Synopsis
When a devious plot separates CIA agent Peter Sandza from his son, Robin, the distraught father manages to see through the ruse. Taken because of his psychic abilities, Robin is being held by Ben Childress, who is studying people with supernatural powers in hopes of developing their talents as weapons. Soon Peter pairs up with Gillian, a teen who has telekinesis, to find and rescue Robin.
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Cast
- Kirk DouglasPeter Sandza
- John CassavetesBen Childress
- Amy IrvingGillian Bellaver
- Carrie SnodgressHester
- Charles DurningDr. Jim McKeever
- Fiona LewisDr. Susan Charles
- Andrew StevensRobin Sandza
- Carol Eve RossenDr. Ellen Lindstrom
- Rutanya AldaKristen
- William FinleyRaymond Dunwoodie
Recommendations
- 100
Slant Magazine
Ultimately, The Fury is a film about pre-pubescence by a director whose work had finally reached the level of confidence reflecting a post-pubescent talent. The best of both worlds, baby, and barely legal. - 80
CineVue
Some films, though very much of their time in style and approach, are timeless in their ability to unnerve. De Palma’s The Fury is one such fine genre exercise. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
The Fury is a stylish entertainment, fast-paced, and acted with great energy. - 70
The Guardian
Like The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Fury yokes together a spy thriller and a domestic drama while also incorporating elements of SF and horror. - 70
The New Yorker
The script (John Farris's adaptation of his novel) is cheap gothic espionage occultism involving two superior beings--spiritual twins (Andrew Stevens and Amy Irving) who have met only telepathically. But the film is so visually compelling that a viewer seems to have entered a mythic night world; no Hitchcock thriller was ever so intense, went so far, or had so many "classic" sequences. - 70
Variety
The Fury features Kirk Douglas and John Cassavetes as adversaries in an elaborate game of mind control. Director Brian De Palma is on home ground in moving the plot pieces around effectively. - 67
The A.V. Club
The plot’s too fitful, but a stirring John Williams score ties a lot of the pieces together, and De Palma and Farris’ emphasis on children’s misplaced trust in authority figures helps The Fury resonate even when the story peters out. - 50
The New York Times
The Fury was directed by Brian De Palma in what appears to have been an all-out effort to transform the small-scale, Grand Guignol comedy of his Carrie into an international horror/spy/occult mind-blower of a movie. He didn't concentrate hard enough, though.
