Severin Films to Melt Your Blu-ray Players with The Devil’s Rain

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The 1970’s were a wonderous time for “Satanic Panic” movies, and few of those satanic shockers ended as wonderfully wacky as the over-the-top 1975 chiller The Devil’s Rain.

No spoilers here. Let’s just say if you’ve never seen The Devil’s Rain, it will melt your horror loving heart (and everything else).

Heaven help you if you have never seen this ooey gooey fright flick from The Abominable Dr. Phibes director Robert Fuest starring Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Ida Lupino, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Keenan Wynn, Anton Lavey, and John Travolta in his movie debut.

Severin Films has announced plans to make it rain again on Blu-ray sometime later this year. Disc details and a release date are still to come. Halloween would be a perfect time for this one, if you ask me.

A bunch of Satanists in the American rural landscape have terrible powers which enable them to melt their victims. However, one of the children of an earlier victim vows to destroy them. The full synopsis follows…

Patriarch Steve Preston goes missing, and worried mom Emma (Ida Lupino) sends eldest son Mark (William Shatner) in search of his father. Suddenly a dying, eyeless Steve returns and demands that the family “give Corbis what belongs to him!” before dissolving into a gelatinous meltdown.

Corbis (Ernest Borgnine) is a Satanic priest hell-bent on recovering a valuable book listing the names of those who sold their souls to the devil… a book that resides with the Preston family. Mark refuses to hand it over and puts up a brave fight, only to wind up an unwilling sacrifice.

Occult expert Dr. Richards (Eddie Albert) and Mark’s younger brother, Tom (Tom Skerritt), plot to free the Prestons and destroy The Devil’s Rain, a bottle containing the souls of those already damned. The battle rages as the elixir is released and a bloody rain of devilry and malevolence is loosed upon a screaming, melting world.

The Devils Rain

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