Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

HumanoidOfFlesh An ancient stone fortification in the land of Minotaur hides the lair of satanists led by creepy local Baron(Peter Cushing).Three young amateur archaeologists Ian,Beth and Tom find a small golden talisman and suddenly disappear.Aging priest(Donald Pleasence)living on the island of Minos must stop evil Baron and his sect of satanists.He enlists New York detective Milo Kaye to help him.Satanic bloody sacrifices in the hidden chamber of Minotaur must end...Pretty tame and surprisingly bloodless satanic horror with fine performances of Cushing and Pleasence.It's kind of similar to "Blind Dead" series but without gore and nudity.Still it's worth checking out for anyone interested in cult 70's horror.7 Minotaurs out of 10.

Ultimex_Varptuner The Devil's Men represents what turned out to be one of the last gasps of the occult obsessed horror scene of the 70's shortly before Halloween came along, tore up the rule book, set fire to it and kicked it screaming through a plate glass window.To cut a long story short a couple of enterprising Greek film makers fancy their chances of nailing together a new film franchise featuring the unlikely double act of womanising, wise talking American investigator Milo and stuffy but kind hearted priest Father Roche. An exiled nobleman is mixed up in some satanic jiggery pokery - offering up tourists as sacrifices to an extremely unfrightening effigy of the minotaur and only Milo and Roche can stop him! Or something like that.The reality is however horribly dull, frustrating and loaded with wasted opportunities. I strongly suspect that the fledgling film makers blew most of the budget on getting Donald Plesance, Peter Cushing and Brian Eno (for the soundtrack) onboard and hoped that would be enough to sway audiences in the English speaking world.It isn't. The Devil's Men looks beautiful with assured, camera-work and fantastic locations. Eno's score, though basically just a one chord drone that he probably cranked out in an afternoon is suitably atmospheric and the movie is laden with cracking 70's crumpet including that Austrailian sort from Fawlty Towers and uber hottie Jane Lyle of Island of Death infamy. But there the positives end. Cushing sleepwalks through it, looking like he has a corn cob up his bum and Pleasance fusses about trying his best, but never quite getting things right. To make matters worse the character of Milo is appallingly flimsy and unlikeable.Okay, so it doesn't look that good. But from there the film simply refuses to go anywhere. There is an insinuation that the local villagers are possessed, but to be fair to them, they never really do anything very much other than shuffle about looking glassy eyed. Perhaps they were just tired? Just when you are sure things will come to some kind of a head Milo and Roche interrupt the Baron's satanic party with laughable ease, sending him on to meet his maker. The statue of the minotaur falls silent and hey presto! Satan is defeated.Yeah right.The inane optimism that The Devil's Men might be the first of a series of films is hammered home by Father Roche's final line mere seconds before the ridiculously rushed ending. "Who knows Milo? Perhaps one day I may call upon you again to help defeat the Antichrist." I'm sure you'll be putting that call in any day now Donald.

Woodyanders Feisty Father Roche (a lively and engaging performance by Donald Pleasence), comely Laurie (lovely blonde looker Luan Peters), and drippy, skeptical New York City detective Milo (the hopelessly dull Costa Skouras) investigate the mysterious disappearances of several tourists on a Greek island and discover a nefarious cult of Devil worshipers led by the dapperly dastardly Baron Corofax (splendidly played to the suavely sinister hilt by the great Peter Cushing). Blandly directed by Kostas Karagiannis, further undermined by sluggish pacing, a really talky and uneventful narrative, a crippling lack of tension and spooky atmosphere, and a restrictive PG rating which puts the kibosh on any gratuitous nudity and hardcore graphic violence, this standard Satanic cult horror potboiler barely passes muster as a merely adequate and acceptable diversion. While Brian Eno's spare, wonky electronic score, Aris Stavrou's pretty, picturesque photography, a decent sprinkling of splatter in the literally explosive climax, and the always welcome presences of both Cushing and Pleasence are all up to speed, this disappointingly tame'n'tepid timewaster overall still isn't anything to write home about. It's only worth seeing once and that's about it.

mindset_88 Granted this was a good movie if you wanted to see a flick about cultists kidnapping and sacrificing folks. But it's pretty misleading.I'll never forget seeing it as a kid, I was so disappointed waiting for the 'monster' to show and finding out there was only a statue.That's it.. just a statue. No, not a possessed statue, not a supernatural statue, not even a moving statue. (unless you count when it was raised out of the ground mechanically) Just a statue.The poster was truly misleading on this one.Anyway, it's a nice setting and not a bad tale, worth a rent as long as you're not expecting a 'monster'.