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‘The dead hand that crawls, kills and lives!!!’ –And Now the Screaming Starts! is a 1973 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker from a screenplay by Roger Marshall (Shadows ‘The Future Ghost’; What Became of Jack and Jill?; Theatre of Death), based on the novel Fengriffen by David Case. Promoted as And Now the Screaming Starts The Amicus production stars Peter Cushing, Herbert…

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Stephanie Beacham as Catherine Fengriffen in And Now The Screaming Starts! (1973)

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I'd never call "And now the Screaming Starts" a good movie, but it is an unflinching commentary on the way that patriarchal obsession with bloodline and purity perpetuates violence against women.

Charles Fengriffen knows that as a result of his ancestor assaulting a woman, there is a curse that if he marries a virgin bride, she'll be assaulted herself. He gets married anyway and says nothing to Catherine, his wife.

Catherine is assaulted on her wedding night. Nobody will tell her anything to explain the fact that she is being haunted by the thing which assaulted her. She asks around. The closest she gets is a man who says he'll tell her, but only after receiving permission from her husband.

She finds out she's pregnant. Her husband is certain it's a boy so that he will have an heir. Her husband is also certain that the baby is his, even though his wife knows that this child is the product of assault.

His wife is injured. He asks after the health of her fetus before he asks after her own health.

Catherine says she doesn't want the baby. Nobody seems to care about this.

The doctor, who knows about the curse, asks if Charles will take his wife away from the estate to have the baby. He says of course not, his heir will be born on the ancestral lands.

Most telling of all - part of the curse is that anyone who tries to prevent it from harming its victim will be killed, so most people who try to talk about the curse end up dead, because they talk about the curse in the context of trying to help Catherine. But Charles can talk about the curse without putting himself at risk because he never tried to prevent Catherine from being harmed.

All he had to do was not marry a virgin, or not marry at all, or not insist on bringing his wife to his ancestral home. But he wanted a virgin bride, he wanted a son born on his ancestral land.

At the end of the movie he exhumes one of his ancestors and brutalises the skeleton. He might as well be punching a mirror.

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AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS! (1973)

The year is 1795, and Charles Fengriffen and Catherine are a young couple.  They are about to be married.  Catherine arrives at Charles’ huge house and is seemingly mesmerized by a portrait of his grandfather, Henry.  She stares at it, and then a bloody hand bursts through the frame at her!  She screams.  On their wedding night, Charles takes Catherine to the bedroom, and a bloody hand is following them!  On the floor!  Catherine is waiting for Charles in the bedroom.  A window opens by itself, and then the door locks by itself.  Catherine is suddenly held down by a disembodied hand and a bloody stump!  She begins to scream, and Henry has to break down the door with an axe to reach the traumatized woman.

Over the following days, Catherine is haunted.  She is kissing Henry, and outside the window she sees the image of a man with no eyes!  Just bloody eyeholes!  She stares at the portrait of old Henry, and the same man seems to step out toward her, dripping blood on the floor.  Catherine is freaked out, and she runs all the way outside to a little cemetery.  She sees (apparently) the same man, staring at her, because he has both eyes.  Also, he has a red birth mark on his face.  She freaks out, again, and runs back home.  She eventually calms down and finds out that the guy is the woodsman, Silas, who has an ancestral right to live there, granted by Charles’ grandfather, Henry, to Silas’ grandfather, also named Silas.

People begin to die:

Catherine asks the family lawyer why Henry gave Silas the land.  The man says he will go talk to Henry that night, but on the way he is killed!

The family doctor tells Catherine that she is pregnant, but she is not pleased.  A maid urges her to eat, but Catherine says that she doesn’t want the baby.  “Why?” the maid asks.  “You know why.” Catherine says.  Catherine starts to cry, and the maid grabs a big book from the library to show Catherine.  However, as the maid heading back up the stairs, pictures and chandelier start to rattle.  A spectral hand chokes her, and she tumbles down the stairs to her death!  Catherine later looks at the book and sees that one of Henry’s children, his first child, has been scratched out.

Turns out, Catherine’s aunt is also living at the house.  The woman decides to take Catherine back to London and tells her pack up.  Aunt then goes to look at old Henry’s portrait, and the disembodied hand attacks her!  She makes her way back to Catherine’s room before falling over dead.

Charles goes to Silas and tries to buy him out, to convince him to leave the manor, but Silas refuses!  Charles is later walking about his house at night.  It is snowing outside.  He reads an ominous passage in a book.  Meanwhile, Catherine takes a knife and slashes the portrait of Henry! 

