1978 · psychological · surreal · cult
The Shout
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski1h 26m1978
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.
Our read: The Shout (1978) reads as a heavy, measured, surreal psychological · surreal · cult entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured psychological / surreal, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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