The Fury is a 1978 sci-fi/horror/thriller film directed by Brian de Palma. The film was written by John Farris based on his novel of the same name. It starred Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Irving, Charles Durning and Andrew Stevens. The music was composed by John Williams, and was highly praised by critic Pauline Kael, who called it "as elegant and delicately varied a score as any horror film has ever had". Image File history File links Size of this preview: 405 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (510 × 755 pixel, file size: 46 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Theatrical release poster for The Fury. ... Brian De Palma (born James Giacinto DePalma on September 11, 1940 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American film director. ... Frank Yablans (born August 27, 1935) is an American film producer and screenwriter. ... 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Storyline

The plot combines elements of horror and the spy thriller. A teenage girl, Gillian Bellaver (Amy Irving) discovers that she possesses psychic powers, including telekinesis and extra-sensory perception, but that other people suffer bleeding if they touch her. She volunteers to attend the Paragon Clinic, whose director, Dr McKeever (Charles Durning), works for a shady intelligence operative named Childress (John Cassavetes). Childress has betrayed his friend Peter Sandza (Kirk Douglas) and is using Sandza's psychic son Robin (Andrew Stevens) in research into the weapons potential of psychics. Meanwhile Peter, who survived Childress' set-up, is searching for his son; with Gillian's help and that of his girlfriend Hester (Carrie Snodgress) he tracks Robin down, but Childress' ruthless experiments have driven the young man insane, and he and Peter both die within minutes of their reunion. As he dies, Robin has some form of psychic contact with Gillian. When Childress tries to persuade Gillian to accept his "help", she finally accepts her talent and kills him by exploding him from the inside out. Psychokinesis (literally mind-movement) or PK is the more commonly used term today for what in the past was known as telekinesis (literally distant-movement). It refers to the psi ability to influence the behavior of matter by mental intention (or possibly some other aspect of mental activity) alone. ... Extra-sensory perception (ESP) is defined in parapsychology as the ability to aquire information by paranormal means. ...

Trivia

• Parts of this feature were filmed at Old Chicago of Bolingbrook, Illinois; a now defunct amusement park.
• The film features early performances by Dennis Franz (in his debut) and Daryl Hannah. Franz plays a cop driving a car hijacked by Douglas' character and gets about 10 minutes of screen time and numerous lines. Hannah plays a student at a school attended by Irving's character and gets about 5 minutes of screen time and almost no lines.
• Jim Belushi appears as an extra, his appearance becoming a topic many years later on David Letterman's show when he was a guest.

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External link

• The Fury at the Internet Movie Database