as Lilith Release The Devil's Rain was released in 1975, with screenings in New York on August 7 and Los Angeles on August 13, 1975. In 2017, Severin Films released The Devil's Rain on Blu-ray, featuring a 2K restoration from the film's original interpositive as well as various special features. Reception The Devil's Rain received a uniformly negative critical response, with the chief complaint being the incoherent storyline. The film's lack of adequate scares was also widely criticized. Vincent Canby in The New York Times opined that "The Devil's Rain is ostensibly a horror film, but it barely manages to be a horror ... It is as horrible as watching an egg fry." Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times said "All of this would be good silly fun if the movie weren't so painfully dull. The problem is that the material's stretched too thin. There's not enough here to fill a feature-length film." He particularly derided the exhaustive melting of the Satanists at the finale. He gave the film 1½ stars out of four, and eventually added it to his "Most Hated" movies list. In his 2010 book Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies, Australian film reviewer Michael Adams called The Devil's Rain "the ultimate cult movie ... It's about a cult, has a cult following, was devised with input from a cult leader, and saw a future superstar indoctrinated into a cult he'd help popularize." The last reference is to John Travolta and Scientology. See also List of American films of 1975 Notes External links 1975 films 1975 horror films Mexican supernatural horror films American supernatural horror films English-language Mexican films Films directed by Robert Fuest American ghost films Films about Satanism Films about cults 1970s English-language films 1970s American films 1970s Mexican films