Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

It is a performances centric movie

Better than most people think

I saw this in the theater, back in the day, and I thought it was awesome. The basic story still holds up OK...gotta love it though, if you can access a little latent paranoia. I mean, nowadays people google things but back in the day you had to go to the library and hope it had the book you needed. Back in the day the phone lines were down...now we have cell phones. Suspend disbelief a bit. Pretend there's no wifi and no signal.

This is only to people who are easy to scary. The story line is awful. The ending is awful. And it not scary. If you get scared of this movie you are to easy to scary. If you want to see something real scary See The Texas chainsaw massacre (1974). That is a real scary movie. If you get scared of this The Texas chainsaw massacre 2 will make you pooh pants. I do not know why it got a 6.6. A lot of people who are easy to scary must have seen it. Of course if you like really gross movies you will like this movie. And if you were scared by this movie do not see Leatherface Texas chainsaw massacre III you will go mad with fear. If you real want to get scared then you should see The Texas chainsaw massacre 2 and you should see Leatherface Texas chainsaw III. Do not waste your time or your money on this crap. It is not a 6.6 it is a 1.

Released in 1975, "Race with the Devil" stars Peter Fonda, Lara Parker, Warren Oates and Loretta Swit as two couples harassed in their RV by a group of Satanists in central Texas after accidentally witnessing a sacrificial murder.This is a decent horror/thriller with quite a bit of action, mostly of the car-chase variety, but it's held back by its lack of depth and routine style. There's a secret group of Satanists in central Texas and they seem to be everywhere and COULD be anyone, even the sheriff and his deputies, but this is the extent of the film's depth. In one sense there's nothing wrong with this approach because there are serious Satanists out there and some of them have been known to engage in human sacrifice; Adolfo Constanzo's Mexican cult in the late 80s is a good example (for which the 2007 movie "Borderland" is loosely based). Satanists and human sacrifice have been around for centuries. So it's a great story idea, but it's necessary to add meat to the bones, so to speak, to maintain the viewer's interest. If the filmmakers can't do this then they have to make up for it with exceptional thrills. While there are thrills in "Race with the Devil" they're rather pedestrian and on the level of the average 70's TV movie. Speaking of which, more than anything else "Race with the Devil" comes across as a prosaic made-for-TV movie. Still, it's worth catching (or owning) if you like the stars and the subgenre, just don't expect anything exceptional.The movie runs 88 minutes and was shot in areas West of San Antonio, Texas.GRADE: C+

The premise here is pure grindhouse. Two couples on a vacation take the wrong turn of the road and see something they weren't supposed to see, the cops are not too quick to assist them, the locals are suspect, and before they know it devilworshippers are on their path. Reason I came to Race with the Devil is that inveterate badass, Warren Oates, thinking I may find another little gritnik gem in the raw. This is no Hired Hand Oates did again with Peter Fonda, it's certainly no Monte Hellman although it tries to resemble a road movie, and it's generally forgettable to the point that even Oates and Fonda seem to be generally nonplussed by the material. Some may find it entertaining as a satanic cult paranoia b-movie or an action road flick where beatup vehicles speed up in empty roads and slam at each other. Me, I came looking for something this movie is not, no harm done though. I don't exactly lament my wasted time because sometimes you take chances and not all of them will pay off.