Race With the Devil

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Race With the Devil

PG

1975

1h 28m

Horror

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Roger (Peter Fonda), his friend Frank (Warren Oates), and their wives (Lara Parker, Loretta Swit) are heading from San Antonio to the wilderness of rural Texas for some off-road motocross. What they find instead is a Satanic cult sacrifice, and they are unfortunate enough to be caught observing the ritual. Naturally, this doesn't sit too well with the cult members. Now Roger and Frank are on the run from what is apparently a very sizable Texan Satanist community.

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Keith Phipps

AV Club

Race With The Devil has problems getting over the flat, TV-style direction by Cleopatra Jones director Jack Starrett, but it gets by on engaging drive-in goofiness, even if it's tough to swallow the idea that mid-'70s Texas swarmed with Satanists.

Rated: B+

Sep 28, 2018

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Andrew Nickolds

Time Out

A wittily efficient quickie, the film is a winner all the way - a surprise, since Starrett's career thus far had been the movie director's equivalent of a criminal record.

Feb 9, 2006

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Jerry Renshaw

Austin Chronicle

This is some dumb, thoroughly predictable, drive-in flotsam, but between the cast and the nonstop action, it's fun nonetheless.

Oct 1, 2003

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

…scuzzy, entertainingly route-one little B-Movie…

Rated: 3/5

Jan 23, 2024

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Ruth Batchelor

Los Angeles Free Press

All the wives are good for is crying and screaming and the husbands spend half their time comforting their wives, whose only brave deed is to go to a library and steal a book about witches.

Nov 26, 2019

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R.L. Shaffer

IGN Movies

While Race with the Devil is a bit slower, it's a haunting, unforgettable experience.

Sep 28, 2018

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Andrew W

Ignore any negative comments on this film - it’s one of the best-ever horror/action/thrillers. All the characters’ weaknesses and ignorance mesh perfectly with the implicit overview of a world and system ruled and organised by evil intent and in the face of which we find ourselves poorly informed and all-but helpless. In 2024, it’s all proving to be true! That’s proper horror!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/31/24

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Liam D

An mixture of action movie and 70s satanic panic horror, it’s an underrated Thriller that is highly entertaining and shocking at the same time

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/10/24

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Piper W

Pure 70's fun flick. As a fan of TV's Dark Shadows, I originally watched this for Lara Parker, who played Angelique the witch on the show. This movie is screaming for a remake. Imagine how they can make that sacrificial coven out in the middle of nowhere look today!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/25/23

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craig p

I like this movie for the scenery alone but it's more than that if you like a conspiracy type story that appears everyone is involved in but you don't know for sure.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/10/23

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StephenPaul C

The scariest 01 hour: and 28 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/13/23

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Jason S

I'm always loves this movie. I think Fonda and Oates work well together. The tension rolls along nicely until the chilling climax.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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Roger Marsh

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Alice Stewart

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Kelly Marsh

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Synopsis

Roger (Peter Fonda), his friend Frank (Warren Oates), and their wives (Lara Parker, Loretta Swit) are heading from San Antonio to the wilderness of rural Texas for some off-road motocross. What they find instead is a Satanic cult sacrifice, and they are unfortunate enough to be caught observing the ritual. Naturally, this doesn't sit too well with the cult members. Now Roger and Frank are on the run from what is apparently a very sizable Texan Satanist community.

Director: Jack Starrett
Producer: Wes Bishop
Production Co: 20th Century Fox
Rating: PG
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 24, 2013
Runtime: 1h 28m

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