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Subject: Re: What Is The Name Of This Movie?
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 18:27:04 EST
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 >A few years ago I saw a movie on TV that had an unspeakably horrible
 >scene in it. I vowed that next time it was on I would record the
 >scene for future enjoyment. Here are a few fuzzy recollections about 
 >the movie:
 >Horrible Scene: A jogger is mugged while jogging in the park. He
 >    awakes to find himself in a hospital bed. He throws off the
 >    covers and finds one leg has been amputated. A nurse comes in and 
 >    gives him some sedative or something, and the movie switches to 
 >    some subplot scene, I believe.
 >	The scene then switches back to the man in the bed, as he
 >    just awakes from the sedative. He throws off the covers to find
 >    both his legs gone. A nurse gives him another sedative. The movie,
 >    I believe, switches back to another sub-plot scene.
 >	The scene then again switches to the man in the bed, showing
 >    at first just his face, which is wearing an expression of total
 >    shock, disbelief, and crazed horror. As the camera backs away,
 >    showing more and more of the man, it becomes visible that now both
 >    the man's arms are missing as well.
 >
 >Does anyone know the name of the movie?

I do!  I do!  You are talking about SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (which may
be known under the name of the book it was based on THE DISORIENTED MAN
by Peter Saxon).  The film was made by Amicus, I think, and starred
Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, and Peter Cushing.  It is sort of a
takeoff on the Frankenstein theme.  The DM title refers to one of
Price's creations, a man with no memory and incredible strength.  In
one scene I think the police have him handcuffed to the bumper of a
care and he very blithely walks away leaving his hand behind still
handcuffed to the bumper.  A friend of mine was particularly interested
in this film because he liked novels by Peter Saxon who is best known
of a series about a set of supernatural troubleshooters call "The
Guardians."

 >
 >As a side discussion to spawn, can anyone describe a scene in any movie
 >currently playing on the TV late-nite circuit that is more horrifying 
 >than this one?

I haven't really been horrified by a film since I saw PSYCHO at age 9.
But I suppose what horrifies you is very subjective.  Oddly enough
there are scenes in uncut versions of COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE that I think
are more effective.  There is one with a woman who has recently been
bitten by a vampire and who takes a long time to answer the phone (he
says trying to avoid a spoiler) that I thought was quite effective.
But I was young when I saw the film and it might not be as good if I
saw it uncut again.

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper