THE SILENT SCREAM (1979) – Episode 256 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“Why did you have to rent those rooms?” Money, money, money, money! Money! Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – as they take in a film with a pretty decent cast, yet it wasn’t one they’d heard of. We’re talking about The Silent Scream (1979).

Decades of Horror 1970s
Episode 256 – The Silent Scream (1979)

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Synopsis: During her first semester at college, a co-ed finds housing at a seaside mansion where, following the death of a fellow student, she becomes entangled in a murder mystery surrounding the property and its secretive tenants.

• Director: Denny Harris
• Writers: Ken Wheat & Jim Wheat and Wallace C. Bennett
• Selected Cast:
  • Rebecca Balding as Scotty Parker
  • Cameron Mitchell as Lt. Sandy McGiver
  • Avery Schreiber as Sgt. Manny Ruggin
  • Barbara Steele as Victoria Engels
  • Steve Doubet as Jack Towne
  • Brad Rearden as Mason Engels
  • John Widelock as Peter Ransom
  • Jack Stryker as Police Chief
  • Thelma Pelish as Housing Lady
  • Tina Tyler as Victoria at 16
  • Yvonne De Carlo as Mrs. Engels
  • Juli Andelman as Doris Prichart

Your 70s Grue-Crew didn’t know what to expect from The Silent Scream (1979) but were excited by the cast (Yvonne De Carlo, Barbara Steele, Cameron Mitchell, Avery Schreiber, and Rebecca Balding) and interested by its somewhat troubled production history. After filming of the original script was completed, there was a complete rewrite, new actors were hired (Steele, De Carlo, Mitchell, Schreiber, & Brad Rearden) and over 85% of the film was reshot. By most accounts, the changes yielded better results. The Grue-Crew is generally surprised by this film and finds it to be an average slasher with complicated relationships. As always, we had fun discussing this one!

At the time of this writing, The Silent Scream (1979) is available to stream from Plex and YouTube. The film is also available in 4K UHD from Kino Lorber.

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 ‘70s episode, chosen by Chad, will be The Hand That Feeds the Dead (1974, La mano che nutre la morte), starring the one, the only, the infamous Klaus Kinski!

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