The Shout (1978 film)
Summary
"A film of intense perversity - the madness of the mind." A traveler by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
Details
- Release Date: 1978
- Country/Language: UK, English
- Genres/Technical: Fantasy, Drama, Thriller, Art/Experimental
- Runtime: 1 hr 26 min
- Starring: Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt
- Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
- Writer: Robert Graves (story), Michael Austin (screenplay)
- Producer/Production Co: Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Rank Organisation, The, Jeremy Thomas Productions
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Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: R (Violence, Nudity, Sexual Content, Profanity, Adult Content)
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)
Another bizarre art/experimental horror film that runs mostly on dream logic and which might remind some viewers of a "Lovecraftian" atmosphere (the sort of thing I've been loosely categorizing as having an "Eldritch Location" setting).
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
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Synopsis
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When a wandering man named Crossley insinuates himself into the lives of British composer Anthony Fielding and his wife, Rachel, the couple is cautiously hospitable. Isolated out in rural Devon, where Anthony works on his music, the Fieldings find that their enigmatic guest has some strange preoccupations, most notably an obsession with dark Aboriginal magic. Crossley claims that he can kill a person with a mystical shout, but is he telling the truth?
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