Capital Celluloid 2025 — Day 272: Wed Oct 1

Race with the Devil (Starrett, 1975) + The Brotherhood of Satan (McEveety, 1971):
Prince Charles Cinema, 6pm

This horror double-bill is part of the Garth Marenghi curated season at the Prince Charles Cinema. Marenghi will present a live introduction to the films.

Time Out review of Race with the Devil:
Less a race than a chase, with holidaymaking Peter Fonda, Warren Oates and wives fleeing a bunch of Texas Satanists whose human sacrifice they've barged into. A crescendo of near-miss car smashes, horrible discoveries in the caravan, and out-of-order telephones, convinces the quartet that the whole state's bent; by which time we think so too, and dread the outcome. A wittily efficient quickie, the film is a winner all the way - a surprise, since Starrett's career thus far had been the movie director's equivalent of a criminal record. But it was scripted by Lee Frost and Wes Bishop, who produced another jolly horror, The Thing With Two Heads and who started classically by making sex films in a garage.
Andrew Nickolds

Here (and above) is the Race with the Devil trailer.

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