ARRIVING on 15 September is Network’s Blu-ray release of The Shout (15), RRP £14.99. Oscar-nominee Alan Bates turns in one of his most forceful performances as an asylum inmate with supernatural powers in a film that is both highly unsettling and deeply compelling – a perfect companion piece to Nicolas Roeg’s ’70s masterpiece Don’t Look Now.
Also featuring strong performances from Susannah York (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?) and John Hurt (The Elephant Man, Alien), and employing a distinctive narrative style employed by Palm d’Or-nominated director Jerzy Skolimowski (Essential Killing, The Avengers).
During a cricket match at an insane asylum between the inmates and the local villagers, patients Crossley and Graves keep themselves entertained by telling stories. Crossley tells of how he came to possess supernatural powers enabling him to kill with a single shout and although his friend dismisses the tale as an insane fantasy, as the match continues the proceedings take an emphatically sinister turn. Click above for a clip.
Also available on the same day is the Richard Burton horror The Medusa Touch, part of The British Film Collection from Network.
