"The Silent Scream" is an ineffective chiller with a number of feeble loose ends it never ties together.
A co-ed finds a sea-side rental house with some secretive types. She is warned to keep quiet around one of the rooms, inhabited by the house-owner, played by Barbara Steele, star of '60s horror flicks like "Black Sunday", but curiously underused here.
Inevitably, some people start getting sliced up (in fairly non-violent scenes), and Cameron Mitchell comes to investigate. He was the only other actor I recognized.
Obviously the finger seems to point to the old lady. More people die, and the characters don't seem that concerned about it. They go for a walk on the beach one day after someone was murdered there. Shouldn't there be some yellow tape trying to keep people out, and chalk marks on the ground?
I guess there were some twists and turns, but nothing that took me by surprise at all. I didn't care about any of it. None of the actors make any impression. There is a complete lack of human detail to the characterizations that would have provided an entry point for the film. You end up just waiting for the movie to end.
A co-ed finds a sea-side rental house with some secretive types. She is warned to keep quiet around one of the rooms, inhabited by the house-owner, played by Barbara Steele, star of '60s horror flicks like "Black Sunday", but curiously underused here.
Inevitably, some people start getting sliced up (in fairly non-violent scenes), and Cameron Mitchell comes to investigate. He was the only other actor I recognized.
Obviously the finger seems to point to the old lady. More people die, and the characters don't seem that concerned about it. They go for a walk on the beach one day after someone was murdered there. Shouldn't there be some yellow tape trying to keep people out, and chalk marks on the ground?
I guess there were some twists and turns, but nothing that took me by surprise at all. I didn't care about any of it. None of the actors make any impression. There is a complete lack of human detail to the characterizations that would have provided an entry point for the film. You end up just waiting for the movie to end.