Availableon DVD for the first time, THE DEVILS is presented in the original UK X certificate version with these bonus features: Introduction by Mark Kermode Audio commentary with Ken Russell, Mark Kermode, Michael Bradsell and Paul Joyce Hell on Earth (Paul Joyce, 2002, 48 mins): documentary exploring the film’s production and the controversial history

Theonce X-rated film stars Vanessa Redgrave as a nun lusting after the town priest. Blasphemers, rejoice! For the first time ever, you can now stream “ The Devils ,” the 1971 Ken Russell film

Torchwoodstar Murray Melvin has died aged 90, with Russell T Davies among those paying tribute.. As well as the Doctor Who spinoff, the actor was also known for starring in the 2004 film adaption Orgies exorcisms, naked nuns and ‘the Rape of Christ’: 50 years on, Russell's film is still too shocking to be seen in full. When the film director Ken Russell died in 2011, one obituary

The Devils," a 17th-century tale of religious fanaticism, may be writer/director Ken Russell's best film, but it could have been even better if he hadn't pushed his actors so far over the top.

KenRussell today is not the mischievous maverick of forty years ago. Perhaps even more importantly, one of his true masterpieces, 1971’s The Devils , remains out of print and out of the

TheDevils (1971) directed by the British enfant terrible, Ken Russell, was one of a couple of controversial films to have been submitted and to have challenged the BBFC during the early 1970's. The other films being Kubrick's 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971) and the other, Sam Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs' (1971).

1 The Devils (1971) A film that is so controversial, so against the Hollywood idea of a proper film, one that took to the Catholic religion and denounced it in every way possible, The Devils is one that I simply adore and wish more people knew about.

TheDevils. Ken Russell produced and directed this historical horror film based loosely on the Aldous Huxley book The Devils of Loudun. The film stars Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave and the story tells the account of a Roman Catholic priest named Urbain Grandier who was tortured and executed for witchcraft in 1634. 7B97t.