![]() ![]() ![]() The Devil Rides Out harks back to a time when satanic forces could be defeated by a good sock on the jaw, daylight and the odd silver cross. Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby was the same year, and set the marker for really disturbing films. However, Hammer Horror had its place, and The Devil Rides Out was at the point where the horror genre was just about to change. I never thought Hammer Horror held a candle to the great Universal black & white Frankenstein and Dracula films of the 1930s. It made a change not to see protruding eye teeth dripping with blood. This one was different as Christopher Lee was playing a goodie. ![]() You went to see them in large groups and laughed about them. There was a cultish kitsch thing about Hammer horror films of the Sixties. Terrifying looking down the steps from the top, and far more frightening than the film itself. It had the steepest rake of any cinema or theatre I’ve ever been in. I can recollect the cinema in Hull where I saw it in 1968. Russell Waters – Malin, the Eatons’ servant Christopher Lee- Nicholas, Duc de Richleau ![]()
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