Tag Archives: The Devil

The Devil’s Rain (1975)

Posted on February 9, 2013 at 10:23 am by Jeff Kuykendall

If cinema is to be believed, there was a period from about 1968 (and Rosemary’s Baby) through 1981 (and Omen III: The Final Conflict) in which Satan’s minions rose in throngs throughout the world, and we were ever on the … Continue reading →

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This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (1966)

Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Zé do Caixão, better known to English-speaking horror fans as Coffin Joe, is the creation of director José Mojica Marins, who began playing the character in At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (1963), growing out his fingernails until they resembled … Continue reading →

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Eye of the Devil (1966)

Posted on February 10, 2012 at 6:00 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Based on Philip Loraine’s little-remembered suspense novel Day of the Arrow, J. Lee Thompson’s British thriller Eye of the Devil (1966) creeps up on its occult themes slowly, building over its hour-and-a-half toward revelations of a secret society and black … Continue reading →

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