Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5921 in VHS
• Released on: 1997-08-18
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: HiFi Sound, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 92 minutes

Synopsis
When a collection of women become shop mannequins it's up to the local detective to investigate the strange goings on at the mad professor's house.

Customer Reviews

Hammer Horror is murdered by the team.
With Sidney James absent, Steptoe & Son's Harry H Corbett steps in for his one and only Carry On... This was the 12th entry in the series and the one that takes a bite out of the successful Hammer Horror series. Corbett is Inspector Bung an incompetent police man whos job it is to investigate the disappearance of girls in Hocombe Woods. His investigations lead him to the Bide A Wee Rest Home where he finds Valeria Watt (Fanella Fielding). Unbeknown to Bung she and her brother, the undead Dr Orlando Watt (Kenneth Williams) are "vitrifying" the girls and selling them as shop window dummies. The costumes, sets, music and acting are all spot on and this is one of the best in the series. It really was a golden age for the series and everyone was firing on all cylinders. We'd never see Fielding or Corbett in the series again which was a shame. There is excellent support from Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale, Peter Butterworth, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw and Angela Douglas. The best moments are between Corbett, Sims and their telephone!

One of the best
Carry On Screaming is one of the best in the entire collection. Everybody loves a horror spoof, and they don't really come better than this. The whole Frankenstein-parody is cool, although I must say that they could have added a few other famous horror characters in here to really do the film justice. If there was ever a Carry On that could be altered span a three hour running time, this one would be at the top of the list.

Kenneth Williams is fantastic as always, and I just adore Fennela Fieldimg....she has to be the most beautiful woman in the Carry Ons.......Jim Dale is one of my favourite of the Carry On Team, and he plays his part very well here.

Now, there is some question as to whether or not Harry H Corbett did a good job of filling in Sid James' shoes. The answer is, he was doing no such thing. If Sid was in this Carry On (which I honestly wish he had been), I don't think Bung would have been his character. What a joy it would have been to see Corbett and James working together. If Only. The settings in this offering are brilliant.....the Bide-A-Wee rest home adding a very eerie potency to the atmosphere.

If you are an avid carry on fan, like I am, you have to buy this......if you don't, you are missing out on something very special......Joan Sims in plastic ;)

This was their finest hour.....
This has to be the best CarryOn ever made. It was the last made by Anglo Amalgamated before the series transferred to Rank and a gradual decline into smut; and it is a splendid parody of the contemporary Hammer Horror and of melodramatic thrillers in general. Harry H Corbett is superb as the laconic Det Sgt. Bung (a very fitting name) with Peter Butterworth as the bumbling Slobotham. Fenella Fielding brings a smoldering appeal to the screen while Jim Dale plays the gawky but gallant hero in a similar style to his Marshal P Knut in "Carry On Cowboy. I got the tape remembering what it had been like in the cinema; I was not disappointed.