The Shout

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jerzy Skolimowski

1978 / 86min / DCP

On an isolated stretch of the Devon shoreline, experimental field recordist John Hurt and wife Susannah York receive an unexpected visitor: a mysterious, seductively charismatic vagabond (Alan Bates) who claims to be able to kill with his vocal cords, and who shortly begins to wield an unusual influence over the couple. York’s performance of saucer-eyed enthrallment sets the unsettling tone of Skolimowski’s eerie, hypnotic thriller, while the insinuating score by Tony Banks and Michael Rutherford of Genesis—abetted by electronic music pioneer Rupert Hine—adds another layer to the rich, menacing aural landscape of The Shout, a film that uniquely addresses the wonderful, terrible power of sound.