Format: Streaming video from Tubi TV on Fire!
Sometimes I wonder if the Satanic Panic of the 1980s was fueled in part by the Satan-infused movies of the previous decade. The ‘70s appeared to be rife with cinematic stories of people turning their life over to Satan. Sometimes you get The Touch of Satan, which ended up as one of the better late-MST3K episodes. Sometimes you get The Devil’s Rain, which featured a surprisingly robust cast for a B-movie fueled by the devil. And sometimes you get The Brotherhood of Satan, a movie that is absolutely bonkers for part of it, but still manages to bring in some real evil and a few decent surprises.
This is also a film that features the talents of L.Q. Jones, a character actor whose career spanned 40+ years, and who named himself after the character he played in his first movie. Jones is virtually unrecognizable in this without his full, giant mustache. Jones is also an uncredited co-author of the screenplay. He plays the sheriff in this, and one of the reasons he’s hard to spot is that he genuinely looks about 10 years younger than his actual age—quite a feat for the early 1970s. He also wrote the follow-up book adaptation.
