The next morning, Childress approaches Gillian and starts manipulating her to get her to connect with him. Robin lingers a bit before finally dying, and seems to make some form of psychic contact with Gillian he transfers his refined powers to her, implying that she will save herself from Childress and avenge his death. When Robin plunges to the ground, a distraught Peter flings himself after his son, thus killing himself. Robin is thrown out of the window and scratches Peter when he tries to save him from falling. Peter confronts his son, but Robin, a now-schizoid, furiously attacks him. Believing that PSI intends to kill him and replace him with another psychic, he finally snaps, telekinetically torturing and killing Susan. Though Robin's abilities have grown to unprecedented levels, he gradually becomes increasingly unstable from the psychological strain of his superiors' machinations, culminating in a mass murder inside Old Chicago, an indoor amusement park.Īs Peter and Gillian infiltrate the mansion, Robin senses her presence. Gillian uses her powers to assist Peter in tracking Robin down to a remote mansion in the countryside, where Childress and his handler Susan have spent the last several months grooming and experimenting on him. The rescue is successful, but Hester is killed in the process. Hester overhears Childress's conversation and informs Peter, who plans a rescue, hoping she can lead him to Robin. Knowing that she knows too much and that her powers are growing, Childress orders that Gillian be transported to PSI headquarters where Robin is being kept. Peter tells Gillian that Paragon's director is cooperating with PSI, a covert agency led by Childress that kidnaps psychic children to weaponize their powers for the American government, managing and controlling the psychics by brainwashing them and eliminating their families.Īs Gillian's psychic prowess grows, she begins experiencing visions of the Institute abusing Robin, who has unsuccessfully attempted escape, and eventually connects to him telepathically. After evading Childress's agents, Peter meets with his girlfriend Hester, a Paragon nurse, who tells him about Gillian. Meanwhile, Peter has tracked his son to Chicago. She volunteers to attend the Paragon Institute, a live-in research facility studying psychic powers in adolescents. The uncontrolled manifestations of these powers harm people who physically touch or provoke her. Months later in Chicago, high-school student Gillian Bellaver discovers her psychic powers, including telekinesis and extra-sensory perception, during an in-class demonstration. Peter narrowly survives, maiming Childress in the attempt and escaping while heavily injured, but is unable to protect Robin. Sandza plans to leave his old life and return to the United States with his son, but Childress objects and subsequently stages a terrorist attack to cover up kidnapping Robin for his “protection”. In Israel, ex- CIA agent Peter Sandza and his psychic son Robin meet Ben Childress, Peter's old agency colleague. Film critic Pauline Kael highly lauded the music, composed and conducted by John Williams, calling it "as apt and delicately varied a score as any horror movie has ever had". Produced by Frank Yablans and released by 20th Century Fox on March 10, 1978, the film was both critically and commercially successful, grossing $24 million from a $7.5 million budget. The screenplay by John Farris was based on his 1976 novel of the same name. The Fury is a 1978 American supernatural horror thriller film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Amy Irving, Carrie Snodgress, Charles Durning, and Andrew Stevens.
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