The Devil Rides Out

Uh-huh

... is The Devil Rides Out.

I've got that here in my also-ran.

Well, we'll, we'll talk about it, and then we- we, we'll do it.

Barbara Ewing from Future Weirdy, Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, John Carson from previous weirdies The Plague Of The Zombies, Taste The Blood Of Dracula, and Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter.

And Rosalind Landor, who played Little Peggy in the greatest film ever made, The Devil Rides Out.

And, to top it all, Don Sharp, the director of previous weirdy Kiss of the Vampire.

Was this one of the reasons I chose this episode? Maybe.

Back at the Corazon Society, Randolph has another go with a young lady and the scrying glass.

Except this time it's to locate Alison and to not conjure a demon.

This is where some similarities with the Devil Rides Out show.

In the classic best film ever made, both Mokatta and the Richelieu use women and trances to locate things.

Out.

The Devil Rides Out.

That kind

of had a little bit to do with witchcraft.

But the strange thing is...

Hammer themselves didn't write this.

This was based on a book, like The Devil Rides Out was.

So I don't know if maybe they didn't follow the book the way it was supposed to be.

We'll do Dracula, Prince of Darkness from 1958.

Christopher Lee, The Devil Rides Out, which is another great Hammer horror movie.

Vampire Circus, if you want to get a little freaky, a little 70s, a little weird with your vampire movies.

Then let's do road horror movie, Wrong Turn.

So which, whichever.

This isn't as bad as, you know, The Devil's Bride versus The Devil Rides Out, so you know.

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Yeah.

Uh, she has a granny, Granny Rigg, and I'm, I don't know if I can even try to pronounce this woman's name.

I'll just call her Gwen Davies, because, uh, the, the middle part of her name there, it looks absolutely like there, there's just no way I'm pronouncing that correctly, so I'm not even going to try.

But, uh, she is very interesting, and I do remember her in a very interesting role in, uh, another Hammer film, The Devil Rides Out, right?

Oh, yeah.

Kurt Holman, you have the floor.

Well, I mentioned the Hammer Studios movies, and I may have recommended this before, but I wanted to recommend one of my favorite Hammer movies, which is The Devil Rides Out, which is from like I think 1967 and Christopher Lee who is usually the monster or the adversary in the movies is the hero in this one he's an occult like Jason Blood esque you know supernatural investigator do-gooder type and he's fighting this like team of cultists who are led by actor Charles Gray who was played Blofeld in the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever and is the criminologist or narrator in the Rocky Horror Pictures show, Tim Curry RIP.

And it's a very, very fun, you know, not all that scary, but very fun like occult, like good guys versus bad guys and evil spells and hypnotism and demons appearing and, you know, pentagrams and like giant spells.

spiders and whatnot, so it's very entertaining.

So, you know.

Captain Collier is played by lantern-jawed Patrick Allen, who appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, Hammer's The Viking Queen, there's that again, and The Devil Rides Out, or his voice did, dubbing another actor, and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.

He also narrated tons of movies and TV series, and shortly after this starred as the lead in the BBC series Crane, where he played a smuggler.

His bosun is played by David Lodge, who appeared in Hammer Comedy's Up the Creek and The Ugly Duckling, which is a comedy version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.