Die Screaming Marianne
by Pete Walker
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Actor: Barry Evans, Christopher Sandford, Judy Huxtable, Leo Genn, Susan GeorgeDirector: Pete Walker
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-02-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Die Screaming Marianne
Movie Review: Please Die Marianne And Spare Me From Watching This Boring Movie
Summary: 2 Stars
I enjoyed watching Pete Walker's "Schizo" starring real life bad girl Lynne Frederick. Because of Walker's reputation of being a great British horror director, I decided to watch "Die Screaming Marianne," which he produced and directed in 1970. Big mistake. I have to be honest or no one will ever believe any of my reviews. This film moved at a snail's pace and was very boring. It is more psychological thriller than horror and a bad one at that. There is very little suspense, no twists, and no surprise endings.
The lovely Susan George of the controversial "Mandingo" stars as Marianne, a go-go dancer who is always hiding from her father (Leo Genn of Lucio Fulci's "A Lizard in a Woman's Skin") and her half sister (Judy Huxtable of "Scream and Scream Again"). Her bizarre, perverted family wants her to give them a Swiss account number of a safe deposit box containing a lot of money along with incriminating documents that will send her father to prison. Marianne is always allowing someone to talk her into making unwise choices such as marrying an unattractive man she hardly knows and traveling to a seaside villa to visit with relatives who wish her ill. Just as she feared, they try to kill her.
I'm giving "Die Screaming Marianne," two stars in lieu of one because Susan George and Judy Huxtable are extremely attractive and look like half sisters. I enjoyed watching their scenes together. Also, I am a fan of Leo Genn. Other than that, this film doesn't have much redeeming value. Furthermore, the Shriek Show release of "Die Screaming Marianne" has poor audio and video. (I wonder if the Image release is any better.) There are numerous vertical lines running throughout the film. It is the type of DVD that I will be trading soon. Please don't buy or rent it unless you are a diehard fan who has to see everything Pete Walker directed, no matter how inferior it is.
Summary of Die Screaming Marianne
In notorious British goremaster Pete Walker's first horror film, the beautiful Susan George (Straw Dogs) stars as Marianne, a nightclub dancer desperately running for her life. Marianne is about to turn 21 and inherit the contents of a sizeable Swiss bank account, which includes certain incriminating documents. Trickery, betrayal and death are around every corner in this pulse-pounding, suspense-filled horror thriller.Sexy Susan George (Straw Dogs) pouts and peers from wounded eyes like a B-movie Julie Christie as Marianne, a go-go-dancing free spirit on the run from her lordly father, a defrocked magistrate enigmatically called the Judge (Leo Genn), and her psychotic half-sister. It seems our shapely sweetheart has something everybody wants, namely incriminating files and a small fortune in ill-gotten gains left by her light-fingered mum in a Swiss bank to be handed over on her 21st birthday. A little conspiratorial conniving brings Marianne back to the Judge's seaside estate to await her inheritance, and the blood sport begins.
Handsomely shot in the lofts of swinging London and on the sunny coast of Portugal by future British goremeister Pete Walker, this is a competently made little thriller, familiar in parts and clumsily executed in moments--the flaming car wreck is particularly ragged--but engaging overall. There is no shortage of murder and mayhem, but despite its provocative title, Die Screaming, Marianne only hints at the sex and violence that later became the hallmark of Walker's savage productions Frightmare and House of Whipcord. His signature is found in the sheer desolation of the project. In a Pete Walker film, innocence is no guarantee of survival.
Image Entertainment's full-screen release marks the film's first uncut home-video release in the U.S. The print is worn in places and in parts resorts to less than stellar footage (ostensibly to reconstruct the full version), and the color is slightly subdued, but considering that this is a 1970 drive-in film it looks fine and is quite watchable. --Sean Axmaker
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