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The Devil's Men

  • 1976
  • PG
  • 1h 28m
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4.3/10
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Donald Pleasence, Peter Cushing, Kostas Karagiorgis, and Luan Peters in The Devil's Men (1976)
A satanic cult kidnaps 3 young people and Priest Donald Pleasence and Costas Skouras must save them from the hands of this evil!
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Tourists are kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult, and a priest tries desperately to save them. A gruesome tale of the devil and human sacrifice.Tourists are kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult, and a priest tries desperately to save them. A gruesome tale of the devil and human sacrifice.Tourists are kidnapped by a devil-worshipping cult, and a priest tries desperately to save them. A gruesome tale of the devil and human sacrifice.

  • Director
    • Kostas Karagiannis
  • Writer
    • Arthur Rowe
  • Stars
    • Donald Pleasence
    • Peter Cushing
    • Luan Peters
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.3/10
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    • Director
      • Kostas Karagiannis
    • Writer
      • Arthur Rowe
    • Stars
      • Donald Pleasence
      • Peter Cushing
      • Luan Peters
    • 54User reviews
    • 42Critic reviews
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    Donald Pleasence
    Donald Pleasence
    • Father Roche
    Peter Cushing
    Peter Cushing
    • Baron Corofax
    Luan Peters
    Luan Peters
    • Laurie
    Kostas Karagiorgis
    Kostas Karagiorgis
    • Milo
    • (as Costa Skouras)
    Dimitris Bislanis
    Dimitris Bislanis
    • Sgt. Vendris
    • (as Fernando Bislani)
    Anna Matzourani
    Anna Matzourani
    • Widow - Mrs. Mikaelis
    • (as Anna Mantzourani)
    Christina
    • Grocer's Daughter
    Nikos Verlekis
    Nikos Verlekis
    • Ian
    • (as Nikos Verlel Verlekis)
    Vanna Reville
    Vanna Reville
    • Beth
    • (as Gelsomina)
    Bob Behling
    Bob Behling
    • Tom
    Anestis Vlahos
    Anestis Vlahos
    • Shopkeeper - Karapades
    George Veulis
    • Chauffeur - Max
    • (as George Vevlis)
    Jane Lyle
    Jane Lyle
    • Milo's Girlfriend
    Meira Shore
    Meira Shore
    • Maid
    • (as Meira)
    Jessica Dublin
    Jessica Dublin
    • Mrs. Zagros
    • (as Jessica)
    Efi Kosma
    Efi Kosma
    • First Victim Girl
    Lambrinos
    • First Victim Boy
    Robert Rietty
    Robert Rietty
    • Sgt. Vendris
    • (voice)
    • Director
      • Kostas Karagiannis
    • Writer
      • Arthur Rowe
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    4The_Void

    Extremely poor Satanic horror

    Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance are legendary actors, and director Kostas Karagiannis was the man behind the successful Greek Giallo-esquire thriller Death Kiss in 1974; and yet when you combine the three talents, all you get is this complete load of drivel! God only knows what drove the likes of Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance to star in this cheapie devil worship flick, but I really do hope they were well paid as neither one deserves something as amateurish as this on their resumes. The story focuses on a group of devil worshippers that kidnap some kids, leading another group to go after them. The pace of the plot is very slow and this ensures that the film is very boring. The plot is also a long way from being original and anyone with even a passing interest in the horror genre will have seen something a bit like this, and no doubt done much better. The obvious lack of budget is felt throughout and the film doesn't manage to overcome this at any point. This really is a depressing and miserable watch and not even a slightly decent ending manages to up the ante enough to lift this film out of the very bottom of the barrel. Extremely poor stuff and definitely not recommended!
    4bkoganbing

    The Ancient Gods In Charge

    The presence of Donald Pleasance and Peter Cushing two players well schooled in the horror film make Land Of The Minotaur an endurable feast. Speaking of feasting these two guys digested well a complete diet of ham to get through this film.

    Pleasance plays a priest and Cushing a local nobleman by day, but by night he's the leader of a cult of devil worshipers. The object of their veneration is the ancient Greek monster the Minotaur who according to this film is really just another name for the Christian Satan.

    The cult has captured some visiting young tourists and are using them of course for their own nefarious purposes. So if you can't figure out where this is going you haven't been exposed to too much the work of the two British players.

    Location photography in Greece helps also, but mostly watch it for these two thespian legends.
    4Bezenby

    "I hear you're a Satanist now, Father"

    This is the strangest episode of Father Ted that I've ever seen. It seems to be some sort of prequel starring Donald Pleasance as a younger Father Jack, who is situated on an island in Greece. Jack isn't doing too good a job of stopping tourists he meets from being sacrificed by the local Minotaur cult run by Bishop Brennan (played by Peter Cushing). Jack so far has:

    1) Let two tourists be sacrificed at the start of the film then gets ignored by the police. 2) Fails to warn three further youngsters, then just watches as they sneak off into the night. 3) Waits until one of those three people escapes capture, then after she gets captured he phones New York to get help from a young Father Ted!

