The Vintagent Classics: The films that inspired us. 

RACE WITH THE DEVIL (1975)

Run Time: 1:28:00
Producer: Saber productions, 20th Century Fox
Director: Jack Starrett
Writer: Lee Frost, Wes Bishop
Key Cast: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit

FILM MAKERS

Director Jack Starrett specialized in hugely enjoyable down-‘n’-dirty low-budget drive-in exploitation pictures. His first two were the ‘biker flick’ classics Run, Angel, Run (1969), and The Losers (1970). Both these films are worth a watch as they add a bit more depth to the genre than most.

SUMMARY

“Peter Fonda and Warren Oates are burning their bridges and a lot of rubber… on the deadliest stretch of road in the country!”

Peter Fonda and Warren Oates, star as a couple of dirt-track racers who pack up their bikes and their wives and set out on an RV vacation. Looking to get away from it all, they pass up cookie cutter camp sites in lieu of a secluded spot deep in the woods. Little do they know when they drop the landing gear however, that this grotto has already been booked by … a Satanic cult for a ritual of human sacrifice. They soon find out that “If you’re going to race with the devil, you’ve got to be as fast as Hell!”.

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