Overview: Take an all-star cast – including William Shatner, Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Keenan Wynn, Tom Skerritt, Ida Lupino and even John Travolta in his movie debut – at their most hellishly over-the-top. Add one of the most visually inventive filmmakers of the era – director Robert Fuest, of THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES and THE FINAL PROGRAMME fame – and thrust them into “one of the strangest horror movies of all time” (Den of Geek), featuring Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey as Technical Advisor.

Watch in infernal awe as it all hurtles towards the most eye-popping, flesh-melting finale in drive-in/grindhouse history. Now experience “the BEN-HUR of ‘70s Satan flicks” (Ravenous Monster) like never before, scanned in 4K from the original camera negative for the first time ever and oozing with over 4 hours of Special Features – including a new audio commentary – approved by Lucifer himself!

4K Blu-ray Review: In this memorably silly and yet incredibly entertaining rural horror flick, a family named the Preston’s must do battle with a Satan-worshipping villain, Jonathan Corbis (Ernest Borgnine). Mark Preston (William Shatner) and his brother Tom (Tom Skerritt) are among those with the balls to face this minion of the Devil. What Corbis really wants is to lay his infernal hands on a very important book.

Robert Fuest (The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Final Programme) directs this insane, sometimes uproarious feature. The script, credited to Gabe Essoe, James Ashton, and Gerald Hopman, is pure nonsense. One truly must approach this after checking their brain at the door. The film has a very effective pace, as it hits the ground running and starts unleashing its horrors within the first few minutes.

There is some excellent atmosphere to enjoy, and much striking desert imagery photographed within its aspect ratio. The overcast skies in early scenes merely add to the mood. Al De Lory composed the suitable music score; Alex Phillips Jr. did the lighting. The action takes place in some very desolate environments.

The acting is deliciously hammy from Borgnine and Shatner. Borgnine in particular has rarely been as much fun as he is here, especially when he’s covered in goat’s head makeup for much of the last half hour! The slumming big name cast also includes a typically amusing Keenan Wynn as a sheriff, Ida Lupino as the Preston matriarch, and Eddie Albert as Dr. Samuel Richards.

Joan Prather plays Skerritts’ wife, Claudio Brook appears in the stylish flashback sequence as a crusading priest, Lisa Todd is cast as a temptress, and that’s none other than John Travolta making his film debut as one of Corbis’s many disciples - whose dialogue basically consists of the word Blasphemer!

The extremely protracted ending is the unqualified highlight. Most of the cast melts when the title element is unleashed. Apparently in this story selling your soul to the Devil turns your body into wax. Who knew? In closing, The Devil’s Rain is trashy, and stupid, but for certain tastes, a heck of a lot of fun! [H.S.]

Special Features:
Disc 1: 4K UHD (Film + Special Features)
Audio Commentary With Director Robert Fuest
Audio Commentary With Film Historian Stephen R. Bissette
Theatrical Trailer

Disc 2: Blu-ray (Film + Special Features)
Audio Commentary With Director Robert Fuest
Audio Commentary With Film Historian Stephen R. Bissette
Confessions Of Tom – Interview With Actor Tom Skerritt
The Devil’s Makeup – Interview With Special FX Artist Tom Burman
Archival 1975 Interview With Actor William Shatner
First Stop Durango – Interview With Script Supervisor Ana Maria Quintana
Consulting With The Devil – A Conversation With The High Priest And High Priestess Of The Church Of Satan
Hail Satan! – Interview With Anton LaVey Biographer Blanche Barton
Filmmaker/Horror Collector Daniel Roebuck On THE DEVIL’S RAIN
Ana Maria Quintana’s On Set Polaroid Gallery, Accompanied By Radio Spots
Poster/Still Gallery
Theatrical Trailer
TV Spots

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