Peter Canavese
2013-03-25 00:52:00 UTC
"What was Brian De Palma thinking?!" is a question that has been asked many times by movie fans over the years—so often, in fact, that one might speculate the answer is "This'll make 'em ask, 'What was Brian De Palma thinking?' alright!" Which brings us to The Fury, De Palma's gleefully strange follow up to Carrie. Is it camp? Is it just bad? Or is it truly great cinema?
Critic and De Palma devotee Pauline Kael infamously defended The Fury, saying of its climax, "One can imagine Welles, Peckinpah, Scorsese, and Spielberg still stunned, bowing to the ground, choking with laughter."
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"Original Theatrical Trailer" (3:01, SD)
The Isolated Score by John Williams comes in DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0.
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