The Fury
- IMDb link: 0077588
- IMDb rating: 6.3 (18,962 votes) Search
- Genres: Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller
- Director: Brian De Palma, Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes
- Cast: Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning and others
- Release date: 10 Mar 1978
- Release year: 1978
- Runtime: 118 minutes
- Country: United States, Israel
- Keywords: mind reading, opening action scene, secret government organization, glowing eyes, loss of son, rescue attempt, paranormal phenomenon, presumed dead, psychometry, psychic
Plot:
The ex-government agent Peter Sandza and his psychic son Robin live for a while in Israel, when they receive a visit from Peter's former co-worker Ben Childress. Ben stages a terrorist attack to cover up kidnapping Robin, supposedly because the boy needs "protection". In Chicago, the high-school girl Gillian Bellaver realizes that she has emerging psychic powers, including telekinesis and extra-sensory perception. She is unable to control these powers, so she see volunteers as a test subject for a live-in research facility studying psychic powers in adolescents. Peter arrives in Chicago and finds out about Gillian's powers. He secretly contacts her to inform her that the facility's director is not as benevolent as he seems. The director is cooperating with PSI, a covert agency that kidnaps and weaponizes psychic children. n uses her powers to assist Peter in tracking Robin down. Unfortunately, Robin has become mentally unstable and violent He views Gillian as his potential replacement in the PSI, and he does not want to be replaced. He starts using his powers in lethal ways.
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