Ken Russell's THE DEVILS (4K Restoration)

17th century France, and a charismatic, defiant priest named Urbain Grandier stands in the way of a ruthless cardinal determined to tear down the walls of Loudun. When a sexually repressed, hunchbacked nun becomes consumed by an obsessive fixation on Grandier, her fevered visions spiral into mass hysteria, and the entire convent descends into writhing, screaming possession. What begins as one woman's private torment becomes a full blown witch hunt, one that will burn a man alive for daring to hold onto his own conscience.

Banned, butchered, and buried for over fifty years, Ken Russell's The Devils has finally been restored to the filmmaker's original, uncensored vision, reconstructed from the original camera negative using the private cut Russell himself assembled in 2004. Starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave at their most ferocious, this hallucinatory, blasphemous, wildly operatic descent into religious hysteria and political corruption remains one of the most controversial films ever released by a major studio, and one of the most electrifying. See the film Guillermo del Toro calls a masterwork exactly as Russell intended, on the big screen, uncut, for the first time.

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