The Fury
A desperate father battles a covert agency exploiting psychic children in Brian De Palma’s stylish, violent supernatural thriller.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Graphic
- tense
- paranoid
- stylish
- late night horror viewing
- 1970s genre marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly found the film fast-paced, stylish, energetically acted, and effective in its spectacular set pieces, while also faulting its incoherent and thin story.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Brian De Palma emphasizes elaborate suspense staging, subjective psychic effects, and bravura sequences over sustained exposition.
Childress's agency gathers psychic children and trains them for lethal military applications.
The secret agency's intelligence operations and proposed use of psychic abilities evoke clandestine Cold War power structures.
Telepathy and telekinesis produce frightening physical manifestations and bloody supernatural violence.
Films like The Fury, and why
Carrie
psychokinetic horror, government experimentation, and escalating supernatural violence
Scanners
telekinetic adolescents, sinister institutions, and paranoid psychological horror
The Dead Zone
stylized supernatural thriller mechanics, conspiratorial plotting, and elaborate set pieces
The Medusa Touch
1970s occult science fiction, pursued protagonists, and tense psychic phenomena
Movie Details
- Director
- Brian De Palma
- Release Date
- 1978-03-10
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 (424)
Cast
- Kirk Douglas
- Amy Irving
- John Cassavetes
- Carrie Snodgress
- Charles Durning
- Andrew Stevens
- Fiona Lewis
- Carol Eve Rossen
- William Finley
- Melody Thomas Scott
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Fury about?
- A desperate father battles a covert agency exploiting psychic children in Brian De Palma’s stylish, violent supernatural thriller.
- What is The Fury like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Fury as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is The Fury violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in The Fury as graphic.
- What did critics think of The Fury?
- Critics broadly found the film fast-paced, stylish, energetically acted, and effective in its spectacular set pieces, while also faulting its incoherent and thin story.
- Which films are like The Fury?
- Films with a similar feel include Carrie, Scanners, The Dead Zone, and The Medusa Touch.
- How long is The Fury?
- The Fury runs 118 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Fury?
- In United States, The Fury streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads.
