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Race with the Devil

"If you're going to race with the devil, you've got to be as fast as Hell!"

Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.

Top Cast

  • Peter Fonda

    Peter Fonda

    Roger

  • Warren Oates

    Warren Oates

    Frank

  • Loretta Swit

    Loretta Swit

    Alice

  • Lara Parker

    Lara Parker

    Kelly

  • R.G. Armstrong

    R.G. Armstrong

    Sheriff Taylor

  • Clay Tanner

    Clay Tanner

    Delbert

  • Carol Blodgett

    Carol Blodgett

    Ethel Henderson

  • Phil Hoover

    Phil Hoover

    Mechanic

  • Ricci Ware

    Ricci Ware

    Ricci Ware

Overview

Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.

Rating

6.4 / 10
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1 Reviews

  • John Chard
    John Chard
    8 Nov 16, 2013

    Get your motors running, get out on the highway. Because Old Nick is coming to get yah! Race with the Devil is directed by Jack Starrett and written by Wes Bishop and Lee Frost. It stars Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker and R.G. Armstrong. A Panavision/ DeLuxe Colour production, music is by Leonard Rosenman and cinematography by Robert Jessop. Two vacationing couples have to flee for their lives when they witness a ritualistic slaying by occultists. Great fun. A raging "B" movie for the 70s drive-in crowd that tapped into the decades new found taste for the occult and highway speeding. Film is cloaked with a paranoia vibe as our two frantic couples desperately try to stay out of the clutches of Satanists. Life and death confrontations come and go, and as they are never sure who is in league with the hooded blood drinkers, they have to assume that they alone must fight the good fight. It all builds to a crescendo of exciting vehicle carnage, which in turn leads to the final denouement, which quite frankly is frustratingly brilliant. Oates and Fonda entertain with brisk and airy performances, though Swit and Parker are really only directed to be screaming banshees waiting to be saved by their burly men. Best served with lashings of Bourbon and Coke, and not designed to be scrutinised for moral or ethical worth, just enjoy the ride and try and stay one step ahead of Old Nick. 8/10

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