Devil’s Rain: The Shat shouts.

= 2 stars

Starring William Shatner, Ernest Borgnine
Directed by Robert Fuest

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With Halloween coming up, here’s a horror film I just watched: The Devil’s Rain, starring several famous folks, Tom Skerrit, Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, and the incomparable William Shatner.

The plot is pretty retarded. A group of Satan devotees who hang out in a desert ghost town want an evil book. Mark (William Shatner) is captured and converted into a Satan-loving zombie. His brother Tom (Tom Skerrit) and a doctor (Eddie Albert) have to rescue him, with a lot of screaming over an urn containing a television set.

This film has many problems, notably the amount of time spent filming crappy special effects of zombies melting. Even if there’s camp value in old, crappy effects, it’s still boring to show shot after shot of the same thing. A few explosions and gun shots to liquid spewing freaks spice things up.

The only truly interesting moments were Shatner’s grimaces of pain and shirt-off struggling against Satanic captors. Unfortunately, these moments are rather few and far between. Also amusing is Ernest Borgnine’s flailing eyebrows and transformation into a horned, goat-headed monster.

Anyhow, it’s Halloween, and for a heavy dose of ‘75 scary cheese, you can’t go wrong with the so-bad-it’s-funny The Devil’s Rain.

IMDB: The Devil’s Rain
Wikipedia: The Devil’s Rain
Rotten Tomatoes: The Devil’s Rain 20%

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