LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

gavin6942 Two couples vacationing together in a new Vogue R.V. from Texas to Aspen, Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.Some of the decisions made by the characters in this film defy all reason. The bad driving, the ritual sacrifice within view of others campers... and some just silly mistakes. But all the silly plot is made up for by the action, chases and explosions. This is sort of like "Duel" in an RV.The most interesting thing is how the film starts with dirt bikes and you quickly assume the "race" must involve the dirt bikes. And yet, not even halfway in, the bikes are destroyed and serve no real point to the plot. A tank of oil (or gasoline) does, though.

Wuchak Released in 1975, "Race with the Devil" stars Peter Fonda, Lara Parker, Warren Oates and Loretta Swit as two couples harassed in their RV by a group of Satanists in central Texas after accidentally witnessing a sacrificial murder.This is a decent horror/thriller with quite a bit of action, mostly of the car-chase variety, but it's held back by its lack of depth and routine style. There's a secret group of Satanists in central Texas and they seem to be everywhere and COULD be anyone, even the sheriff and his deputies, but this is the extent of the film's depth. In one sense there's nothing wrong with this approach because there are serious Satanists out there and some of them have been known to engage in human sacrifice; Adolfo Constanzo's Mexican cult in the late 80s is a good example (for which the 2007 movie "Borderland" is loosely based). Satanists and human sacrifice have been around for centuries. So it's a great story idea, but it's necessary to add meat to the bones, so to speak, to maintain the viewer's interest. If the filmmakers can't do this then they have to make up for it with exceptional thrills. While there are thrills in "Race with the Devil" they're rather pedestrian and on the level of the average 70's TV movie. Speaking of which, more than anything else "Race with the Devil" comes across as a prosaic made-for-TV movie. Still, it's worth catching (or owning) if you like the stars and the subgenre, just don't expect anything exceptional.The movie runs 88 minutes and was shot in areas West of San Antonio, Texas.GRADE: C+

muckydog2 I'm only adding an observation. I have noticed on so many occasions where a film places the poor buggers in question in a perilous situation, whereupon they take leave in a mighty hurry in a perfectly roadworthy vehicle. It so happens if it was one of us, we would find ourselves shifting into top gear and pelting up the motorway away to freedom and safety...Not so for these poor f@@kers, the petrol gauge suddenly shows empty at worst moment, a tree suddenly appears to halt progress, a tire goes flat, and so often a decent driver suddenly can't control the flippin' vehicle and off the road they go spinning over and coming to rest upside down only to be hacked to death by the mad axeman(spell correct offers ''taxman''). Here in Race with the Devil a cupboard aboard a mobile home is opened as they are driving and a snake pops out! If you were the driver, what would you do? Stop and help? No way! You must drive even faster and erratically over bumpy rough ground until everyone ,snakes and all are writhing about helpless on the floor and then crash into a tree. Yes that's what I would do.

BA_Harrison En route to Colorado in a top-of-the-range RV, two married couples (Peter Fonda & Kelly Marsh and Warren Oates & Loretta Swit) decide to spend the night parked up by a tranquil stretch of river that offers an unobstructed view of the beautiful surrounding countryside. Unfortunately, it also offers a pretty good view of the Satanic human sacrifice that takes place on the opposite bank of the river; when the devil worshippers conducting the ritual realise that their activities have been observed, they set off in pursuit of the terrified foursome, who waste no time in fleeing the scene.The rest of the film is a masterful exercise in suspense, paranoia and excitement as the horrified holiday-makers attempt to make it to the safety of civilisation, unable to trust anyone they meet along the way. Director Jack Starret ignores the fact that the plot is occasionally rather preposterous (we are supposed to believe that almost everyone in the area is in league with the devil and that the antagonists are able to set up elaborate traps at a moments notice) and instead wisely concentrates on delivering the requisite thrills and spills; this he does brilliantly, slowly but surely cranking up the tension until the frantic action-packed final act in which our beleaguered friends are forced to fight back, with spectacular results.The cast are uniformly excellent, with Fonda and Oates ably playing the stoic and resourceful heroes, who cope manfully with everything from rattlers in the RV to all-out road war, whilst Marsh and Swit are totally convincing as their ineffectual wives who handle their predicament by screaming hysterically at every available opportunity. Seasoned character actor R.G. Armstrong also puts in a fine performance as the local sheriff who is just a little too blasé about the possibility of Satanists in his backyard.From the creepy-as-hell sacrifice scene to the unforgettable 'shock' ending, Race With The Devil is top-notch 70s movie-making and really deserves greater recognition than it currently seems to get. Let's hope that the upcoming remake (due in 2011) will inspire more people to seek out the original.