From a Whisper to a Scream is a 1987 American anthology horror film co-written and directed by Jeff Burr and starring Vincent Price, Susan Tyrrell, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser, Harry Caesar, Rosalind Cash, Cameron Mitchell, and Martine Beswick.

Developed by Burr, C. Courtney Joyner, and Darin Scott, all former film students, From a Whisper to a Scream was largely shot on location in Dalton, Georgia.

The first of the stories, set in contemporary times, involves awkward and lonely grocer Stanley Burnside, who takes care of his codependent ailing sister, Eileen.

Doctors manage to piece his disarticulated body parts back together, but are unable to explain how he is alive, while also stating (while Jesse hears them) that he is destined to live in an eternal screaming agony, without the ability of speaking.

Steven's relationship with Amarrallis is met with the ire of the controlling, cruel snakewoman who owns the carnival and manipulates the performers with voodoo.

He is recaptured and comes to learn the children are all orphans of Confederate soldiers, avenging their parents while at the same time creating a cult to rule over their forgotten territory.

In her letters, Katherine claimed that Julian, who raised her from childhood, "poisoned her mind" with his beliefs that Oldfield is a place full of evil, which itself brought on her desires for murder.

From a Whisper to a Scream was developed by Jeff Burr, C. Courtney Joyner, Mike Malone, and Darin Scott, all former film students and friends who met one another while attending the University of Southern California.

[8]Price—who at that point in his career was reluctant to do more horror movies—later expressed regret at taking the role in a letter to German actor and puppeteer Gerd J. Pohl, claiming his agent had misrepresented the film.

"[11] L. Kent Wolgamott of the Lincoln Journal Star wrote that "a couple of the segments are good," but added that some of the sequences are "pretty bloody and hard to believe.

"[12] Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a favorable review, noting: "There's a mood throughout of foul things squirming up to the light.

Writer-director Jeff Burr and co-writers Courtney Joyner and Darin Scott show a welcome reverence for the past of movie horror.