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MrE2Me

Wow, this was incredible. Easily Ken Russell's masterpiece. Reed and Redgrave have never been better, but the entire cast (and crew) is at the top of their game here. It's downright criminal that Warner Bros. (i.e. Alan Horn) is doing everything in their power to prevent the original, uncut version of this from being released (or even screened). Oh, the irony of a film about religious fanaticism and hypocrisy being held hostage by a hypocritical religious fanatic. Sigh...
13 years ago
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St. Gloede

Such a fantastic film! Watch it!!! Just as good as Witchfinder General!
14 years 6 months ago
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george4mon

By half way through I was wondering why this wasn’t also tagged as a comedy, there are parts I found genuinely hilarious in a twisted ‘a clockwork orange’ and ‘the favorite’ kind of way.
5 years ago
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angrychairman

I saw this on 35mm in Chicago last night. It was an amazing experience
7 years 6 months ago
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Outcaster

Masterpiece!
12 years 6 months ago
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mcmakattack

Hooptober X

Satan/Devil centered films, Directors: Russell

God Damn! Beautiful, atrocious, blasphemous, filled to the brim with black humor and irony. The performances by the actors are stellar, one can't take their eyes off Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. Michael Gothard who plays the most heretical hippy priest is so weird, borderline anachronistic, but it works so well.

These actors also serve to elevate the themes around performance in The Devils. The way the exorcisms, possessions and torture all serve as a spectacle to a hungry, raving crowd, showcase so much how religion is used as a tool. A perverse tool to manipulate and promote often evil whims and schemes.

I would highly recommend the Hardcore History Podcast episode "Painfotainment" as an accompaniment to this movie. Touches on similar themes around public torture and execution as spectacle.
5 months ago
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daisyaday

https://archive.org/details/7.8-the-devils-1971-un-cut.
5 months 1 week ago
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samoan

Available via Shudder.tv at the moment
7 years ago
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monty

Watch the still banned "Rape of Christ" scene here
(starting at 0:49):
(mod-edit: dead link removed)
7 years 6 months ago
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leannan

Come on Netflix, why you no has?
12 years 8 months ago
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nicolaskrizan

sex, religion, politics

http://beyond1001movies.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/1156/
10 years 1 month ago
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mightysparks

I would like to buy this film, not The Devil Wears Prada!
12 years 9 months ago
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