Review of Race with the Devil (1975) by Steve O — 02 May 2012

I saw this film at the drive-in when I was a kid, maybe 13 or 14 years old, and it has stuck with me ever since. I remember looking for YEARS, hoping to find a VHS or, later, a DVD copy. Finally, I tracked it down.

This was a truly great drive-in picture, and like other truly great drive-in pictures (Basket Case, Sssss, Kentucky Fried Movie, etc), both deeply flawed and deeply satisfying. Satisfying in that we got to see very weird weirdness, well outside what was considered "normal" at the time.

I won't argue the flaws - they are dire. Still, Race with the Devil is a truly frightening, if unlikely, piece of work, and in my world deserves 3 of 5 stars.