THE DEVIL'S RAIN

THE DEVIL'S RAIN

German Titles:
Nachts, wenn die Leichen schreien / Nachts, wenn die Zombies schreien / Devil's Rain - Verflucht in alle Ewigkeit / Fluch der Dämonen

USA, 1975
Director: Robert Fuest

3/10



 

"The Devil's Rain", the one movie that destroyed the incredibly promising career of Robert Fuest (if you've seen the fabulous "And Soon The Darkness", you know what I mean). Why? Well... because this schlocky satanist-rubbish simply sucks.

The story is quite stupid and makes not much sense. The script is horrible, REALLY horrible: it's tedious, boring, badly paced and whoever came up with the idea of throwing the viewer right into a nonsensically abstruse and completely confusing opening scene should burn in hell.

The cast is basically brilliant but sadly all performances are quite underwhelming: a dull William Shatner, a lame Tom Skerritt,  an incredibly terrible Ernest Borgnine and a silly-looking John Travolta in his very first role.

Most of the dialogue is just uninteresting gibberish, the special effects look poor, the soundtrack is forgettable and there's absolutely nothing creepy or suspenseful in here.

At least, the settings all look cool (e.g. the sinister church, the ghost town...), the camera work is pretty cool and the finale with all the melting villains and explosions is just terrific ("Evilspeak" comes to mind) - but apart from that, it's just a laughable and avoidable trashfest.

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