{"id":8507,"date":"2024-11-18T23:36:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T04:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=8507"},"modified":"2024-11-18T23:36:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T04:36:52","slug":"the-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/11\/18\/the-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fury"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Fury <\/strong>(1978)\u00a0\u00a0 20th Century Fox\/Suspense-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 120 minutes\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, violence, some gory images)\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Brian De Palma\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: John Farris\u00a0\u00a0 Music: John Williams\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Richard H. Kline\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 10, 1978 (US)\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Irving, Andrew Stevens, Charles Durning, Fiona Lewis, Carol Rossen, Rutanya Alda, Joyce Easton, William Finley, Dennis Franz, Alice Nunn, Melody Thomas Scott, Hilary Thompson, Patrick Billingsley, Gordon Jump, Daryl Hannah, Laura Innes.\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $24M (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0When it comes to Brian De Palma, people talk about Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables and even the director’s notorious misfire The Bonfire of the Vanities. Nobody seems to remember\u00a0The Fury<\/strong>, a neat little thriller about psychic teenagers and a sinister government agency that wants to use their powers for evil.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It all starts in Israel where government agent Peter Sandza (Douglas, Out of the Past) is vacationing with his teenage son Robin (Stevens, The Seduction). He\u2019s been stationed in the Middle East for twenty years and is ready for a change. On the eve of them returning to the States, Peter\u2019s best friend Ben Childress (Cassavetes, Two Minute Warning) betrays him by staging a terrorist attack as a pretext for kidnapping Robin. He works for a secret government agency that wants to use the boy for nefarious purposes. Much to his annoyance, Peter survives and devotes his entire being to finding his son.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Meanwhile, Gillian Bellaver (Irving, Carrie) discovers she possesses psychic powers after an incident with a bully at her school. Naturally, she freaks out. Convinced she\u2019s a danger to everybody around her, she moves into the Paragon Institute, a live-in research facility run by Dr. Jim McKeever (Durning, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) that specializes in studying paranormal powers in teens. She catches the attention of Hester (Snodgress, Murphy\u2019s Law), a nurse who happens to be Peter\u2019s girlfriend. She tells him the girl might be his best chance to find Robin because there\u2019s a psychic link between the two teens. Time is a factor as Peter must get to the girl before Childress who knows about her through McKeever.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The Fury<\/strong>\u00a0is a combination horror movie and spy thriller. It’s kind of like Carrie meets The Manchurian Candidate by way of James Bond. It has plenty of exciting scenes as well as some truly frightening moments. The cast is exceptional. Douglas is terrific as the dogged father determined to locate his son. Cassavetes is also great as the two-faced friend who wants to turn Robin into a psychic weapon to be used against any enemy of the US. Detached as he is dangerous, what he doesn’t count on is the mind-control experiments being performed on Robin are turning him into a psychopath as evidenced by the scene at an amusement park where he commits an act of horrific violence with his increasingly dangerous powers.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It’s astonishing Stevens never made it that big as an actor. He’s really good in The Fury<\/strong>. Irving is perfect as the terrified teenager just starting to understand her extraordinary gift. She’s scared of what she might be capable of and wants to learn to control it. Childress would like nothing more than to get his hands on Gillian and make her a subject in his experiments. She knows she’s in danger and spends a good part of the movie dodging his men with Peter as her only protector.<\/p>\n

\u00a0De Palma has a real gift for making the ludicrous seem plausible and the plausible look bizarre. He does it by maintaining tight control over the material while allowing the story to veer off into unexpected directions. The Fury\u00a0<\/strong>is stylish, fast-paced, taut and rife with suspense. It\u2019s a deft blend of two distinct genres that rarely feels unbalanced. It may be a bit convoluted in explaining its villain\u2019s end game, but there\u2019s so much going on that you probably won\u2019t realize it until after it\u2019s over. The score by John Williams (Star Wars) perfectly augments the movie\u2019s wild style. It has some good bloody violence and thrilling scenes of Douglas trying to stay one step ahead of his former colleague and his goons with guns.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I feel comfortable saying The Fury\u00a0<\/strong>is one of De Palma\u2019s best movies. I like what he does with the material. His signature touches make it stand out from other horror movies of its time. Sure, it\u2019s pure silliness, but it\u2019s such a run ride you won\u2019t even notice. And even if you do, it\u2019s still fun.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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