It's also, thanks to Wheatley, well researched, which when finding the story is set in more modern times, gives the film an authentic sheen as it rides on into the macabre. The latter of which managing to streamline Wheatley's potent, but long, source material into a fast paced hour and a half movie.
There was much in the film's favour from the off, it had the studio's best director in the chair, the charismatic Christopher Lee in the lead and the talented Matheson (I Am Legend/The Shrinking Man/Hell House) writing the screenplay.
It's a film that now, more than ever, is rightly viewed as not only one of the best film's to have come out of Hammer, but also as one of the best British horror movies ever released. So the studio waited a few more years and finally got the film out a couple of years shy of the 70's. It was meant to come out a bit earlier in the 60's, but Satanism, an always iffy subject, would have seen censorship strip Hammer's ideas for the film to the bone. As the Duc and his friends try to save Simon from the cult, Mocata and his followers summon the forces of evil to aid their cause. 1930's England and Duc de Ricleau (Lee) finds that his young friend Simon Aron has gotten himself involved with a Satanic cult led by the evil Mocata (Gray). Filmed in Technicolor with Arthur Grant the cinematographer and the music is scored by James Bernard. Directed by Terence Fisher, it stars Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower, Sarah Lawson and Paul Eddington. It's based on the 1934 novel of the same name written by Dennis Wheatley, with Richard Matheson adapting the screenplay. The Devil Rides Out (AKA: The Devil's Bride) is produced out of Hammer Film Productions.
The close up of the Angel of Death has a new background with flames as the original intended shot was never finished.
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