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Anton LaVey, Eddie Albert, Ernest Borgnine, Ida Lupino, John Travolta ...( see more  see more... ) , Tom Skerritt , William Shatner

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PG, 1 hr. 25 min.

Directed by: Robert Feust, Robert Fuest

Release Date: January 1, 1975

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DVD Release Date: June 15, 1999

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  • July 10, 2007
    There are a lot of good scenes in this movie, but they just don't connect well to form a cohesive story. There was a great opening scene where William Shatner and Ernest Borgnine battle wits in a creepy ghost town. There's a strange scene with of John Travolta; you hardly recogni...( read more)ze him as he runs down a staircase like a maniac, and melts without saying anything. It's great seeing Ernest Borgnine turning into a goat-devil. There is long scene at the end where the entire Devil cult melts from the Devil's Rain. It has a very 1970's B-Movie feel to it all. It's a spectacle of scenes, with little of a plot.
  • June 24, 2007
    Aka "Hell Rain", it has the best melting face scene in any horror movie to date. It also features John Travolta in his first role.
  • May 7, 2009
    Awsome film that would of been great to see at the drive in. Shatner screams like a bitch, making this worth seeing for that! A very underrated horror film. The last five minutes or more is just a complete grusome meltdown!
  • June 4, 2008
    The story doesn't make sense., Even the movie itself., From the beginning until ear end, it keeps me guessing what is the objective of this film and couldn't find myself to think one., I suggest that they should tell from the beginning what the story is all about, like, in the fo...( read more)rm of a narration., But its good about how they make the last scene, where the bodies melts..,
  • May 20, 2008
    I recently saw this on Cable and its kind of cheesy but a little spooky esp since it has Anton Levay in it.Alot of big name Actors were in it which suprised me.Overall weird.
  • April 19, 2008
    I loved watching this movie
  • January 22, 2008
    Ernest Borgnine, Tom Skerritt, William Shatner, John Travolta, Ida Lupino and the devil's main man himself, Anton LaVey. How could I resist. Fantastic cult offering, with a good cast struggling to keep it floating. Fortunately, it sinks...
  • October 9, 2007
    This is one of those weird films that's just an awesome combination of bizarre storytelling juxtaposed by a surprisingly good cast. They do their best with what they've got.

    The Devil's Rain is one of those films that's got that word of mouth, cult following because in all hones...( read more)ty I haven't heard much about the film from anybody other than tidbits here and there, but who can really resist a movie about The Devil with such a great actor like Borgnine and marginal roles by Skerritt and yes, Shatner. John Travolta plays one of the cult followers but sadly his screen time is very limited.

    The movie starts out with a bang, or perhaps I should say a "slosh" as we see Mark Preston's (played by Shatner) father come back and melt into the Rain....perhaps "The Devil's Rain"? Borgnine has been after the Preston ranch and Shatner is out to put a stop to it.

    Venturing out to stop Borgnine, Mark falls into a trap of the Worshippers and it falls upon Tom Preston (played by Skerritt) to get to the bottom of this.

    This movie is chock full of talk about the Devil, Satanic Rituals and just stuff so out there it's weird they got such famed actors like Borgnine and Shatner to take part in it, but to be fair Shatner wasn't doing much else. This movie also has a cameo by Anton LeVay which is pretty neat, he is the High Priest and founder of "The Church Of Satan".

    When it comes down to it, this movie is just fun, an absurd mid 70's trip into Satanism and the Occult that really does have to be seen to believed.

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  • Debonaire
    April 13, 2007
    I havn't seen it yet, but something that's interesting is that "Anton LaVey" who stars in this movie, is the founder and first High Priest of the Church of Satan.
  • stopeatingthecheesec
    December 22, 2006
    All i heard about this film is that it is John Travolta's 1st film and he "melts" in one scene.

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