My brother told me about "Race With the Devil" many years ago after he had seen some of it on a late night T.V showing. The way the film was described to me, made me curious in wanting to see it. I had to wait a while for the film to be shown again as obtaining it on video was going to be hard. BBC 2 eventually showed "Race With the Devil" in 1997 at about midnight. I was quite impressed with the final results. Warren Oates is the best actor in the film - he is most under-rated - but the other main cast members are OK. The film has a pretty good atmosphere and is well paced with a fair bit of incident. Nothing is quite what it seems at first glance. The ending comes after quite a build-up and I found it to be all the more shocking. This wasn't the kind of film that was expected to be a box office success but it is still a neat little film.

This is only to people who are easy to scary. The story line is awful. The ending is awful. And it not scary. If you get scared of this movie you are to easy to scary. If you want to see something real scary See The Texas chainsaw massacre (1974). That is a real scary movie. If you get scared of this The Texas chainsaw massacre 2 will make you pooh pants. I do not know why it got a 6.6. A lot of people who are easy to scary must have seen it. Of course if you like really gross movies you will like this movie. And if you were scared by this movie do not see Leatherface Texas chainsaw massacre III you will go mad with fear. If you real want to get scared then you should see The Texas chainsaw massacre 2 and you should see Leatherface Texas chainsaw III. Do not waste your time or your money on this crap. It is not a 6.6 it is a 1.

Does tick quite a few boxes of the period: satanic rituals, luxury campers, motorbikes, car chases and stunts (did they forget kung fu?) but this is one of the best - if not thee best - horror of it's type.The best laid plans of mice and men go to hell when our heroes-like-zeros spy on some Devil worshippers just to get a hazy flash of a young woman's upper charms. All hell breaks loose and a thrilling chase ensues. And when you start to think: well that was that, now things will go flat - you're just a wrong person living in negative town.This film has so much: the satanic thang, the automobile chases / fight action, the relentless threat, and Polanski-esk paranoia and claustrophobia. In 'feel' it's mostly like DUEL, with maybe a hint of ROSEMARY'S BABY.If a new law is passed limiting everybody to 10 horror films, I might keep this one, but 'm not sure, would be close, I'll let you know.

Very enjoyable occult/action thriller with a genuinely creepy devil worship scene (the chanting is very scary), an effectively downbeat ending, and a sense of paranoia and dread throughout. You're never sure when the devil worshipers will strike next, or which supporting character might be one. There is a scene at a swimming pool that is very effective in showing the justified paranoia of the main characters when they sense they're being stared at and they grow increasing uncomfortable. The music and stillness of the scene works very well.Fonda has his usual earnest, freewheeling, and laid back personality which disguises a fast-witted man of action, Oates has a somewhat tired, "just woke up" quality that is very watchable and easy to relate to, but he is also capable of getting righteously angry and ready to fight, and the two female characters...well, they just kind of stay in the background, look pretty, flash their toothpaste-ad smiles and do some research into Satan. They could have been better written.The background music, while very effective in the scary parts, has a generic, TV-movie quality in the slower scenes, and some of the supporting characters are kind of silly (like the sheriff, deputy and librarian).There is a good sense of action, with lots of chase scenes and some motorcycle riding (although there maybe should have been a motorcycle chase scene with the satanists).All in all, a somewhat dated, but much better than average occult/action film which still holds up very well today.