The Shout
1978
A film of intense perversity - the madness of the mind.
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
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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.
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- Director
- Jerzy Skolimowski
- Written by
- Jerzy Skolimowski, Michael Austin, Robert Graves
- Produced by
- Jeremy Thomas
- Composers
- Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks
- Cinematographer
- Mike Molloy
- Editor
- Barrie Vince
- Studios
- The Rank Organisation, National Film Trustee Company, National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC)
- Origin country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Language
- English
- Rating
- R
- TMDB
- 6.0/10 (129 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 86% Fresh
- IMDb
- 6.5/10 (5,864 votes)
Cast
Alan Bates
Charles Crossley
Susannah York
Rachel Fielding
John Hurt
Anthony Fielding
Robert Stephens
Chief Medical Officer
Tim Curry
Robert Graves
Julian Hough
Vicar
Carol Drinkwater
Cobbler's Wife
John Rees
Inspector
Jim Broadbent
Fielder in Cowpat
Susan Wooldridge
Harriet
Nick Stringer
Cobbler
Peter Benson
Harry the Shepherd
Graham Kingsley Brown
Village Churchgoer (uncredited)
Joanna Szczerbic
Cricket Umpire (uncredited)
Crew
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Podcasts
The Evolution of Horror — HOME INVASION Pt 11: Fright (1971) & The Shout (1978)
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