The Brotherhood of Satan

  • Horror
8/6/1971
92

A demon-spirit of madness and murder holds a California town in the grip of terror.

A family is trapped in a desert town by a cult of senior-citizens who recruit the town's children to worship Satan.

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      • Wuchak

        Slow-paced arty flick about satanism in a remote desert town

        A family gets stuck in a desert town where the people seem to have gone mad. No wonder, a satanic cult has set up shop there. Charles Bateman & Ahna Capri play the couple, LQ Jones the sheriff, Strother Martin the doctor and Charles Robinson the priest.

        The Brotherhood of Satan (1971) combines elements of Carnival of Souls (1962) and "The Masque of the Red Death (1964) for satanic horror in a desert town.

        It has the stamp of an early 70s art film and was the precursor to flicks like Race with the Devil (1975) and The Devils Rain (1975). Its not as good as the former, but better than the latter. The main problem is the tedious pacing with pointless scenes, like ...

        September 5, 2020

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