Synopsis
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
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Cast
- Peter FondaRoger
- Warren OatesFrank
- Loretta SwitAlice
- Lara ParkerKelly
- R. G. ArmstrongSheriff Taylor
- Clay TannerDelbert
- Carol BlodgettEthel Henderson
- Phil HooverMechanic
- Ricci WareRicci Ware
- Paul A. PartainCal Mathers
Recommendations
- 83
The A.V. Club
A near-exact cross between Rosemary's Baby, Duel, and The Parallax View, Race With The Devil has problems getting over the flat, TV-style direction by Cleopatra Jones director Jack Starrett, but it gets by on engaging drive-in goofiness, even if it's tough to swallow the idea that mid-'70s Texas swarmed with Satanists. - 80
Time Out
A wittily efficient quickie, the film is a winner all the way - a surprise, since Starrett's career thus far had been the movie director's equivalent of a criminal record. - 70
IGN
While Race with the Devil is a bit slower, it's a haunting, unforgettable experience. - 67
Austin Chronicle
This is some dumb, thoroughly predictable, drive-in flotsam, but between the cast and the nonstop action, it's fun nonetheless. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Fairly effective action-horror film. - 50
Variety
As followup by 20th-Fox to its surprise success with last year’s Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, this Peter Fonda-Warren Oates meller should do okay with action audiences, since it includes the requisite road chases and other hyped-up thrills, some of them slickly executed by director Jack Starrett. Otherwise the production is a sloppy, cynical blend of second-hand plot elements. - 38
Slant Magazine
Fonda might have been able to look good in most everything he was in, but even he can’t save a turd like Race with the Devil. - 30
The New York Times
This is a ridiculous mishmash of a movie for people who never grew up, which is not so say it's for children. One would think that Mr. Fonda and Mr. Oates had better things to do, but perhaps not. American movie production is in a bad state.
