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VHS : The Devil Rides Out [1968]

starring: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower
directed by: Terence Fisher


Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 5026357209120 Format: PAL Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: May 17, 1999 Running Time: 91 minutes Sales Rank: 9525 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1968
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Christopher Lee, long Hammer Studios' house villain, takes a rare heroic turn as scholar and occultist Duc de Richleau, the kind of role that Peter Cushing had made his métier. Lee plays Richleau with a dark elegance and intensity-he is a commanding figure with a trim goatee who discovers that the son of a war buddy has joined a satanic cult lorded over by the quietly malevolent Mocata (Charles Gray, best known as the narrator in The Rocky Horror Picture Show). Director Terence Fisher, working from a literate script by genre scribe Richard Matheson, creates a strikingly handsome period piece (set in 1920s rural England) dripping in dread as Richleau and Mocata battle for the souls of two young lovers on both physical and spiritual planes. The action scenes are well handled and the towering Lee cuts quite a figure leaping through hoards of robed devil worshippers to save a sacrificial victim, but the film peaks in an eerie supernatural battle in which Richleau and his sceptical party confronts Mocata's demons while protected in a giant pentagram. The effects are coarse and dated by today's standards, but the gorgeous period detail, vivid colour and unsettling imagery create a sinister ambience, and Fisher's mix of psychodrama and swashbuckling action makes for an engrossing thriller, a life-and-death struggle between two masters of the forces of light and darkness. --Sean Axmaker

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Atmospheric morality tale transcends lousy SFX
Still a class act after all these years, and absolutely ripe for a sympathetic remake. Tim Burton maybe?

Its a shame that more of Wheatley's work isn't filmed. Its now considered bombastic and politically incorrect by self-appointed style-arbitrators and their baah-ing followers. But Wheatley knew his occultism, having hung out with illuminaries such as Aleister Crowley, Montague Summers and Rollo Amad. He excelled at telling rousing tales in which drama and pace are never sacrificed to ... Read More

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- Oozes With Atmosphere
Probably the best adaption of a Denis Wheatley novel ever. Christopher Lee plays the Duc de Richlieu who desperatly tries to help his friend (Patrick Mower) against dark forces led by the splendid Charles Grey who portrays the evil Mocata. The film oozes atmosphere throughout, aided and abetted by a wonderful music score. The scene in the house with the friends trapped inside a pentacle against the forces of darkness is the highlight of the film. By a co-incidence, this film marked the decline of Hammer ... Read More

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- A Fine Adaption of a Dennis Wheatley Classic
Hammer scored triumphs with this fine adaption of what was probably Dennis Wheatley's finest novel of Satanism and Black Magic. Despite budget limitations and dodgy special effects, the Hammer production team generated an atmospheric version highlighted by a wonderful music score. Of course, the actors themselves did themselves proud. Christopher Lee, ably supported by Patrick Mower and Paul Eddington, performed their parts as if it had been especially written for them. Charles Gray who was famous for providing ... Read More

Rating:

- Vintage Horror
An excellent adaptation from the Dennis Wheatley novel of the same name. Both Christopher Lee and Charles Gray are excellent as the worldly wise Duc de Richleau and the Satanic Mr Mocata. The film is well paced as they battle it out for the powers of Light and Darkness with the Duc's friends very souls at stake.

Rating:

- A devil of a film...
To be short, this is quite simply one of the most chilling, eerie and terror-filled occult films of all time. Yeah, the effects are dated and occasionally mockable to modern day standards, but watch this on your own, in the dark and late a night and feel the paranoia and tension build up. A truely dazzling book adaptation. The observatory scene is very scarey indeed.

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