Catherine goes for a walk, and one of the family dogs attacks her and chews on her arm a bit.  Silas saves her!  The doctor gives her a “tonic.”  Catherine tries to throw it into the river, but the wet bottle reappears on her nightstand.  Her anguished look turns into crazed laughter.  The family doctor suggests that they call in a specialist, Dr. Pope, and he is Peter Cushing.  He observes various things and finally talks to Catherine.  She tells him about the initial ghostly assault, which she interprets as a dream.  He later catches her reading the “Malleus Maleficarum,” in particular about “sexual relations with demons[!]”  Pope finally goes to the family doctor and insists that the man tell him about any local legends about the Fengriffen family.  The doctor initially refuses, but he finally starts, “There is a woodsman on the Fengriffin estate…” but then he dies! 

Pope visits Silas.  Silas tells Pope that if the baby dies, “I’ll kill you.”  Pope goes to Charles, who finally tells him the family secret.  We jump back in time to see his grandfather, Henry, debauching things up with various rough-looking people in the house.  For “fun,” they all decide to visit Silas, the woodsman, who has just married that day.  The crowd rides out to the house and busts in.  Henry indicates his desire to have sex with Silas’ new wife, Sarah.  Silas tries to resist, but Henry has men hold him in place as he sexually assaults the woman.  Afterwards, the couple attack Henry.  Henry has his men drag Silas outside, and he cuts off his hand with an axe.  Silas doesn’t make a noise.  He curses Henry, “What you did this day will be avenged.  I swear a solemn vow.  The next virgin bride to come to the house of Fengriffin will be violated, as was my Sarah, but then shall come the true vengeance on the house of Fengriffin.  And death shall befall anyone who tries to prevent it!”  We jump back to the present and see that Catherine has stood behind the door, listening.  She takes a knife and tries to stab her womb, but the disembodied hand blocks the blade!

Catherine finally has the baby.  She is unconscious afterwards, and Charles looks at the baby, a boy.  We, the audience, can’t see it yet, but Charles is clearly unhappy and grabs his pistols and leaves.  He goes to Silas’ house.  Silas mocks him.  Charles pulls out both pistols and shoots him!  Pope chases after Charles and reaches Silas’ house, where the discovers that the man has been shot, in both eyes!  It is raining, and Pope finds Charles in the cemetery.  Charles is hacking at Henry’s grave with an axe.  Pope tries to stop him, but Charles is crazed, so he gives up.  Charles busts open the coffin, drags out Henry’s skeletal remains, and bashes them apart.

Pope goes back to Catherine.  He gives her the baby boy, who has a red birthmark on his face, like Silas, and a stump for a hand!  Pope begins to pull the baby away, but he puts him back on Catherine’s lap.  She takes the child and stares into the distance.  We then pan around a bit and land on a Bible, which shows a verse about god delivering vengeance on multiple generations.

This was ok, typical gothic horror.  The “monster/ghost impregnates a woman” trope has a long history (see “Village of the Damned” (1960) and “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968)).  This movie focuses mostly on the horror inflicted by Henry on the poor Silas and his wife and then the deaths of those trying to help Catherine, which is fine, but we’re then left with little breathing space for Catherine, our present victim.  We have a few glimpses of her interior life, of paranoia and horror.  She literally starts the movie by narrating, “I was going to the house in which I would find my days filled with fear, and my nights filled with horror,” but that’s really about as deep as it gets.  The acting is adequate.  Catherine (Stephanie Beacham) mostly gasps in horror, holding a crazed expression for long seconds at a time as the camera zooms in on her face.  As mentioned above, at one point she mixes it up with maniacal laughter, but, even then, ends the movie with another crazed expression.  Peter Cushing, on the other hand, is a soothing, calming presence.  He actually doesn’t have much to do, mostly serving as a surrogate for the audience as we follow along with the finale of the movie.  Fortunately, the plot is relatively tight and focused, with several strong images and little padding.  It’s a nice diversion.

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Os Gritos Que Aterrorizam

Os Gritos Que Aterrorizam (And Now The Screaming Starts) SINOPSE: Antiga maldição ameaça a mansão dos Fengriffen, onde vão morar Catherine, recém-casada, e Sir Charles. Fantasmas, mão decepada que parece ter vida, mortes misteriosas, caveira com olhos de sangue. Catherine fica grávida e esta pode ser a vingança final. Informações técnicas: DIREÇÃO: Roy Ward Baker ROTEIRO: David Case, Roger…

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Fengriffen: A Chilling Tale (1971) by David Case // And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973) dir. Roy Ward Baker

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No final do século XVIII, dois recém-casados ​​se mudam para a mansão imponente do marido Charles Fengriffen. A noiva, Catherine, cai vítima de uma maldição colocada por um servo injustiçado na família Fengriffen e todos os seus descendentes.

