The Brotherhood of Satan

9/5/2020

_**Slow-paced arty flick about satanism in a remote desert town**_ A family gets stuck in a desert town where the people seem to have gone mad. No wonder, a satanic cult has set up shop there. Charles Bateman & Ahna Capri play the couple, LQ Jones the sheriff, Strother Martin the doctor and Charles Robinson the priest. “The Brotherhood of Satan” (1971) combines elements of “Carnival of Souls” (1962) and "The Masque of the Red Death” (1964) for satanic horror in a desert town. It has the stamp of an early 70s’ art film and was the precursor to flicks like “Race with the Devil” (1975) and “The Devil’s Rain” (1975). It’s not as good as the former, but better than the latter. The main problem is the tedious pacing with pointless scenes, like the unnecessarily long driving sequenc