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The Devil's Rain
DVD/APPROX. 86 MINS/1975/USA PG
DVD/APPROX. 86 MINS/1975/USA PG
It was a dark and stormy night, and Steve Preston hasn’t come home yet. Mama Preston (Ida Lupino) sends her son Mark (Da Shat Man!) out to
look for him when all of a sudden Steve turns up on the front porch of the house, albeit with no eyes. Steve tell his family to give a guy named
Corbis (Ernest Borgnine) what he wants, and then he promptly melts all over the place!
It turns out that Corbis is a satanic high priest who is trying to find a special book that he lost over 200 years ago. It is no coincidence that he is
causing trouble for the Preston family, as they have the book stashed away safely in the house, having had it been passed down from generation
to generation. The problem is Corbis needs the book to hold on to all the souls he has trapped in a giant water jug called The Devil’s Rain (which
works on sort of the same principle as the giant jar of Satan snot in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness).
Mark finds out that Corbis and his minions are hiding out in a deserted ghost town, complete with church, in the middle of the desert, and heads
out there to put an end to everything. However, Corbis challenges him to a dual of faiths, and Mark loses. Mark tries to run but the minions catch
him, and prepare him for the soul stealing ritual. Somehow though, before all this happened, Mark got word out to his brother Tom (Tom Skerritt)
and Mark turns up to watch the ritual, in which Corbis turns into the devil himself!
Mayhem ensures after Tom’s friend (and occult expert) Dr Richards shows up and finds out what’s going on, and more importantly how to stop it. I
won’t say anymore here except that the ending is completely absurd and fun at the same time, and at the time was completely original!
Released dead smack in the middle of the times in cinema when Satanic movies were selling tickets by the bucket load, this is yet another fine
example of Satanic action packed 70s cinema. While being nowhere near as serious as The Exorcist or The Omen, this film is a lot more fun to
watch than the pair combined and doesn't take an hour to get into the action, it's just opening credits then BOOM, straight into it!
Dark Sky Films have done another great job with this disc. Picture is fairly clean (although in one spot it looks like there is a thumb print on the
negative), and sound is restricted to 2.0 Mono track.
look for him when all of a sudden Steve turns up on the front porch of the house, albeit with no eyes. Steve tell his family to give a guy named
Corbis (Ernest Borgnine) what he wants, and then he promptly melts all over the place!
It turns out that Corbis is a satanic high priest who is trying to find a special book that he lost over 200 years ago. It is no coincidence that he is
causing trouble for the Preston family, as they have the book stashed away safely in the house, having had it been passed down from generation
to generation. The problem is Corbis needs the book to hold on to all the souls he has trapped in a giant water jug called The Devil’s Rain (which
works on sort of the same principle as the giant jar of Satan snot in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness).
Mark finds out that Corbis and his minions are hiding out in a deserted ghost town, complete with church, in the middle of the desert, and heads
out there to put an end to everything. However, Corbis challenges him to a dual of faiths, and Mark loses. Mark tries to run but the minions catch
him, and prepare him for the soul stealing ritual. Somehow though, before all this happened, Mark got word out to his brother Tom (Tom Skerritt)
and Mark turns up to watch the ritual, in which Corbis turns into the devil himself!
Mayhem ensures after Tom’s friend (and occult expert) Dr Richards shows up and finds out what’s going on, and more importantly how to stop it. I
won’t say anymore here except that the ending is completely absurd and fun at the same time, and at the time was completely original!
Released dead smack in the middle of the times in cinema when Satanic movies were selling tickets by the bucket load, this is yet another fine
example of Satanic action packed 70s cinema. While being nowhere near as serious as The Exorcist or The Omen, this film is a lot more fun to
watch than the pair combined and doesn't take an hour to get into the action, it's just opening credits then BOOM, straight into it!
Dark Sky Films have done another great job with this disc. Picture is fairly clean (although in one spot it looks like there is a thumb print on the
negative), and sound is restricted to 2.0 Mono track.
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