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Summary: Satanic fun
Review: Lots of fun, although sometimes confusing. The book explains it better. Notable for having both the High Priest and High Priestess of the Church of Satan - Anton and Diane LaVey, in bit parts. Their inclusion gives a true Satanic presence to this movie - they wrote that humor is important to Satanists. Anton was technical advisor, and you can see many of his influences, such as the trapezoid designs and the Satanic chants. Some of the Satanic designs used are beautiful and interesting. It was filmed in Durango, Mexico. The filming has interesting stories to it, such as Anton LaVey trying to teach the Latin chants to extras who did not speak English. As has been told elsewhere, Shatner did nothing to make friends with the cast, and one suspects they symbolically enjoyed his character's treatment in the film. Anyone who likes good old sci fi and horror or camp, should love this film.
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Summary: Satanic fun
Review: Lots of fun, although sometimes confusing. The book explains it better. Notable for having both the High Priest and High Priestess of the Church of Satan - Anton and Diane LaVey, in bit parts. Their inclusion gives a true Satanic presence to this movie - they wrote that humor is important to Satanists. Anton was technical advisor, and you can see many of his influences, such as the trapezoid designs and the Satanic chants. Some of the Satanic designs used are beautiful and interesting. It was filmed in Durango, Mexico. The filming has interesting stories to it, such as Anton LaVey trying to teach the Latin chants to extras who did not speak English. As has been told elsewhere, Shatner did nothing to make friends with the cast, and one suspects they symbolically enjoyed his character's treatment in the film. Anyone who likes good old sci fi and horror or camp, should love this film.
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Summary: A rare glimpse into authentic satanic horror.
Review: "The Devil's Rain" is a flawed, but worthy attempt to combine genuine satanic worship with dramatic horror. Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan and author of 1969's "The Satanic Bible" served as technical advisor on this film; it contains numerous satanic ceremonies, which makes this movie stand apart from standard satanic-cult flick nonsense. For those who are interested in trivium, Anton Szandor LaVey died in 1997 at the age of 67.
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Summary: Nice work
Review: As cheaply as this film was made I was suprised at the talent that was in it. It's about a man named Corbis who is the leader of a bunch of devil worshipers out west, trying to get back a sacred book that the Preston family took from his ancestors centurys ago. The book contains the names of all who gave their souls to the Devil, without the book they cannot enter Hell. This is a great film, and I was very suprised to find out William Shatner could in fact act, I mean he was good in Star Trek, but lets face it the man seems to not be able to do anything else, but he did a fine job here. Also a very strange role for Ernest Borgnine as the leader of the devil worshipers. Also look for John Travolta in his first film role (allthough his eyes are covered up with make-up) and he has not one line in the whole film. Well worth seeing.
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Summary: Stinks
Review: Despite having a star-studded cast and a cameo by Anton and Dianne LaVey, this movie is one of the worst that I have ever seen. If you want to hear the Enochian Calls recited or see Bill Shatner in one of the worst roles of his life, this might be for you, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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Summary: weird and disturbing
Review: During the opening credits,a series of paintings depicting "life in hell" are shown as the sound of shrill screams and a dark melody play in unison. As I read on I saw the name of that satanic priest,Anton Lavey.(Is he still alive?) He was somehow connected to this film, which for some would make it worth seeing, from a curiosity standpoint. If you liked John Carpenter's Vampires you may like this. It has similar overtones. There are some good chase scenes, and alot of suspense. Cool devil makeup. By the way ,the producers of this film also made THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and DEEP THROAT (FYI).
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Summary: We Are The Borgnine; You Will Be Assimilated
Review: From Bob Fuest, the man who gave us Dr. Phibes, comes this campy funfest. A real treat for people like me, who crave the sight of Eddie Albert flexing his heroism. I mean, it's Oliver Douglas versus Satan. Plus, there's the Shat-man and Ida Lupino. The film is one of those engaging, low-budget, Seventies classics. Remember, the era when independent film meant something other than boring slackers griping about their love lives? This will take you back to a time when Sundance was only the name of a cowboy, and Austin was only significant as the last name of The Six Million Dollar Man. Also, sneak a peek at Anton LaVey (founder of the Church of Satan) as the High Priest. Now THIS is a movie!
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Summary: The Devil's Rain puts the "Cult" in cult classic.
Review: God, I remember seeing this movie as a kid. The next time I saw it was about a year ago curtesy of Joe Bob Briggs. I had forgotten what a great movie this was. Great in the cult sense that is."The Devil's Rain" has a good, if somewhat trite, story. But it's a tried and true formula so how can you go wrong with that? The performances aren't all that bad given the motley crew of actors they've assembled here. Even Bill Shatner adds a splendid understated performance, not often giving vent to bouts of dramatics. And what can you say about Ernest Borgnine as the Devil's disciple? Priceless! The only actor I didn't get was John Travolta. He gets billed in the credits but he's not even a really a character. Indeed, you don't even see him in the film unless you're specifically looking for him. All this from the guy who brought us the classic "The Abominable Dr. Phibes". Though "Devil's Rain" doesn't quite live up to the standards of the aforementioned flick it's still a decent movie and is genuinely entertaining. You'll even notice Anton LaVey in the credits under technical advisor. Hard to imagine,though, since he criticised "The Exorcist" that he'd want to jump on board for this. It's good to see that such a great,yet, virtually forgotten film can see new life on DVD.
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Summary: Not even Kirk, Airwolf, Barbarino, Green Acres can save it!
Review: Having seen this movie panned over and over through the years I still couldn't believe it. I thought they must be biased because of the subject matter which might not appeal to many, and just had to see for myself. Well, it turns out they were right after all. The cast makes this one look more like a Made-For-TV movie that somehow mistakenly made it to the big screen: William Shatner post-"Star Trek", Ernest Borgnine before "Airwolf", John Travolta in a tiny non-speaking part somewhere around the time he broke into fame as Vinnie Barbarino on "Welcome Back Kotter", Eddie Albert post-"Green Acres", and Tom Skerrit who guest-starred on many, many TV series, most notably including "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" (at right about this time) -- where he ironically played a Satan-worshipping politician. Shatner's part in this movie is actually suprisingly small. Borgnine's acting is really bad, and overall the script never seems to really be getting anywhere. I found myself more bored than scared or entertained by this movie.
As for the DVD, the picture is widescreen and the colours are nice and bright, but the film is still quite dirty and scratched. This should have been fixed. If you're interested in movies with a Satanic theme, I'd recommend "The Omen" series, "The Sentinel" or even "End of Days" instead of this one. Unless you are really, really desperate, I'd say pass on this one.
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Summary: Atmospheric cult horror
Review: I actually enjoyed this movie, but I'm a fan of off-beat horror and I liked Fuest's Phibes movies. The character development is slim to none, the plot pretty simple, and the makeup nothing spectacular, but I liked the unusual structure and pacing and thought many of the cult scenes were creepy and atmospheric. The oddball way in which the story was told made what could have been another conventional drive-in movie rather unpredictable and a little unsettling. Not to say that it's a great movie, but I think that creatively it's above-par for the genre and that many reviewers don't give it enough credit.
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