The Fury

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<B>1979/Color/118 Min./20th Century Fox & Magnetic Video Corp./Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director.............Brian DePal</B><B>ma (</B><I><B>Carrie, Raising Cain, Scarface</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......John Farris</B></div> <div> <B>Music................John Williams (</B><I><B>Star Wars</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........Frank Yablans</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer....Ron Preissman </B></div> <div> <B>Special Make-up by Rick Baker (</B><I><B>Planet of the Apes</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Based on the Novel by John Farris</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Peter.........................Kirk Douglas (</B><I><B>Holocaust 2000, Spartacus,Tough Guys</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Hester.......................Carrie Snodgress (</B><I><B>The Attic, Trick or Treat</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Childress..................John Cassavetes (</B><I><B>The Incubus, Rosemary's Baby</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Jim McKeanon....Charles Durning (</B><I><B>When a Stranger Calls, Tough Guys</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Gillian......................Amy Irving (</B><I><B>Carrie, The Turn of the Screw, Voices</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Susan Charles..........Fiona Lewis (</B><I><B>Dr.Phibes Rises Again, Strange Behavior</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Rob..........................Andrew Stevens (</B><I><B>Scared Stiff, The Terror Within</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Ellen Lundstrom.Carol Rossen</B></div> <div> <B>Kristen.....................Rutanya Alda (</B><I><B>Amityville II, The Dark Half</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Bellaver............Joyce Easten</B></div> <div> <B>Raymond..................William Finley (</B><I><B>Eaten Alive, Phantom ofthe Paradise</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Pam..........................Daryl Hannah (</B><I><B>The Final Terror, Splash, Roxanne</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Vivian McKelts..........Jane Lambert</B></div> <div> <B>Cheryl.......................Hilary Thompson</B></div> <div> <B>Bob...........................Dennis Franz (</B><I><B>Die Hard II, NYPD Blue-</B></I><B>TV, </B><I><B>Psycho II</B></I><B>)</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: The film ends with a bang, but it's probably not loud enough to wake you. This is a mildly diverting yarn, but the scenes at paragon are for the most part pretty slow. Fairly plausible scientific talk about brain waves and biofeedback. Nice touch that grandma falls for Peter in the beginning and helps him tie up the family. The bioplasmic universe is apparently a timeless realm which has a record of every event past and future, and and psychics can occasionally tap into this record. Look at the scary experience of the cast. Casavettes, as always, is good as the heavy. Douglas gives an athletic, but otherwise cumbersome performance. The expected overblown score by John Williams doesn't enhance matters either. Look. 118 minutes is too long, get it? Any time the high point of a horror movie is a cops chase scene, you know something has gone seriously wrong. That's the thing, except for the pathetic apocalyptic ending and like all DePalma horror movies, this is not a horror movie, it's a sci fi-action flick that's ubiquitously miscatalogued. The whole psychic powers bit is not scary, not interesting, and not a good idea.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Mid East 1977. Peter and his son Rob are moving to the states. Rob sees his father apparently killed in a terrorist attack. However, Peter's a tough man to kill. Chicago 1978. Peter (Johnson) has contacted a psychic (Dunwitty) to locate his son. Rob himself is a psychic. The agency almost gets hold of Peter, but acrobatics saves him. In the biofeedback experiment, one of the girls, Gillian, is showing some real skills. Gillian (Amy Irving) is getting a bit of a ribbing from Cheryl. As we suspected, such meanness has bad consequences for the ribber. Peter takes some cops hostage and the chase is on. Peter contacts a girlfriend Hester. Gillian shows up at at Paragon to see Dr. Linstrom when the psychic occurrences are more than she can handle. She wants to be cured, but we soon suspect she's come to the wrong place. Gillian produces a "psychometric field" that induces bleeding. Childress drops in having heard about Gillian. Gillian gets a picture of Robin and she has a strong connection as they torture him with pictures of his father's apparent death. Linstrom has a nice hemorrhage. The plan is to try to break Gillian out before Childress gets her into the agency. When Gillian grabs the director's hand by mistake, she sees that he pushed Rob out a window. Gillian gets "impressions" of a conversation that Robin had had when he was here. Giving Robin a day at the amusement park turns out to be a bad idea when he sees some visiting Arabs on a ride. This cuts the day trip short. After a bit of burgling, Gillian makes her break with Hester's help. However, Hester herself doesn't come out as well. When Gillian arrives at the agency mansion, Robin senses her and becomes jealous of a competitor psychic. Robin goes out of control. Peter is allowed to go up and see Robin, who has busied himself with toying with the security men.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>