In Corsa con il Diavolo

Produzione: Wes Bishop (Producer) — Paul Maslansky (Executive Producer)

Sceneggiatura: Lee Frost (Screenplay)

Musica: Leonard Rosenman (Original Music Composer)

Fotografia: Robert C. Jessup (Director of Photography)

Due coppie di sposi, partite per un viaggio sulla loro roulotte, si ritrovano, per caso, ad assistere ad un rito diabolico. Gli adepti della setta cercano di eliminarli ma il gruppetto riesce a fuggire in tempo ed a avvertire la polizia, che però non presta loro attenzione. Cercheranno di cavarsela da soli ma quando finalmente l’incubo sembra finito… Diretto dall’attore-regista Jack Starrett (famoso per aver girato, tra gli altri, vari episodi di due telefilm di grande successo come “Starsky & Hutch” ed “Il pianeta delle Scimmie”) ed interpretato d Peter Fonda “In corsa con il Diavolo” è una pellicola a metà tra l’horror e il drammatico. Sceneggiatura e ambientazioni risentono del basso budget a disposizione per la produzione del film, che si salva dalla “serie B” solo grazie ad un discreto colpo di scena finale.

Get your motors running, get out on the highway. Because Old Nick is coming to get yah!

Race with the Devil is directed by Jack Starrett and written by Wes Bishop and Lee Frost. It stars Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker and R.G. Armstrong. A Panavision/ DeLuxe Colour production, music is by Leonard Rosenman and cinematography by Robert Jessop.

Two vacationing couples have to flee for their lives when they witness a ritualistic slaying by occultists.

Great fun. A raging "B" movie for the 70s drive-in crowd that tapped into the decades new found taste for the occult and highway speeding. Film is cloaked with a paranoia vibe as our two frantic couples desperately try to stay out of the clutches of Satanists. Life and death confrontations come and go, and as they are never sure who is in league with the hooded blood drinkers, they have to assume that they alone must fight the good fight. It all builds to a crescendo of exciting vehicle carnage, which in turn leads to the final denouement, which quite frankly is frustratingly brilliant. Oates and Fonda entertain with brisk and airy performances, though Swit and Parker are really only directed to be screaming banshees waiting to be saved by their burly men.

Best served with lashings of Bourbon and Coke, and not designed to be scrutinised for moral or ethical worth, just enjoy the ride and try and stay one step ahead of Old Nick. 8/10

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