The Shout (1978)
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski

Horror / Drama

Film Synopsis

The writer Robert Graves attends a cricket match between the inmates of a psychiatric clinic and the local villagers. He is approached by one of the patients, Charles Crossley, and the two strike up an immediate friendship. Crossely claims that whilst in Australia he encountered witchcraft and learnt about a shout that could kill. A short while later, he dies mysteriously. Could he have been the victim of his Satanic discovery...

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Film Credits

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Script: Robert Graves (story), Michael Austin, Jerzy Skolimowski
Cinematographer: Mike Molloy
Cast: Alan Bates (Crossley), Susannah York (Rachel Fielding), John Hurt (Anthony Fielding), Robert Stephens (Medical Man), Tim Curry (Robert Graves), Julian Hough (Vicar), Carol Drinkwater (Wife), John Rees (Inspector), Jim Broadbent (Fielder in cowpat), Susan Wooldridge (Harriet), Nick Stringer (Cobbler), Peter Benson (Harry the Shepherd), Colin Higgins
Country: UK
Language: English
Support: Color
Runtime: 86 min

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