The Devil's Rain

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                                         5*****skulls</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>*No Blood* *Not Particularly Violent* *No Strong Language* *No Sexual Situations* *No Nudity* *Not Particularly Gory*</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1975/Color/85 Min./United Home Video & Bryanston Distributors, Inc./ Rated PG</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director...........Robert Fuest (</B><I><B>The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Dr. Phibes Rises Again</B></I><B>)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.....Ga</B><B>be Essoe & James Ashton & Gerald Hopman</B></div> <div> <B>Music..............Alde Lory</B></div> <div> <B>Producer........James V. Cullen & Michael S. Glick</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Sandy Howard</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects by Cliff Wegener , Carol Wegner, </B></div> <div> <B>                   Thomas Fisher & Frederico Farfan</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Corbis..............Ernest Borgnine (Deadly Blessing, Marty, Willard)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Richards.....Eddie Albert (Green Acres, The Longest Yard, Oklahoma!)</B></div> <div> <B>Mark Preston...William Shatner (Airplane II, The Babysitter, Star Trek)</B></div> <div> <B>Tom Preston....Tom Skerritt (Alien, The Dead Zone, Poltergeist III)</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Preston....Ida Lupino (Food of the Gods, High Sierra, The Sea Wolf)</B></div> <div> <B>Sheriff Owens.Keenan Wynn (The Dark, Dr. Strangelove, Piranha)</B></div> <div> <B>Julie Preston..Joan Prather (Big Bad Mama, The Deerslayer, Rabbit Test)</B></div> <div> <B>John...............Woodrow Chambliss (Glen and Randa)</B></div> <div> <B>Danny.............John Travolta (Carrie,Grease,Pulp Fiction,Staying Alive)</B></div> <div> <B>Preacher........Claudio Brook (Cronos, Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon)</B></div> <div> <B>Lilith...............Lisa Todd (Blood Hook)</B></div> <div> <B>Steve Preston.George Sawaya </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: More character actors than Mr Rourque could shake a stick at. Looks like Shatner has landed on a planet--But Look--throwing him into a fight with the devil without any preparation works in a Trek episode, but it falls pretty flat here. The scene in which Korbus and his followers are taken and burned has some allure. Hieronymous Bosch painting to start things off. When the souls are released watch for the big melt down. We didn't find Borgnine very scary as the goat/devil--he's just not a terribly slick guy, and you want some slickness in your lords of darkness and light. John Travolta's first film, a year later he's at Carrie's prom. Shatner looks in shape!!! Kind of interesting to watch the ooze drip out of the killed mole people. Eddie Albert is simply absurd as Dr. Richards. For those of you who remember the decent gangster film "Big Bad Mama" this film is sort of it's one year reunion, with Shatner, Wynn, and Prather.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: X is Julie. Y is Tom. Mark (Shatner) tries to comfort his mother who has premonitions. Such comfort ends when the melting, waxy, specter of Mark's father stumbles in, dissolving before their eyes, mumbling about Corbis being in Redstone, the old mining town, and something about Satan. His mother bids Mark to take "the book" to Corbis. Mark resists, and pulls out a pistol. Mark is lured out to the truck and in seconds he finds the old man hanging upside down and his mother gone. "Corbis!" he bellows Kirkishly. The book and medallion, however, are still in their place under the floor boards. The old man is left muttering "they had no faces". Mark dons the medallion and drives out into a stark landscape almost devoid of life forms, ready to facing what no man has faced before. When he arrives, Corbis (Borgnine in a cowboy hat) asks for the book. Mark gives a challenge of faith--that famous will of steel--Corbis gets the book if Mark's faith is broken. Mark finds his mother turned into a mole-eyed devil worshiper. Corbis tricks Mark into throwing his medallion aside, and it looked like they'll have to beam him up if he's to get out this one. An ESP experiment picks up some of the events as Mark is tortured. The sheriff explains some deaths as being caused by the storm. Tom, Mark's brother is not convinced. At Mark's house, Tom finds the old man still muttering about their not having faces. He shows up at the ghost town and finds only an abandoned church. When Julie sees the pentagrams in the old church she recognizes them from her ESP experiment. They find waxy remnants in the church. They come out to find that their car has been fire bombed and then they are almost run over. Y has a struggle with a waxy cowboy and Julie sees images from pilgrim times. Mark's ancestor's wife had turned them in, but was nonetheless burned at the stake with them. Corbis' last challenge was that after his death he would haunt the Preston family forever. Julie tries to to leave the town but when Mrs. Preston pops out from the back seat she runs the care into a tree. Tom dresses up in the devil worshipers garb and hides among the monks at Mark's sacrifice. They burn a doll and Mark feels it. Korbus is possessed by a cheesy looking ram/devil. Mark is turned into a mole eye in the ceremony. Tom is discovered in the congregation and the chase is on.  Julie awakens to find that her ESP visions are true. Tom and Richards find the vessel with all the souls pledged to the devil trapped within.  The book would allow him to bring the souls to hell but can the souls were released before he can do so? One takes at most an academic interest in the question. Tom and Dr Richards hide in the church as Julie it borne in to sacrifice to Satan. When Tom sees Julie he jumps in the midst of them and is soon captured. Richards threatens to break the bottle with the "Devil's Rain" unless Corbis lets Julie and Tom go. The dark ending definitely helps more than hinders this rather plodding piece.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>