Wednesday, 26 July 2006

Race with the Devil (1975)

Not exactly a great movie, but certainly an interesting and watchable cult curiosity.  Two couples, Warren Oates and Loretta Swit plus Peter Fonda and Lara Parker (who she?) go off on holiday in their luxury motorhome.  On the first night the men observe a presumably satanic cult ritual and murder, and the foursome spend the rest of the film trying to get someone to believe them and to escape from the murderous weirdos pursuing them.  Their dog is slaughtered, snakes are left in their cupboards, and numerous vehicles are trying to drive them off the road.  At times it seems that the entire population of Texas is out to get them, despite their disposing of various pursuers, and by the end we know for certain that not only IS the whole population after them indeed, but that there can never be an escape.   Not really ideal viewing if you like happy endings. 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hee! I'll be giving that one a miss. I'm terrible with films that aren't pure fluff!