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The Shout
The Shout is a 1978 British horror film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Alan Bates, Susannah York and John Hurt. It was based on a short story by Robert Graves and adapted for the screen by Skolimowski and Michael Austin. The film was the first to be produced by Jeremy Thomas under his Recorded Picture Company banner.
Crossley, a mysterious travelling man, invades the lives of a young couple, Rachel and Anthony Fielding. Anthony is a composer, who experiments with sound effects and various electronic sources in his secluded Devon studio. The couple provides hospitality to Crossley but his intentions are gradually revealed as more sinister. He claims he has learned from an Aboriginal shaman how to produce a "terror shout" that can kill anyone who hears it unprotected.
Producer Jeremy Thomas had initially wanted Nicolas Roeg to direct the film but Roeg was unavailable. Eventually Thomas hired Jerzy Skolimowski due to Skolimowski's fluency in English as well as having been impressed with his prior work on Deep End. Finance came in part from the Rank Organisation.
Interiors were shot at Pinewood Studios; the film's sets were designed by the art director Simon Holland. The North Devon coastline, specifically Saunton Sands and Braunton Burrows, was used for the bulk of the location shooting. The church of St Peter in Westleigh was used for the church scenes.[citation needed] The producer, Jeremy Thomas, later remembered his experience making the film,
Because I had a great director, and a quality piece of literature, I managed to get a wonderful cast such as John Hurt and Alan Bates. Skolimowski had a sense of shooting style then, this was the second director who[m] I had worked closely with, and it was fascinating watching Skolimowski work. He came from a Polish tradition, the Wajda Film School, he had a different background to other directors I had been working with in the cutting rooms or elsewhere. And it made the film much more creative to me. I saw it more as an artistic endeavour by him. The film went to Cannes and won the Grand Prix de Jury. We were incredibly lucky and the film was appreciated by the jury. It was a very small festival then, nothing like the Cannes Film Festival of today, it was a small event in a cinema of 800 people or so.
The soundtrack was by Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks of the progressive rock band Genesis. The central theme "From the Undertow" features on Banks's 1979 album A Curious Feeling.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Let down, finally, only by the wild antics of the conclusion, which almost suggests that this is the intellectual's Exorcist, The Shout is an elegant mirror-box construction, with uniquely dovetailed performances from its starry cast."
Leslie Halliwell wrote "Curiously gripping but ultimately pointless fable, very well done to little purpose."
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The Shout
The Shout is a 1978 British horror film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Alan Bates, Susannah York and John Hurt. It was based on a short story by Robert Graves and adapted for the screen by Skolimowski and Michael Austin. The film was the first to be produced by Jeremy Thomas under his Recorded Picture Company banner.
Crossley, a mysterious travelling man, invades the lives of a young couple, Rachel and Anthony Fielding. Anthony is a composer, who experiments with sound effects and various electronic sources in his secluded Devon studio. The couple provides hospitality to Crossley but his intentions are gradually revealed as more sinister. He claims he has learned from an Aboriginal shaman how to produce a "terror shout" that can kill anyone who hears it unprotected.
Producer Jeremy Thomas had initially wanted Nicolas Roeg to direct the film but Roeg was unavailable. Eventually Thomas hired Jerzy Skolimowski due to Skolimowski's fluency in English as well as having been impressed with his prior work on Deep End. Finance came in part from the Rank Organisation.
Interiors were shot at Pinewood Studios; the film's sets were designed by the art director Simon Holland. The North Devon coastline, specifically Saunton Sands and Braunton Burrows, was used for the bulk of the location shooting. The church of St Peter in Westleigh was used for the church scenes.[citation needed] The producer, Jeremy Thomas, later remembered his experience making the film,
Because I had a great director, and a quality piece of literature, I managed to get a wonderful cast such as John Hurt and Alan Bates. Skolimowski had a sense of shooting style then, this was the second director who[m] I had worked closely with, and it was fascinating watching Skolimowski work. He came from a Polish tradition, the Wajda Film School, he had a different background to other directors I had been working with in the cutting rooms or elsewhere. And it made the film much more creative to me. I saw it more as an artistic endeavour by him. The film went to Cannes and won the Grand Prix de Jury. We were incredibly lucky and the film was appreciated by the jury. It was a very small festival then, nothing like the Cannes Film Festival of today, it was a small event in a cinema of 800 people or so.
The soundtrack was by Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks of the progressive rock band Genesis. The central theme "From the Undertow" features on Banks's 1979 album A Curious Feeling.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Let down, finally, only by the wild antics of the conclusion, which almost suggests that this is the intellectual's Exorcist, The Shout is an elegant mirror-box construction, with uniquely dovetailed performances from its starry cast."
Leslie Halliwell wrote "Curiously gripping but ultimately pointless fable, very well done to little purpose."