The Shout 1978 DVD Color Shown in original aspect ratio Approx. 86 min. Playable in North America (the US, Canada, Mexico, etc.) Optional English subtitles/close captions.
Starring: Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Robert Stephens, Tim Curry, Julian Hough, Carol Drinkwater and Jim Broadbent. Written by Jerzy Skolimowski and Michael Austin from a story by Robert Graves. Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski.
Crossley (Alan Bates), a mysterious travelling man, invades the lives of a young couple, Rachel and Anthony Fielding (Susannah York and John Hurt). Anthony is a composer, who experiments with sound effects and various electronic sources in his secluded Devon studio. The couple provides hospitality to Crossley but his intentions are gradually revealed as more sinister. He claims he has learned from an Aboriginal shaman how to produce a "terror shout" that can kill anyone who hears it unprotected.
“A film of intense perversity - the madness of the mind.”
“The Shout” was notable for its time, for its use of an electronic and avant-garde music score, which, when heard in theaters in Dolby Stereo, was aurally separating and distorting. Reportedly, forty different music tracks were used for the sound.