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    Fury, The (1978)

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    Brian De Palma’s follow-up to Carrie (1976) keeps the telekinetic kid but swaps tampons and girl power for a psy-spy caper.

    CIA agent Peter (Kirk Douglas) has a mind-bending son, Robin (Andrew Stevens) who is seized by shadowy spooks from the Multiphasic Operations Research Group led by Ben Childress (a deliciously nefarious John Cassavetes), who has been a loyal assistant to Peter but betrays him on behalf of an organisation so secret that even the CIA doesn’t know of its existence.

    While Peter is searching for his missing son he makes contact with Gillian (Amy Irving) – a girl who makes people bleed when she is seized by anger, fear or vision. A lot of nice people end up violently dead from trying to help with her problems.

    De Palma stages superb set pieces, including a slo-mo foot chase and a man telekinetically exploding like a watermelon. Sadly, he doesn’t seem to care about the illogical plot and can’t match the low-rent grittiness of Cronenberg’s later Scanners (1981).

    Peter
    Kirk Douglas
    Ben Childress
    John Cassavetes
    Hester
    Carrie Snodgress
    Dr Jim McKeever
    Charles Durning
    Gillian
    Amy Irving
    Susan Charles
    Fiona Lewis
    Robin
    Andrew Stevens
    Dr Ellen Lindstrom
    Carol Eve Rossen
    Kristen
    Rutanya Alda
    Mrs Bellaver
    Joyce Easton
    Raymond
    William Finley
    Vivian Nuckells
    Jane Lambert
    Blackfish
    Sam Laws
    Robertson
    J. Patrick McNamara
    Mrs Callahan
    Alice Nunn

    Director
    Brian De Palma

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