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The Shout

Name: The Shout
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Horror
Released: 1978-06-16
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 6

★ 6,0 /10 (135 Votes)

1978 EN 86 min

Overview

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.

Stream

Release date

16/06/1978

Votes

135

Popularity

1.1

A film of intense perversity - the madness of the mind.

Genres

Thriller Mystery Horror

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

86 min

Alan Bates

Charles Crossley

Susannah York

Rachel Fielding

John Hurt

Anthony Fielding

Robert Stephens

Chief Medical Officer

Tim Curry

Robert Graves

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Julian Hough

Vicar

Carol Drinkwater

Cobbler's Wife

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John Rees

Inspector

Jim Broadbent

Fielder in Cowpat

Susan Wooldridge

Harriet

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Nick Stringer

Cobbler

Peter Benson

Harry the Shepherd

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Graham Kingsley Brown

Village Churchgoer (uncredited)

Joanna Szczerbic

Cricket Umpire (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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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 cu…

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