Netflix pick for 6/20/16 – ‘The Fury’

As heard in episode 180 of Cinema Crespodiso.

“The Fury” is a 1978 Brian De Palma supernatural thriller about young people with telekinetic powers, the shadowy people who want to turn them into weapons, and the father of one of these young people desperately trying to get his son back. Featuring a great Kirk Douglas performance as the father looking for his son, a wonderful John Williams soundtrack, and way more fake blood than initially expected, this movie is perfect 1970’s De Palma, in that it is, in its own special way, kind of an insane movie.

If you’ve seen any De Palma before, like “Scarface” or “Dressed to Kill” or even his more recent stuff like “Mission: Impossible” and “Femme Fatale,” than you know he has a knack for showing elaborate sequences, often presented in slow motion, usually ending in something crazy like someone’s death, and “The Fury” does not disappoint in this regard. There are a few excellent sequences like this, and some pretty wild special effects that involve things like people bleeding from multiple orifices and even one body exploded from the inside out, as this movie approaches “Carrie” levels of bloody violence.

It is not all psychic horrors, however, as Kirk Douglas gets to do some joking around here and there, especially when he finds himself on the run from government operatives tracking him down and he ends up taking a couple of Chicago police officers hostage to get away and one of them turns out to be Dennis Franz in his very first movie role and his character is very concerned about his brand new car that he is taking for a spin and it is a really well done sequence and a lot of fun and a highlight of the movie for sure.

“The Fury” has a number if great scenes and sequences and makes for a damn good movie, which you can see now for yourself right here on the Netflix Instant.