eddie albert must have read my mind when he ask tom skerritt in one scene where they come into a ghost town and the devil rain . that a new one . i myself have never hear of such nonsense maybe because as far a i know and there be no such thing and the only earthbound element that the devil be associate with be the fire and brimstone of dark and miltonesque poem and the well know garden of earthly delight of hieronymous bosch and feature in the opening title . but this be what happen when you make a smashing success like rosemary baby and the exorcist . all of the waste product try to jump in on the bandwagon and see what profit they can make by lure unsuspecting fool into the theatre and show them an exploitation film about satanist which be all this movie be and anyway . so let see what we have here . a plot to gain control of a book and a battle between the devil himself ( channel and apparently and through the body of john corbis ) and the preston family . first the father go and melt into a soft bubbling goo . then the mother play by an unrecognizable and tired look ida lupino also be force to join the cult and put some cheap look eye patch that be suppose to make her eye black . then it become william shatner turn and and he go and but without a fight . finally and it up to tom skerritt and eddie albert to see if they can have a hand in win this battle and go home with some really cool prize and to which we get to the only character who do basically nothing but have a lame vision and scream mindlessly at the end represent skerritt wife . a terrifically lazy story that be and apparently and write on autopilot . the devil rain be a total bore and as horror a edgar allan poe be screwball comedy and but there it be and exist in the time period of the height of the horror genre and feature a hammy performance from ernest marty borgnine and a blink and miss appearance of john travolta a he yell blasphemer . blasphemer . and show off his notorious cleft chin and and the melting sequence and which go on and on and on into the void and flank with sound of moan and lot of writhe around . it could be a teeny bit redeemable if it weren not for the flat out unbelievable final scene . oh and bloody hell .