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Race With the Devil | 
| Director: Jack Starrett
Actors: Jack Starrett, R.g. Armstrong, James Harrell, Phil Hoover, Warren Oates
Studio: Anchor Bay
Category: DVD
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 4482
Format: Ntsc, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D12984D
UPC: 013131298499
EAN: 0013131298499
ASIN: B0007WQGRC
Theatrical Release Date: June 1975
Release Date: June 28, 2005
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An alternate title for this movie could easily be IRV to Hell/I. Two middle-class couples take their spankin'-new motor home on a trip to Colorado. While camping out in Texas, the men see something they shouldn't--a human sacrifice by Satanists who somehow manage not to notice their Safeway- sized vehicle until the last minute. The tourists flee from the devil worshippers, getting the monstrous RV hung up in a stream, and so goes the rest of the movie. The local sheriff is in league with the devil, and every town they come to is full of pesky Satanists. The vacationers are nothing if not resourceful, though; when a pair of determined Beelzebubbers cling to the vehicle like barnacles, Peter Fonda pokes at them with an aluminum vacuum-cleaner wand until they give up and fall off! Oddly, halfway through the film, it turns from a fairly routine (if suspenseful) horror movie to a Ron Howard-style car-chase film, with a half-dozen vehicles pursuing the motor home. The vacationers continue to abuse the RV until large chunks of it begin to fall off, fending off their enemies with a shotgun until the nasty surprise ending. With a cast that includes Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, and Lara Parker, it's hard to go wrong (though the women's roles consist of screaming ineffectually, making coffee, and cleaning the earth-toned Winnebago). Yep, this Central Texas-lensed drive-in feature supplies thrills, car wrecks, devil worshippers, and unintended laughs by the bushel... what else can you ask for? I--Jerry Renshaw/I
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 Undisclosed Censorship July 7, 2005
David Stuckey (Eastern Ontario)
This is a movie I always enjoyed, awkwardly done as it was. brI eagerly awaited the DVD release. However, Anchor Bay has done a rather poor job by releasing this with at least one insidious but obvious bit of censorship which I don't appreciate. I don't watch films for nude content, but I strongly object to receiving one that has been altered to cater to current political interest.brWhat else was altered in this release?
 RACE WITH THE DEVIL July 15, 2004
WHERE IS THE DVD???? THIS MOVIE IS SUCH A CLASSIC.CREEPY AND SCARY ALIKE.SO WORTH SEEING!!
 One of the great drive-in classics of all time.... May 4, 2004
Chris K. Wilson (Dallas, TX United States)
The 1975 film Race With the Devil begins innocently enough. Two couples on vacation in an RV decide to take a turn on a dirt road to spend the night away from the bustle. They park their rocking vehicle out in the wilds of south central Texas. They inspect the beauty of the desolate land, have a candle-lit dinner and a glass of wine, and toast the first night of a needed vacation. The sun sets and a full moon rises. But a funny thing happens.pAcross the river they hear an eerie howl and suddenly, a mysterious bonfire roars to life. They grab a pair of binoculars and notice a group of people in black robes dancing around this huge fire. There's weird chanting, a man in a mask with a sword, and nude women at his feet. The dancing becomes more intense, and a woman is stabbed to death in an apparent sacrifice. At that moment, the wife of one of the stunned men turns on the RV light and screams at her husband to come inside. The Satanic cult realizes they are not alone, and furiously charge across the river. Thus begins one long and very creepy chase across the back roads of a Texas landscape.pWe've been here before, whether it be with a cannibalistic family in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Georgia hillbillies in Deliverance. The setup is usually the same - a group of innocents, semi-lost, encountering horrid miscreants without a shred of help anywhere in sight. I don't think Race With the Devil is as good as either of the two previous films mentioned, but I will say in all honesty this flick scared me as a child. pRace With the Devil taps a primal fear we have of being stranded in unknown lands pursued by people with murderous intentions. The inspirations for this little 1975 horror opus are many, as Satan was quite the villain back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Where to begin? Perhaps Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby, one of the most chilling films ever made. And then you have The Exorcist, The Devil's Rain and such TV flicks as Crowhaven Farm. Which brings us to Race With the Devil, where you have robed Lucifer hippies clawing at an agonizingly slow RV rolling for the nearest stretch of cement. Peter Fonda and Warren Oates do their best to fight off this beer-bellied horde (I suppose with the exception of the occasional dancing, they get little exercise), using everything from vacuum cleaners to ski poles to hold off the possessed crew.pFor a kid growing up in the suburbs of Texas (that would be me), Satanic cults existed out there, and they were waiting in the dark. Out there is an uneducated wilderness, and it's scary. To this day, I have moments of fear when camping alone, remembering that cult from Race With the Devil. As our society grows each day into an urban setting with farming communities disappearing, what is rural becomes