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The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)

Directed by Bernard McEveety

Horror

Most recently watched by sleestakk, scottfinn

Overview

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

Length 92 minutes

Actors

Strother Martin | L.Q. Jones | Charles Bateman | Ahna Capri | Charles Robinson | Geri Reischl | Alvy Moore | Judith McConnell | Helene Winston | Joyce Easton | Debi Storm | Jeff Williams | Robert Ward | Jonathan Erickson Eisley | Alyson Moore | Kevin McEveety | Sheila McEveety | Brian McEveety | Cindy Holden | Debbie Judith | Scott Aguilar | Grant McGregor | Robyn Grei | Linda Tiffany | John Barclay | Anthony Jochim | Patrick Sullivan Burke | Donald Journeaux | Ysabel MacCloskey | Elsie Moore | Cicely Walper | Lenore Shanewise | Phyllis Coghlan | Margaret Wheeler | Gertrude Graner

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

A pre-satanic panic offering from 1971 that features a youngish L.Q. Jones as a sheriff of a small southwestern town, the residents of which are being kept from leaving by mysterious forces which also seem to be kidnapping a growing number of the townspeople’s children.

The trouble starts with a pretty amazing scene that juxtaposes a child’s battery-operated tin tank with a real tank crushing a family in their car. It’s the aftermath of this that our non-nuclear family, the protagonists at the heart of the movie, stumbles across as they wind into town on their way home from a day at the lake.

The town’s reaction to the unexpected arrival of this family in their midst is a great mix of menacing violence, paranoia and mania that’s highly disturbing and really sets the tone for the rest of the film.

L.Q. Jones is great as the sheriff and Strother Martin does a great turn as the town’s doctor who may not be all he appears to be.

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