故事设定在20世纪90年代末的越南西南部乡村,讲述了年轻女子Lan(Phương Thanh饰)在父亲去世后,前往一位名叫Danh(Mạc Văn Khoa饰)的鳏夫家中担任女佣。她很快发现这座房子隐藏着可怕的秘密:神秘的死亡事件接连发生,村庄中流传着关于“守财灵”的传说——一种通过黑暗仪式召唤的灵体,用于守护财产,但会对陌生人造成致命威胁。Lan与一位名叫Sơn(Quốc Trường饰)的恐怖小说作家联手,试图揭开这些离奇事件背后的真相。
Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is a family man, living in California, who can't seem to get by financially. He meets up with a small-time, but charismatic, hood Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges). Soon, Slocum convinces Tyler to participate in gas station robberies to get by. Later, they kidnap a wealthy man in hopes of getting a huge ransom. Things go wrong when the man is murdered by Slocum then thrown in a lake. Tyler reaches his limit emotionally, and he begins drinking heavily. He meets a lonely woman and confesses the crime while drunk. The woman flees and goes to the police. When the two kidnappers are arrested, a local journalist (Richard Carlson) writes a series of hate-filled articles about the two prisoners which eventually lead to a brutal lynching. The despair of the lower middle-class A family man ashamed of being unemployed allows himself to be convinced by a gangster to take part in a kidnapping. The police arrests them both and the anger of the small town’s population is unforgiving. THE SOUND OF FURY is a dark crime movie that builds up to an apocalyptic storm, but never loses sight of social realities, thus telling a lot about the daily despair of the working-class. A masterpiece, it was Cy Endfield’s last film before he felt compelled to move to Britain.