the devil men represent what turn out to be one of the last gasp of the occult obsess horror scene of the 70 shortly before halloween come along and tear up the rule book and set fire to it and kick it scream through a plate glass window . to cut a long story short a couple of enterprising greek film maker fancy their chance of nail together a new film franchise feature the unlikely double act of womanise and wise talk american investigator milo and stuffy but kind hearted priest father roche . an exiled nobleman be mix up in some satanic jiggery pokery offer up tourist a sacrifice to an extremely unfrightening effigy of the minotaur and only milo and roche can stop him . or something like that . the reality be however horribly dull and frustrating and load with wasted opportunity . i strongly suspect that the fledgling film maker blow most of the budget on get donald plesance and peter cushing and brian eno ( for the soundtrack ) onboard and hop that would be enough to sway audience in the english speaking world . it isn not . the devil men look beautiful with assured and camera work and fantastic location . eno score and though basically just a one chord drone that he probably crank out in an afternoon be suitably atmospheric and the movie be laden with crack 70 crumpet include that austrailian sort from fawlty tower and uber hottie jane lyle of island of death infamy . but there the positive end . cushing sleepwalks through it and look like he have a corn cob up his bum and pleasance fuss about try his best and but never quite get thing right . to make matter bad the character of milo be appallingly flimsy and unlikeable . okay and so it doesn not look that good . but from there the film simply refuse to go anywhere . there be an insinuation that the local villager be possess and but to be fair to them and they never really do anything very much other than shuffle about look glassy eye . perhaps they be just tire . just when you be sure thing will come to some kind of a head milo and roche interrupt the baron satanic party with laughable ease and send him on to meet his maker . the statue of the minotaur fall silent and hey presto . satan be defeat . yeah right . the inane optimism that the devil men might be the first of a series of film be hammer home by father roche final line mere second before the ridiculously rush end . who know milo . perhaps one day i may call upon you again to help defeat the antichrist . i be sure you will be put that call in any day now donald .