    Ted does actually seem to be played by Dermot Morgan, so that's good. He gets to Greece and Father Jack is whining about how the devil and the Minotaur are the same needs to be stopped but Ted is giving the glad eye to a young Mrs Doyle who is looking for one of her friends. It's around this time that we realise that just about everyone in the town is part of the Minotaur cult, but it takes Jack and Ted an awfully long time to figure this out, after:

    4) They totally ignore the one villager who was going to tell them the whole deal. She gets murdered not long after. 5) Leaving Mrs Doyle alone while the Minotaur cultists play 'peek-a-boo' at her bedroom window. 6) Leaving Mrs Doyle alone so she can be captured by the cultists.

    Periodically Peter Cushing turns up as the local Baron/Head Cultist so he can pulls faces at the two of them and say 'What's up bitches?" before getting into his Rolls Royce and driving off. Things come to a head during the ceremony to kill Mrs Doyle, but will good win against evil?

    This is pretty dull, unengaging stuff from start to finish. I've heard there's a version with slightly more gore and nudity in it, but then the version I watched had the 'people exploding' bit at the end, but no nudity. It just needed a kick in the arse action wise from start to finish, as Jack and Ted mostly wander about retracing the steps of the people who were captured and glaring at the locals.

    Brian Eno did the soundtrack, however. I do recognise one track from Music For Films, but the rest was new to me. Not bad.

    You can avoid this one though.
    3Ultimex_Varptuner

    Nice Atmosphere, Shame About Everything Else.

    The Devil's Men represents what turned out to be one of the last gasps of the occult obsessed horror scene of the 70's shortly before Halloween came along, tore up the rule book, set fire to it and kicked it screaming through a plate glass window.

    To cut a long story short a couple of enterprising Greek film makers fancy their chances of nailing together a new film franchise featuring the unlikely double act of womanising, wise talking American investigator Milo and stuffy but kind hearted priest Father Roche. An exiled nobleman is mixed up in some satanic jiggery pokery - offering up tourists as sacrifices to an extremely unfrightening effigy of the minotaur and only Milo and Roche can stop him!

    Or something like that.

    The reality is however horribly dull, frustrating and loaded with wasted opportunities. I strongly suspect that the fledgling film makers blew most of the budget on getting Donald Plesance, Peter Cushing and Brian Eno (for the soundtrack) onboard and hoped that would be enough to sway audiences in the English speaking world.

    It isn't. The Devil's Men looks beautiful with assured, camera-work and fantastic locations. Eno's score, though basically just a one chord drone that he probably cranked out in an afternoon is suitably atmospheric and the movie is laden with cracking 70's crumpet including that Austrailian sort from Fawlty Towers and uber hottie Jane Lyle of Island of Death infamy. But there the positives end. Cushing sleepwalks through it, looking like he has a corn cob up his bum and Pleasance fusses about trying his best, but never quite getting things right. To make matters worse the character of Milo is appallingly flimsy and unlikeable.

    Okay, so it doesn't look that good. But from there the film simply refuses to go anywhere. There is an insinuation that the local villagers are possessed, but to be fair to them, they never really do anything very much other than shuffle about looking glassy eyed. Perhaps they were just tired? Just when you are sure things will come to some kind of a head Milo and Roche interrupt the Baron's satanic party with laughable ease, sending him on to meet his maker. The statue of the minotaur falls silent and hey presto! Satan is defeated.

    Yeah right.

    The inane optimism that The Devil's Men might be the first of a series of films is hammered home by Father Roche's final line mere seconds before the ridiculously rushed ending.

    "Who knows Milo? Perhaps one day I may call upon you again to help defeat the Antichrist."

    I'm sure you'll be putting that call in any day now Donald.
    5meddlecore

    Into The Belly Of The Beast...

    After an English and French couple- followed by 2 Americans and an Australian girl- go missing, while searching for the ritual grounds of an ancient Minoan cult, a private detective from New York is hired, by a local priest, to investigate their disappearances.

    It turns out that this Greek village is home to a long forgotten priesthood, that worships the idol of a Minotaur possessed by Satan, himself.

    Their priest is a local baron, who has been exiled from his homeland.

    And they are grooming a young girl to be the priestess, responsible for making sacrifices to their demon god.

    The closer the two men get to answers...the more people die.

    And they just barely escape with their own lives.

    Now, the only way to stop this demonic cult, is by eliciting some divine intervention.

    For, if they are to save the last couple, before they too are sacrificed, then they must descend directly into the belly of the beast to do so- the Minotaur's lair...from which no one leaves alive.

    And only God can save them...if it's not already too late...

    While not the best satanic cult oriented folk horror ever made...it has some positive elements.

    For instance, the Minotaur's lair is pretty damn cool.

    But the ending was all a bit rushed, and rather implausible.

    Which detracts from the overall enjoyability a little, however, it's entertaining enough to be worth a watch.

    5.5 out of 10.

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    • Trivia
      Donald Pleasence was originally offered the role of Baron Corofax. He only agreed to do the film if he could play Father Roche instead, because he was tired of playing villains.
    • Connections
      Featured in Don't Scream: It's Only a Movie! (1985)
    • Soundtracks
      The Devil's Men
      Music by Karl Jenkins

      Lyrics by Carol Ann Barratt (uncredited)

      Sung by Paul Williams

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    • Release date
      • May 25, 1977 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Greece
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Greek
    • Also known as
      • Land of the Minotaur
    • Filming locations
      • Greece
    • Production companies
      • Getty Pictures Corp.
      • Poseidon Films
      • Poseidon Productions
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 28m(88 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1(original ratio)
      • 1.85 : 1

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