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Film Description
A macabre tale about a man, Crossley, (Alan Bates) who arrives and shakes up a bored couple's marriage. John Hurt plays the sound artist and Susannah York his wife who fall under the saturnine Crossley’s spell, and soon his destructive influence takes hold as he claims he has the power to kill using a horrifying 'death shout' that he learned from the Aborigines.
This Cannes award winning film that has been justly compared to Nicolas Roeg's classic Don't Look Now and is an unfairly overlooked slice of British supernatural cinema.
Alan Bates is suitably saturnine as Crossley, an intimidating wanderer in a dark overcoat who arrives at a quiet Devonshire village and shakes up a bored couple’s marr... more >
Alan Bates is suitably saturnine as Crossley, an intimidating wanderer in a dark overcoat who arrives at a quiet Devonshire village and shakes up a bored couple’s marriage with unsettling tales of mystery and violence. Crossley claims to have picked up supernatural powers from living with Aborigines – not least, the ability to kill by unleashing a ground-trembling shout. In establishing whether he is mad or a genius, the couple (John Hurt and Susannah York) fall under Crossley’s spell, and soon his destructive influence takes hold. To evoke the stranger’s manipulation of fantasy and reality, The Shout serves up a disjointed, hynotic visual and aural assault (thanks to pioneering use of Dolby stereo sound); the result is a horror-art film that stands out from the crowd. Not quite in the same league as Don’t Look Now, and not quite as oddball as The Wicker Man (although it’s not far off), The Shout nonetheless deserves to be placed in that esteemed company for having ambitions that reach far beyond the staple diet of Gothic and Guignol that constituted seventies British horror. < less
