The death cry
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The death cry |
| Original title | The shout |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jerzy Skolimowski |
| script |
Robert Graves (Author) Michael Austin (Writer) |
| production | Jeremy Thomas |
| music |
Tony Banks Rupert Hine Mike Rutherford |
| camera | Mike Molloy |
| cut | Barrie Vince |
| occupation | |
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The Death Cry is a horror film by Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski from 1978 and is based on a short story by Robert Graves . It was produced on the Devon coast .
action
Crossley tells a crazy story, his own. He tells it to a non-inmate in the park of a psychiatric hospital. Crossley says that one day he went to see the musician Anthony Fielding. Fielding lives with his wife in a seaside cottage. Fielding works and composes with noises: he works with everyday sounds, the rustling of the wind, the buzzing wasps. Fielding is also the organist in the neighboring church.
Crossley has a strange magic that he learned from Aboriginales and that with sounds, with horrific screams, can kill anyone who is not protected. He is accepted as a guest at the Fieldings, but he also nests in their marriage. It begins to crackle erotically and the drama in the developing triangular relationship creates more and more shudders and horror. The smallest, inconspicuous objects turn into menacing tools when Crossley holds them in his hands. Crossley becomes the couple's nightmare with his shamanistic madness .
Only when Fielding manages to get involved in the magical plane can he defeat Crossley. He is desperately looking for a particular stone that symbolizes Crossley's soul and smashes it when he finds it. Crossleys senses, as he puts it, that his soul is split in four, and his shamanic power disappears instantly.
criticism
The lexicon of international films wrote, “The uncertainty of the modern, rational worldview is achieved through the subtle mixture of the fantastic, fear and horror with the everyday. A delightful film, even if it does not find a clear political point of view in the contemporary criticism it implies. "
Awards
On the occasion of the Cannes International Film Festival in 1978 , the film was awarded the special jury prize.
background
The musical and noise background was recorded and mixed together on forty sound tracks for the Dolby film.
Web links
- The Shout at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Death Cry. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .