Easy Rider was both a triumph and a millstone for its star and producer, Peter Fonda, who lurched from one rip-off to the next. This watchable film contains all the road movie elements of that emblem of 1960s counterculture as well as the automobile mayhem of Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry, which itself traded on Fonda's Easy Rider image. Race with the Devil simply adds more high-speed chases to the formula. By the time this was made, the influence of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby was also present: the bad guys are Satanists from the back of Texas beyond. It's a studio concoction and the characters are taken straight off the shelf, but director Jack Starrett keeps things moving and Fonda's co-star, Warren Oates, is always worth watching.

Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.