The Shout

Name: The Shout
Genre: Drama, Horror
Released: August 10, 1979
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 67

1979

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Films Incorporated | Release Date: August 10, 1979 | R

Summary: 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.

Genre(s): Drama, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 86 min

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Collider Olga Artemyeva

It's a truly visionary piece that feels completely modern and manages to not only be chilling but to pack commentary on so many relevant issues, from interpersonal power dynamics and conventional views of masculinity in society to colonial guilt and the fear of "the other". Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Skolimowski's second feature made in Britain is something of a triumph for independent production, with an impressively streamlined screenplay and faultless performances. Read full review

Screen Rant Richard Craig

Eerie, surreal, and impossible to categorize neatly, The Shout remains a unique horror movie that has never received the wider appreciation it deserves. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Though Skolimowski had backed off from his formal ambitions somewhat (he once seemed a real rival to Godard), this 1978 feature is shrewd, imaginative moviemaking, a trance thriller that beats Peter Weir on his own turf. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski has been able to create a gripping film [from a story by Robert Graves] that holds attention most of the way through its economical length. Read full review

The Telegraph Philip Horne

Based on a Robert Graves story about an Australian aboriginal "death-shout'', this elliptical, deeply disorientating puzzle of a film takes us on a mesmerising journey into cricket, madness and the supernatural. [20 Oct 2007, p.17]

Vincent Canby

The story starts off well, like almost any ghost story made up by a child, but then it becomes so full of loose ends, contradictions, cryptic symbols and close-ups of objects that, at the moment, have no meaning, that one eventually tunes out of the narrative, much as one does when the child's ghost story becomes too hopelessly muddled for even the child to unravel. Read full review

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