Ernest Borgnines Satan (!)
battles Wiliam Shatner(!)
for the souls of the damned in Devil’s Rain.
Okay, theres no denying thatThe Devils Rainmakes little if any sense.
In the end it didnt help much.
),Green Acres Eddie Albert (as a clinical parapsychologist of some kind!
), and the always splendid Keenan Wynn (as The Sheriff!).
The film also boasts a miniBig Bad Mama(!)
reunion, with William Shatner, Tom Skerrit (as William Shatners brother!)
and Joan Prather (as a psychic or yogi or something!).
He even has a line.
More a word than a line, actually, but at least its repeated (Blasphemer!
The only one missing, it seems, is R.G.
I always wondered a little about that R.G.
Regardless of what followed, that opening remains quite effective.
Now the damned souls, see, he keeps in a sort of giant ornate sno-globe.
Its kind of a holding pen for damned souls known as the devils rain.
I guess because its always raining inside the sno-globe.
Oh, I give up.
Ive seen the damned picture twenty times and still havent quite figured it out.
But these are the kinds of questions you quickly learn not to ask duringThe Devils Rain.
But it was the centerpiece of the ad campaign, so he had to deliver.
For all its glaring faults, there is plenty here to like without snickering.
The cinematography is quite good, and the shots of the New Mexican desert are beautiful.
The production design is surprisingly good for a film of this budget.
The highlight of the film, however, is the performance from Ernest Borgnine.
As Corbis, he plays essentially four roles here.
Hes friendly and charming and full of folksy quips.
And as the goat-headed vessel for Satans worldly incarnation, hes guttural and growly and hungry for souls.
Well, Mark loses, pulls a gun, and starts shooting waxy black-robed Satanists willy-nilly.
To this Corbis calmly and knowingly asks, Is THAT your faith?
Even if it doesnt make any sense.
you’ve got the option to purchase The Devils Rain on Amazon.
