Plot Keywords: Giant Spider / Based On Novel / Blood / Car Chase / Sacrifice / Satanism
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
directed by Terence Fisher
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
No doubt a coincidence that this find met my mailbox in precise conjunction with the satanic calendar it re-invigorates with a timely spell of hedonistic absurdity. The Devil Rides Out is not quite graceful, and a far stretch from racially sensitive, but no Hammer film that I’ve seen comes close for its atmosphere like fog in an oddly cold alleyway. If special effects as bad as these can’t sink it, you have to sleep spooked or not sleep at all.
directed by Terence Fisher
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from Netflix
No doubt a coincidence that this find met my mailbox in precise conjunction with the satanic calendar it re-invigorates with a timely spell of hedonistic absurdity. The Devil Rides Out is not quite graceful, and a far stretch from racially sensitive, but no Hammer film that I’ve seen comes close for its atmosphere like fog in an oddly cold alleyway. If special effects as bad as these can’t sink it, you have to sleep spooked or not sleep at all.
posted by NPK at 8:00 AM
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