The Shout
Often overlooked 70s English fantasy/horror that oozes style and artistic merit from pretty much every frame of film. Alan Bates plays a mysterious stranger who forces himself into John Hurt and Susannah York's lives and home. Once there he tells of how he can kill by a magic shout taught to him by aborigines when he lived in Australia.
There is a really menace to Bate's performance that is balanced beautifully by Hurt's decline into fearful weakness. However York steals the show as she transforms from upright middle class, house wife into a woman with no control over her lust for Bates.
The film has a wrap round story involving a cricket match in the grounds of a mental hospital that adds to the ambiguity of the action, leaving more questions than answers. Highly recommended.
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