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And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973) – Episode 123 – Decades of Horror 1970s

"The hand crawls... the hand threatens... the hand LIVES!!” The next thing you’ll tell us is the hand has blood on its hands. Wait. Does that sound right? Join your faithful Grue Crew - Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr - as they wander through the crawling-hand world of And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973).

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 123 – And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)

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England, 1795: the young Catherine has just married Charles Fengriffen and moves into his castle. She becomes the victim of an old curse that lays on the family. On her wedding night, she is raped by a ghost and gets pregnant.

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  Director: Roy Ward Baker

Writers: Roger Marshall (based on Ferngriffen, the 1970 novella by David Case)

Selected Cast:

Peter Cushing as Dr. Pope

Herbert Lom as Sir Henry Fengriffin

Patrick Magee as Dr. Whittle

Stephanie Beacham as Catherine Fengriffin

Ian Ogilvy as Charles Fengriffin

Geoffrey Whitehead as Woodsman / Silas

Guy Rolfe as Lawyer Maitland

Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs Luke

Gillian Lind as Aunt Edith

Janet Key as Bridget

Sally Harrison as Sarah

Despite the immortal cricket living in Jeff’s basement, chirping along throughout the episode, the 1970s Grue-Crew have fun with the Amicus Production of And Now the Screaming Starts! Bill loves the cast, especially Ian Ogilvy and Stephanie Beacham, and bemoans the late entry of Peter Cushing and the even later entry of Herbert Lom. Despite the disembodied crawling hand showing up in the first ten minutes, Chad made it all the way through the film and like Bill, thinks it’s an “okay” film. Jeff kind of likes this film; despite its inconsistencies, he does get some frights. Of course, Doc always appreciates a Peter Cushing film and swears he forgot it was a “hand” film.

Your Decades of Horror 1970s Grue-Crew thinks this is worth the watch for the cast if for nothing else. At this writing, And Now the Screaming Starts! Is available to stream on Amazon and on Blu-ray disc from Severin. (Jeff is ordering the Blu-ray.)

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode in their very flexible schedule will be the infamous Equinox (1970). 

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Ahora empiezan los gritos

Año 1796 (siglo XVIII), Inglaterra. Una pareja de recién casados llega a la casa de los ancestros del marido Charles Fengriffen (Ian Ogilvy) en su noche de bodas. Por desgracia, la novia, Catherine Fengriffen (Stephanie Beacham), no es consciente de la maldición que sufre la mansión por los terribles acontecimientos que en ella ocurrieron en tiempos pasados. En 1746, Silas (Geoffrey Whitehead), un muchacho que trabaja en los establos, intenta evitar la violación de su joven esposa a manos del noble Fengriffen. Durante el enfrentamiento entre el noble y el lacayo, Silas pierde una mano. Tras su muerte, el espíritu vengativo de Silas regresa al castillo para saciar su sed de venganza con los sucesores del tirano Fengriffen. La mano de Silas regresa para atormentar a la joven pareja, que lucha por superar el horror y dejar atrás el legado de terror y muerte de la familia Fengriffen.. Debido a las inesperadas y reiteradas muertes ligadas a un oscuro secreto, el prestigioso Dr. Pope (Peter Cushing) debe descifrar qué son estas temibles apariciones que irrumpen en la felicidad de la pareja.

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Fengriffen (1973)

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Stephanie Beacham as Catherine Fengriffen in And Now The Screaming Starts! (1973)

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And Now the Screaming Starts  1973  Stars Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Ian Ogilvy and Stephanie Beacham

England, 1795: the young Catherine has just married Charles Fengriffen and moves into his castle. She becomes the victim of an old curse that lays on the family. On her wedding night she is raped by a ghost and gets pregnant.            

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And Now the Screaming Starts! - UK, 1973

And Now the Screaming Starts! – UK, 1973

‘The dead hand that crawls, kills and lives!!!’

–And Now the Screaming Starts! – aka And Now the Screaming Starts – is a 1973 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker from a screenplay by Roger Marshall (Shadows ‘The Future Ghost’; What Became of Jack and Jill?; Theatre of Death), based on the novel Fengriffen by David Case. It stars Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Stephanie…