It comes down to a decision for the eyeless man. Albert lifts the Satanic television above his head.Įyeless William Shatner simply takes the television away from Mr. Showing considerable strength for a white-haired man of advanced age, Mr. Lupino.) "Unless you allow Tom and Julie Preston to leave here safely, I will destroy the Devil's Rain!" "I want Tom and Julie Preston." (One might think the good scientist rude, or perhaps he has a grudge against Mr. "Corbis, you want the Devil's Rain," says Mr. Skerritt sees his wife being brought into the church as a potential sacrifice, he leaps into action and is captured by his brother, Eyeless William Shatner. Borgnine becomes a terrifying ram-headed beast, the personification of Satan himself! (It is unclear why the group has walked many miles into the desert instead of using the Satanist church in town, which had a similar altar.) Shatner is their prisoner, and eventually he is chained to a stone altar. Skerritt somehow disguises himself as a Satanist and follows several hundred of the cultists through the desert. He allows Julie to drive away, and she almost immediately drives into the only tree in the desert when she sees an eyeless child in the back seat of the car. Skerritt decides to get out of the car and return to the town to look for his brother. Shatner's abandoned station wagon, but Mr. Skerritt and his wife flee the ghost town in Mr. Borgnine cries out, "Martin Fife, a curse on thee and thine forevermore! I will follow thee and thy descendants for all eternity until the book is mine again!" The god-fearing Pilgrims choose this very moment to march with torches to the Satanist church and break down the door. We find out that Martin Fife's wife was the one who stole the book. Shockingly, William Shatner is one of the gathered Satanists, a man named Martin Fife. "Didst one of thee fall from the favor of Lucifer?" Mr. In an ESP-induced flashback, we go back to sepia-toned Puritan times in New England. Phibes movies and a series of ABC Afterschool Specials), and of course High Priest of the Church of Satan Anton Szandor LaVey (aka Howard Levey), a technical advisor. Familiar names from the titles include actors Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, William Shatner, Keenan Wynn, Ida Lupino, Tom Skerritt, and John Travolta, among others, as well as Oscar-winning film editor Michael Kahn (who edited this film between Hogan's Heroes and Close Encounters of the Third Kind), director Robert Fuest (between the Dr. The film opens with its titles shown over details from Hieronymus Bosch's paintings of the Garden of Earthly Delights. Correcting them requires a detailed exploration of the film so detested by this "Roger Ebert" character. Seems they had a somewhat interesting concept and just rushed it to the finish line." Lee Harris, also on IMDB, writes, "Volumes could be written about what this film lacks plot, compelling diologue, catharsis, acting." No doubt that's why we get so many barren landscapes filled with lonely music and ennui." (In fact, this film is on a list of Ebert's most hated films, along with other fine movies such as The Deathmaster, Critters 2, and Halloween III.) Continuing with reviews, on IMDB Aaron1375 writes, "Most of the movie is sadly rather underdone. There's not enough here to fill a feature-length film. When the film was first released, someone named Roger Ebert wrote, "The problem is that the material's stretched too thin. However, the clumsiness of the advertising copy does not detract from the high quality of Robert Fuest's allegorical masterpiece of good versus evil. "Heaven Help Us All When The Devil's Rain" is the tag-line for The Devil's Rain (1975), one of the most famous examples of a copywriter misunderstanding the difference between a possessive apostrophe and a plural noun.
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