As exciting as watching a Texas dust Bowl roll on, this has less to do with the devil and more to do with the devil's enemy and his followers who have taken things too far. It takes forever to get to that point in the movie where anything remotely spiritual or in this case sacrilegious takes place, and it's obvious from the start that this is a film with an agenda. They obviously had to start with saving money so you do not get any familiar faces or names to star in it, and the cast as a result is very bland. What you do that are a bunch of subtle hints starting with a visitor to the area crashing his car and walking along the darkened Texas Highway nights only to be taken in by a stranger in another car. When you see this visitor again, he's back in his car, burnt to death, and that poses some curious questions because of other details at the scene.

So instead of a satanistic cult, you get an extremely old time religion cult, and it is bland and dull and as lifeless as a desert. The sound recording is so bad, one of those examples of a type of sound that gives you a headache because it is so tinny and tedious and the dialogue spoken with touch blandness and at a slow pace. In fact, technically, it is even worse then the script of no real moving story, and the acting just sort of lays there. It takes more than an hour for anything involving the plot to be revealed, just a bunch of teeny details, so the viewer feels lost and uninvolved. I do not think that I could have made it through this film on the big screen and on DVD, it's easy for the viewer to make a choice, one that I utilize to give up the ghost just an hour into the film. Wretchedly dull without ever any hope of speeding it up.

The story is set in some Southwest town. There have been some accidents and the sheriff has been investigating them. When one dies, it's chalked up as just another accident...even though the coroner says this first one was murder. The sheriff didn't believe him but begins to when more are discovered dead due to various 'accidents'. At the same time, a professor from El Paso has arrived in town to look into cult activity. What's really going on here?

"Enter the Devil" is a super low budgeted picture. It was filmed in the middle of nowhere in the Texas desert and stars a cast of unknown actors with little experience. Oddly, however, despite this terrible pedigree, the film manages to be pretty good for what it is. It has some devent chills and manages to entertain despite all its deficits. And, the ending, while NOT subtle or completely believable IS entertaining!

Easygoing deputy sheriff Jase (an sturdy and engaging performance by David S. Cass Sr.) and spunky anthropologist Leslie (an appealing portrayal by the fetching Irene Kelly) discover that a sinister satanic cult is behind a series of disappearances in a small country town.

Director Frank Q. Dobbs, who also co-wrote the compact script with Cass Sr., relates the engrossing story at a gradual pace, makes nice use of the dry'n'desolate Texas desert locations, takes time to develop the genuinely likeable characters, grounds the premise in a plausible everyday reality, offers a flavorsome evocation of the remote rural area and the people who populate the place, and ably crafts a creepy and unsettling atmosphere. The solid acting by the capable cast helps a lot: Joshua Bryant as laid-back outpost proprietor Glenn, John Martin as an amiable sheriff, Carle Benson as the no-nonsense Doc, William Gonzales as the jolly Paco, and Ed Geldart as amorous jerk Sam. Both the groovy score by Sam Douglas and Michael F. Cusack's expressive cinematography are up to par as well. Recommended viewing for fans of funky 70's low-budget fright fare.