The Shout

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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.

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Audio Commentary with horror experts Kim Newman and Steve Jones; Information folder original press pack (PDF format).

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Review by Julian Upton on 8th October 2007

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.

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Article - "(The Alternative!) Best British Films" by James Oliver
Friday 12th October 2007

The Top 10 (in chronological order)
The Manxman
Went the Day Well?
It Happened Here
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Blood on Satan’s Claw
The Offence
House of Whipcord
The Shout
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
Britannia Hospital

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