Year: 1985
Duration: 01:12:37
Directed by: Bernard Launois
Actors: Véronique Renaud, Marcel Portier and Catherine Day
Language: French | English
Country: France
Also known as: Il était une fois le diable – Devil Story
Description: This is an upload of the bizarre, inept French horror movie DEVIL STORY, a film about a maniacal monster, dressed in a Nazi uniform, rampaging through the French countryside. Oh, and there’s a mummy too – but not the kind that gives you your bottle before bedtime. Shot for half a French franc, DEVIL STORY is grade-Z trash of the lowest order.
The French have their talons in me. Always have, always will. As a result, I’m usually on the lookout for another Ogroff, which, if you didn’t know, happens to be the apex of trash-horror cinema en Français. Let’s clink glasses. A distant second has been discovered.
If you’re not on the floor in hysterics after the first hour of Devil Story aka Devil’s Story, abandon hope. Come to think of it, thoughts of abandonment are a good starting point. Devil Story, the first and final horror film from enigmatic director Bernard Launois, abdicates any inkling of normalcy. It’s a compact, night-in-the-life campfire tale that fixates on exploitive juvenile absurdity. As a bonus, it’s also completely hilarious. Was that Launois’s main aim? Who knows. Any film that can fork over three minute scenes of blood-barfing AND an all night, satanic horse hunting sequence (“Goddamn that sonuvabitch horse!”) deserves the blurry lines it asks for.
Is this Ogroff, The Early Years? For the first ten minutes, a malformed boogeyman in a Pea Coat scours the French countryside, murdering random travelers. Blowing blood out of a tube is the main focus here. Soon after, a couple’s car breaks down, a cat yelps at them, and they arrive at an impressive castle, which is inhabited by a couple of old farts. The geriatrics speak of The Equinox; Days as long as nights! Horse neighing! Ye olde plundering! Turns out, the mad killer and his gypsy mother not only live on the plains and kill people, but they also own a mummy. He walks through a cemetery. The old man (in camouflage) spends the entire film blasting a shotgun and lobbing insults at a “devil horse”. A woman runs around. The killer falls through a brick wall. Was it all a dream? Lord, no. The legend continues.
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