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Horror 85 min
Rotten Tomatoes31%Metacritic28IMDb
Absolutely the most incredible ending of any motion picture
A Satanist cult leader is burnt alive by the local church. He vows to come back to hunt down and enslave every descendant of his congregation, by the power of the book of blood contracts, in which they sold their souls to the devil.
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Unpretentious, resolved, plot-driven and bleak.
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A cast of talent that includes Shatner, Borgnine, Lupino, with Keenan Wynn, Tom Skerritt and Eddie Albert ought to make for a decent horror film to watch. Well, I'm sorry to have to rain on their parade but it's definitely not the case here - this is a shocker. The thread is based on an old Satanic cult leader who is burned at the stake by the local townsfolk. He vows to return and avenge himself on their descendants - and with the assistance of the "Book of Blood Contracts" returns decades later to do exactly that - and his special quirk is that he can quite literally melt them... It's a make-up artist's wet dream; every colour, shade and hue of wax, glue and latex crops up as he wreaks devastation before, thankfully, Albert "Dr. Richards" starts to formulate a strategy to defeat this reincarnated epitome of evil (Ernest Borgnine). The score is loud and intrusive and the dreadful script is matched only by the hammy over-acting; I shudder to think how much Bourbon must have been consumed in the Winnebago's during filming.... One to miss.
Read the whole review on TMDB_**The Satanic Rites of Ernest Borgnine**_ A group of goat-sucking buffoons have set up shop in a desolate ghost town in the Southwest wherein the leader (Borgnine) is hell-bent on getting a book of blood contracts from the Preston family, who live nearby. William Shatner and Tom Skerritt play the Preston brothers while Eddie Albert is on hand as a psychic researcher. "The Devil’s Rain" (1975) comes in the tradition of satanic-themed movies of the 60s and early 70s, such as “The Devil Rides Out” (1968), “The Brotherhood of Satan” (1971) and “Race with the Devil” (1975). The success of “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968) and “The Exorcist” (1973) naturally attracted filmmakers to the topic. Rob Zombie's "The Lords of Salem" (2012) is a worthy modern example of the genre. Unfortunately, “The Devil’s Rain” illustrates what can go wrong when the topic is handled without wise restraint. The cast, locations, colorful sets/props and special effects are fine, even great, but the cartoonish satanism is so over-the-top it's more amusing than scary, which isn’t helped by a painfully dull tale, bad storytelling, protagonists you don’t care about and too much filler (like melting faces at the end that goe
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