Bad, but watchable for old time sake.
- Race with the Devil review by CP Customer
Like others watched this little ‘gem’ years ago. It’s not aged well, but I still enjoyed it for nostalgia sake. The plot has so many holes in it, the ensemble cast acting is dire. Car chase scenes are still not bad at all. Overall It’s old, has dated badly, but good for a laugh. Don’t expected to be scared, but not bad for a few hours entertainment. Peter Fonda grimacing is worth the rental alone.
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Good old fashioned horror/thriller
- Race with the Devil review by FW
I first saw this film years ago and having just watched it again it’s just as good as I remember. It’s thrilling from beginning to end. Edge of the seat fantastic film.
1 out of 2 members found this review helpful.
PETER FONDA ON A BIKE, AGAIN!
- Race with the Devil review by Frank Talker™
Very good scary White people chasing scared White people movie.
Here we are presented with a culture from which there is no escape, when two couples go against their culture and are repeatedly threatened until an explosive climax is reached.
Lara PARKER, in particular, essays a superb sense of being trapped in a nightmare from which she cannot awake, by showing how complacent White people are in their uncontrollable fear of each other.
Despite the implausible plot, the emotional realism and dread-filled atmosphere grips like a garotte and never let's up.
1 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
Good 70’s film
- Race with the Devil review by SB
Ok it’s from the 70’s, but it’s still a good show.
I seen it at the Drive In in Australia as a kid !, yep changed days, anyway still quite disturbing in good old 70’s style.
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Fighting for Parking Space
- Race with the Devil review by griggs
Some films age like wine; this one ages like petrol fumes in a shag-pile motorhome.
On paper, Race with the Devil should be right up my street: Warren Oates, Peter Fonda, satanists, motorhomes and a paranoid chase across Texas. In practice, it feels like several better films fighting for parking space inside the same RV.
It sparks occasionally. Starrett turns a petrol station or roadside diner into somewhere skin-crawling, and the central idea of not knowing who to trust has enough meat on it to sustain a better film. A few moments of paranoia linger well after the plot has forgotten about them.
You spend much of the film watching bland characters drive from one location to another while the story marks time. The women are given very little to do, the dialogue is functional, and Peter Fonda never convinces me as an ordinary Texas businessman.
The ending is memorable, but getting there feels like a long haul. Not terrible, just running on fumes.
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