Angela Douglas) are out on a date. Albert disappears to investigate a strange noise & upon his return he finds Doris missing. Scotland Yard's finest Detective Sergeant Sidney Bung (Harry H. Corbett) & his trusty sidekick Detective Constable Slobotham (Peter Butterworth) are on the case & make the connection between this case the disappearance of several other young women in the same area within the past year. They search the woods but find nothing except a finger, they stumble across a large house belonging to Doctor Orlando Watt (Kenneth Williams) & his sister Valeria (Fenella Fielding) who are secretly using a hairy monster named Oddbod (Tom Clegg) to kidnap women which they then turn into shop dummies which they then sell to local stores, they are questioned but Bung finds nothing suspicious. Can Bung piece the clues together, figure out the truth & put a stop to the Watt's sinister plan? It's well worth a watch to find out...

This British production was directed by Gerald Thomas & was the twelfth Carry On in a series that has produced over thirty films & Carry On Screaming! is surely one of (if not the) the best. The script by Carry On regular Talbot Rothwell has all the sexual innuendo, smutty gags, crude humour & puns that make these Carry On's so much fun to watch & thankfully it doesn't take itself too seriously. I have to admit that I find Carry On Screaming! hilarious even as a die-hard horror fan or perhaps even because I am. It parodies & makes fun of all the Hammer horror film so popular at the time this was made with great affection & it is never disrespectful towards it's inspiration. Director Thomas tires to take the mickey out of everything, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, mad scientists, a sexy vampire, old dark creepy mansions, a mummy, bringing the dead back to life, the sinister butler & plots involving the kidnapping of sexy young English maidens & adds plenty of humour to the proceedings so it never becomes too scary or frightening. It moves along like a rocket, it never becomes boring & is consistently funny, I love the interchanges between Bung & his dim-witted partner Slobotham, the hilarious rows Bung & his wife Emily (Joan Sims) have night after night as he comes out with sarcastic quips to her constant moaning, the silly dialogue & situations that crop up & I just think the entire film works extremely well at what it sets out to do. Another area where Carry On Screaming! succeeds so well is that it looks & feels like a horror film with wonderfully atmospheric period sets especially Dr. Watt's mansion & basement laboratory. The costumes are great with Bung wearing a Sherlock Holmes type cape & smoking from a pipe & how did Fielding get into that dress? The cinematography by veteran Alan Hume is great with a rich bright almost garish colour scheme, fantastic stuff. The over-the-top acting as everyone camps it up big time is worth watching the film for in itself, Corbett was a last minute replacement for Sid James when he couldn't take part due to illness & does a great job while Feilding makes for an incredibly sexy & hot looking villain, the other Carry On regulars like Williams who hams it up with the best of them, Sims, Dale, Butterworth, Charles Hawtrey as Dan Dann the gardening man, Bernard Bresslaw as Sockett the butler & future Dr. Who Jon Pertwee also turns up. I think Carry On Screaming! is a fantastic film from the catchy & funny opening theme song right down to the happy almost feel good ending, wholeheartedly recommended & an absolute must for Carry On & comedy fans.

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A Tribute., 10 November 2005
9/10
Author: Cinema_Fan from An English Shire.

This is one of the funniest parodies of the horror genre I have ever seen, there is more than one horror genre parodied here, such as Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and the Werewolf for example, totally hilarious. This is the better produced, for me, of the Carry On family and written by Mr Talbot Rothwell, and released in 1966.

Mr Rothwell was born in 1916 and passed away in 1981; he started writing professionally around 1949, and before Carry On Screaming! He had put pen to paper for five Carry On's before this, such as..Cabby,..Jack,..Spying,..Cleo and Carry On Cowboy, amongst other works. It is the one-liners and clean but witty and imaginative innuendo's that really make this particular movie, like all the other Carry On's, but I feel that this is them at their zenith, ironically this film is without Sid James, the recognisable Face of the Carry On Establishment; British postcard humour at it's best.

Harry H. Corbett plays the lead role excellently as the bumbling police officer, with his even more so incompetent sidekick, the always-funny Peter Butterworth. The Mad Scientist here is, camp as always and utterly professional, Kenneth Williams, along with Jim Dale, Charles Hawerty, my personal favourite and Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw plus Jon "Doctor Who" Pertwee amongst others. With an array of British comedic writing and acting talent, that has been hard to surpass, but on a parallel with Python, Milligan and The Goons. This is classic British seaside humour that does not feed on the lowest common denominator of crude and vile sexism or racist language.

Directed by Gerald Thomas, who could be called Mister Carry On because he directed no more than twenty nine Carry On's, he was there at the very beginning with Carry On Sergeant in 1958 and the final, to date, the 1992 Carry On Columbus. Mr. Thomas passed away on the 9th of November 1993, aged 73.

Messer's Rothwell and Thomas are now a breed gone for ever, for, unfortunately, the time's have changed, compared to today's humour, that knows or only wants smut and gutter. If you really want to do them as well as yourself proud, then take up a Carry On movie. You never know, you could end up Carrying on Laughing.

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Zombies that make you laugh, 29 April 2007
7/10
Author: lastliberal from Florida

If you are looking for a zombie film, this will not satisfy you. Sure, it has zombies, but they are too busy devising double entendres and references to Abbott and Costello bits or other films to be gnawing on flesh.

Speaking of flesh, Fenella Fielding was just about the hottest vampire I could imagine for the day.

Her brother, played by Kenneth Williams, was a hoot. He played the gayest Dr Frankenstein character I ever saw.

I had never seen Jim Dale before, and he was excellent. I only knew Dale as the reader of the Harry Potter books. I spent many hours with him as i listened to all of them many times over. Now, I find that he is an excellent actor to boot.

If you like British comedy, and I certainly do, then this is one film you should see. I can't wait to see more of them.

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Fantastic, 19 November 2006
Author: m_pratt from United Kingdom

This Film is one of the films which has got everything. There is no Sid in this one but Harry H Corbert steps into his shoes with the same name Sidney Bung. The film is great as is Fenella Fielding as Veleria. Kenneth Williams is superb as Dr Watt in one of his best ever carry on roles. Charles and Joan are wasted. Jim Dale and Angela Douglas are very good. Butterworth is excellent as Slobotham. Jon Pertwee makes a carry on appearance as Doctor Fettle. The film remains one of my favourites. Bernard Bresslaw is good but not brilliant as in Cowboy. The locations are top notch, the house of Dr Watt is still there as a private language school. Odd Bodd is very funny when Valeria sees the reconstructed Odd Bodd and thinks that is the real one. "Put some cloths on you filthy beast" classic!!.

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Totally Mad, 11 August 2002
Author: Big Movie Fan from England

I have to admit that this is the best Carry on Film of the series. It had me laughing throughout.

There were great performances throughout and I particularly liked the late Harry H. Corbett's role as Detective Sergeant Bung in it.

The plot was mad. The late Kenneth Williams played Dr. Watt who was the fiendish brains behind an evil plot. He had a huge Frankenstein-like henchman called Oddbod who would kidnap women for him. He would then turn the women into dummies and sell them to a local shop. Crazy eh?

I won't spoil any of the scenes for you but they are all funny and there's some great dialogue throughout. As for the ending, it had me in stitches.

I really believe this is the best Carry on Film in the series so I recommend checking it out.

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