Horrorthon: The Devil Rides Out October 30, 2006

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062885

Dennis Wheatley’s rambling novel is intelligently adapted by screenwriter Richard Matheson and directed with considerable skill by Hammer’s best house stylist, Terence Fisher. Set in the mid-1920s, The Devil Rides Out is a classic tale of good versus evil and follows the attempts of the aristocratic Duc de Richeleau (Christopher Lee) to rescue a young friend who has fallen in with a group of Satanists led by a charismatic figure simply known as Mocata (Charles Gray). The Duc ends up fighting for nothing less than his friend’s soul when he encounters the Devil himself during a secret initiation ceremony. Christopher Lee has never been better than as the grim opponent of Satanism, while director Fisher pushes the material beyond melodrama to encompass a full-scale allegorical vision.

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