alien and evil. It's out there man! Who knows what shenanigans they're up to!pThe Texas-born Jack Starrett directed this little drive-in horror/action hybrid, and he really didn't create much else. A few episodes of Hill Street Blues, a couple of other B-movie excursions. He's probably best known as the tough cop with a billy club who drives Sylvester Stallone over the edge in First Blood. He sadly passed on in 1989. Starrett has a funny cameo in Race With the Devil as a nosy gas station attendant.pWarren Oates, the greatest character actor in motion picture history, stars as the unlucky sod who makes the fateful choice to camp in the Texas boonies. He was really too good to be starring in this fare, but he does deliver the best line when the sheriff mentions a local hippie cult that kills cats. With a straight face, Oates replies, Well, I guess they ran out of cats. By most accounts Oates tilted beers with film director Sam Peckinpah while they made such films as The Wild Bunch and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. A huge Warren Oates cult has grown since his death in 1983, and this film is as good as any learn the greatness of this brilliant actor.pIn Race With the Devil, Peter Fonda has a good time shaking martinis while firing shotguns at hillbilly Satanists. And you even have Hotlips Loretta Swit as a perplexed wife. She likes to scream a lot and wear colorful bathrobes.pI suppose we could obsess over the stupid decisions our protagonists make before Satan closes in on the RV. We could laugh at the dialog as they marvel over the newfangled microwave and color TV. We could even snicker as by the end of Race With the Devil, the trashed RV resembles Steve Martin's and John Candy's car in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. But our laughs are uneasy. When we travel to unknown lands, we are terrified of being preyed upon. In Race With the Devil, these country folks are out there man, creepy and evil. Part horror, car chase and action, this film is one of the greatest drive-in flicks ever made.
unsung cult classic April 9, 2004
poodlecitrus (Dixie)
I saw this film in the 70's. It made a lasting impression on me. The film includes the foxy witch from Dark Shadows. Hotlips from MASH. Peter Fonda from Easy Rider and Mr.Warren Oates. brThis film was made in an much inocent time way before the strange societies and strange uneasyness that is circulating now. Talkabout Tom Cruz's film Eyes Wide Shut this film prefigured that message. It just that unlike Cruz's movie that alerted folks that rich people belong to not too frienldly societies so too do regular folk inhabite fringelike clubs too. This classic never got the attention it deserved,perhapes it was too close to real life. The ending is real to life too. I mean with all the innocent children being kidnapped and other freaky things that our cablenews is alerting us to be very wary. Imagine how back in innocent times before Ted Bundy and other kind with strange appetites. How it scary was. I mean Earthday was just invented and peace, love, and joy were still believed in. Heck folks in Florida did noteven lock their doors to their houses yet. This film was way before its time. I pesonnally can not see a vacationing RV without thinking of what happened in the film. People disappear while vacation in cars or RVs more than is realize. The film is not graphic or gory. It does not have to be to get the message across. The panic in the film comes across as pure choas. The choas that one feels in the dark no place to turn and no one to turn to for help. That is what so scary. It so like we are living today with the aftermath of the Twin Towers, never knowing what is gonna happen next. You just want everything to return to normal.brIts like impending doom. This film is exactly what Americans feel like today. We are in that RV and bad things are happening man!
An alternate ending?? March 25, 2004
Without giving away the film's real ending, how about this for an alternate ending: The two couples and their much battered RV finally get safely to Amarillo where they report everything that has happened to them to the big city police. After going through all the usual red tape, they report their luxury RV to the insurance company as a potential write off due to vandalism. They wait around Amarillo a few days until an adjuster shows up to survey the damage and he surprisingly issues them a check right on the spot. Stunned by their luck, they promptly go out and buy a new, bigger and better RV. Having experienced no further unusual occurences and still determined to continue on to Aspen and the much-anticipated skiing, they once again hit the road and head north. After their harrowing experiences and just as precautionary measures, they stop along the way to purchase and have installed a state-of-the-art CB radio system and antenna in the new RV (this is the mid-1970's, remember!!), they buy handguns for all four of them, two new riot-type shotguns and plenty of ammunition and strive to seek out the most highly-rated public campgrounds and experience nothing unusual along the way or at any of the campgrounds. They are finally able to relax, increasingly convinced that the nightmare is really over. They at last arrive in Aspen, where they choose the top-rated campground in the area. They are surprised at finding it not very busy, especially considering it is the middle of the peak skiing season. They are all so busy admiring the lovely winter, mountain scenery that they fail to notice the strange smiles and stares from everyone as they drive into the campground.............
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