“Don’t look at the eyes, Rex… DON’T LOOK AT THE EYES!”
But of course, nobody in this movie listens.
Roy Bjellquist and I will continue our month-long celebration of Halloween with a discussion of my favorite Christopher Lee film, “The Devil Rides Out” (released in the U.S. in 1968 as “The Devil’s Bride”).
Lee gets to play the hero for a change, aristocrat and occultist Nicholas, Duc de Richlieu, who alone possesses the arcane knowledge to do battle against a web of Satanists. Richlieu is the hero of no less than ELEVEN novels by Dennis Wheatley – of which only THREE have supernatural themes. WTF? Elsewhere, he’s frittering away his time solving mysteries, battling Spanish anarchists, rescuing relatives from Soviet prison, fighting Nazis, or otherwise engaged in colorful globetrotting.
But perhaps that’s all just as well. Having read “The Devil Rides Out,” I can tell you it’s nothing to write home about. Thankfully the movie is another story, surely one of Hammer’s best!
We’ve already made our sacrifice to the Goat of Mendes, so hopefully we’ll be spared the connectivity issues we suffered on Friday night.
I hope you’ll join us, with your comments and insights, on the next Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner, to be live-streamed on Facebook this Sunday night at 7:00 EDT!
https://www.facebook.com/roystiedyescificorner/
Since the movie itself doesn’t appear to be available for streaming through official channels in the U.S., here are a couple of links to Dailymotion, where it’s been posted in two parts.
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