The Shout

1978

Action / Drama / Horror

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 86% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 66% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 6191 6.2K

small town composer cricket super power based on short story devon

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Plot summary

A traveller 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.

Director

Jerzy Skolimowski Photo
Jerzy Skolimowski

Top cast

Tim Curry Photo
Tim Curry as Robert Graves
John Hurt Photo
John Hurt as Anthony Fielding
Jim Broadbent Photo
Jim Broadbent as Fielder in cowpat
Susan Wooldridge Photo
Susan Wooldridge as Harriet
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795.15 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
R
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 5
1.44 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
R
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 28

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by rogerco 6 / 10

I remember seeing this when it first came

I remember seeing this when it first came out (1978) and thinking it a bit overblown. Just watched it again (2020) after it was featured in a list of films containing an English cricket match (a short list; The Go Between from the same period is another one, also with Alan Bates in a similar role) It now seems a bit better than I remembered despite some inconsistencies and plot holes. Alan Bates, for all his brooding lumbering around, never quite pulls off the surreal menace that the role of Crossley, the man with The Shout That Can Kill, demands. John Hurt as Anthony the philandering cuckold composer, seems unbelievably weak in the face of Crossley's invasion of his life, but that's what the role as written demands. Tim Curry as Robert Graves (not the real one!) listens to Crossley's tale with suitable wide-eyed innocence in the hut as they are scoring the locals versus loonies cricket match at the asylum. The cast features many well known English actors of the period, including Susannah York getting her nipples out as usual and a young Jim Broadbent ripping his kit off to prance about in his pants in the thunderstorm that terminates the match, and the film. The Devon locations are an added bonus. All in all an entertaining 90 minutes although not a great film by any means. (and there isn't that much cricket!). Worth 3/5 or 4/7 if you prefer a finer grained rating system)
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Reviewed by Stay_away_from_the_Metropol 8 / 10

Simply put, one of the oddest films I have ever seen

I don't even know where to start but I will try. Alan Bates is mystifying and terrifying - and I get the oddest feeling that the Coen Brothers love this movie and bit the character for Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men. John Hurt plays a character who is offensively passive but very likable and he does it with flying colors - his performance is great. Susannah York's role requires great dynamic and she pulls it off menacingly. The plot is so minimal and open-ended it doesn't even feel like a plot, but the experience goes unmatched. The environments are often breathtaking and the editing, pacing, and "progression" of the plot makes the entire movie feel like a bad dream. Through the second half of the film, everything that occurs is so out-there that you can no longer question any small detail - everything is absurd but it feels organic and cohesive in it's own freakish sense. Admittedly, I don't understand the ending, but I don't even care - it still feels climactic and satisfying, and most outstanding dreams are not fully explicable either... for fans of any and all oddities... this one is not to be missed.

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