be seen in some trailers and promotional material. The "throbbing vein" effect on the actors forehead was originally in the shooting script for Carrie, but was cut due to time and budgetary constraints. Dennis Franz makes his film debut as Bob Eggleston, a cop driving a car that Peter hijacks, while Daryl Hannah and Laura Innes make their film debuts as Pam and Jody, students at the school that Gillian attends. Jim Belushi appears as an uncredited background extra. Film director Mark Romanek worked on the film as a production assistant, which was his first job in the film industry. Reception Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and called it "a stylish entertainment, fast-paced, and acted with great energy. I'm not quite sure it makes a lot of sense, but that's the sort of criticism you only make after it's over. During the movie, too much else is happening". Arthur D. Murphy of Variety stated that "the film plays very well to an undemanding escapist audience", but "those who have to write about the film are confronted with a gaping hole in the script: Apart from a few throwaway references to government agencies and psychic phenomena, there is never, anywhere, a coherent exposition of what all the running and jumping is about. The more one analyzes the picture, the less substantive its story becomes. Better not to think too much about this one". Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote: "'The Fury' is bigger than Carrie, more elaborate, much more expensive and far sillier ... It's also, in fits and starts, the kind of mindless fun that only a horror movie that so seriously pretends to be about the mind can be. Mr. De Palma seems to have been less interested in the overall movie than in pulling off a couple of spectacular set-pieces, which he does". Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film one-and-a-half stars out of four and described it as "one of those thrillers where you sit around and wait for the big scenes. And the key word in that sentence is 'wait' because there is little in The Fury to hold your attention in between its three big scenes of extreme violence. That's because the film develops only one character. Its story also makes little sense, and for a movie ostensibly about psychic powers, The