The Fury (1978)

The Fury is a supernatural horror thriller made in 1978 and which was directed by Brian De Palma.The film was written by John Farris.

Plot

Peter Sandza, a former CIA agent, is searching for his son, who was kidnapped by a secret intelligence organisation inside the CIA lead by Peter Childress. This organization kidnaps Mediums to turn them into weapons in the service of the Unied States.To achieve this hey also kill their families to have them in their grasp correspondingly, which "forces" them to try to kill Peter, too, an attempt which failed. Still they made his son believe, that he was killed and began to systematically experiment with him to increase his powers, experiments which are horrible for him.

During Peter´s search he encounters a teenage girl called Gillian, who is also a medium, but is also afraid of her powers like Robin, since her powers also cause people around her to bleed, because of her extreme powerful electromagnetic brainwaves. They have also turned their eyes on her, when they realise, that she is as strong as Robin and that she has telepathic contact with him. With the help of an internal employee in the institute, where she is in, he frees her from their grasp and saves her from their plans. Together they begin their search for Robin, who, in the meantime, has become more and more a psychopath because of the evil experiments they have done to harness his abilities and turn him into a weapon and killer.

They find him, but his mind is already in shambles and the near presence of Gillian, whom he had contact with telepathically, turn him into a monster. He dies, when his father has to let him fall from the roof because of his behaviour, which became even more irrational, when he realises in full, how much they deceived, harmed and manipulated him to become, what he is now. Before he dies, he transmits his attained powers and abilities to Gillian with the implied message to avenge him and make sure she will not end like him. When he dies, his father commits suicide. Childress, who arranged this fatal confrontation between father and son is happy about it.

The next morning Childress tries to manipulate Gillian in a similar way he manipulated Robin. Realising he wanted to do the same to her as he did with Robin, she embraces her powers and attained powers she was afraid of and kills him with them by exploding his body.

It is implied, that she then fiies from this organisation to protect herself and her mother from ending like Peter and Robin using her extreme powerful medium powers for that.

Cast

• Kirk Douglas as Peter Sandza
• John Cassavetes as Ben Childress
• Amy Irving as Gillian Bellaver
• Carrie Snodgress as Hester
• Charles Durning as Dr. Jim McKeever
• Andrew Stevens as Robin Sandza
• Fiona Lewis as Dr. Susan Charles
• Carol Rossen as Dr. Ellen Lindstrom
• Joyce Easton as Katherine Bellaver
• William Finley as Raymond Dunwoodie
• Daryl Hannah as Pam

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