The Fury (1978)

[greenmachine]

AMC network's been showing The Fury (1978) on its "Fear Friday" late night line-up over the last few months. I usually catch it when it's on and always find it pretty entertaining.

Others who've seen it would most likely agree that it's somewhat similar to Carrie and Scanners, though not a rip-off. In fact the only similarity is the basic theme on telekinesis. In some ways I'd argue that The Fury is as good as either of the other two films. Personally, I found it a bit more intense than
Carrie, and just as graphic as Scanners.

Any thoughts and opinions?

[JJFlamingo]

Cassavetes is fun as the villain and Fiona Lewis's death is cool and nasty, otherwise the film is average...

7/10

[Cronos]

Watched this without hearing/reading anything about it and loved it, great acting and direction, good, interesting plot and characters. Might even prefer it to Carrie and Scanners. Damn good film.

9/10

[Henry Lee Lucas]

I saw this when I first started getting into De Palma.

Scanners is waaaayyyyy better. Other then sharing telekinesis, they both have exploding heads.
Scanners is definitely more graphic and fits better in the Sci-Fi category then Fury does. Kirk Douglas is probably the best part of the movie. I remember really hating his kid though, he was worse then the lead in Scanners.




Either way theyre both being remade.

[KillerKlown]

I picked this classic up at asda the other week for only £2.

[Cronos]

I picked this classic up at asda the other week for only £2.
I'd better get my ass down to asda.

[doaflip]

I picked this classic up at asda the other week for only £2.

Haha I've picked up huge amounts of cheap DVDs from Asda, the highlight being the Phantasm boxset (digipack not the ball) for 15 quid I think within a couple of weeks of it coming out.

Anyway, I keep seeing The Fury on the shelf at my local Blockbuster. I'm running out of stuff to rent from there so I'll probably give this a go.

Has there ever been a director as hit-and-miss as De Palma though?

[Henry Lee Lucas]

Has there ever been a director as hit-and-miss as De Palma though?

Argento? But no De Palma is soooo hit-or-miss. If you really think about it though, hes a terrible writer, but with a camera he knows what hes doing. No matter how derivative of Hitchcock or Argento.