Posted by: Iain Fisher
« on: March 23, 2026, 09:17:40 PM »The Globe Cinema in Calgary present Ken Russell’s The Devils on 3- 12 April 2026.
“The most controversial film of the 1970s was banned across the world for its deliriously overheated, shockingly blasphemous tale of sexual frenzy and demonic possession in a seventeenth-century French convent. Based on Aldous Huxley’s novel The Devils of Loudun and John Whiting’s play The Devils, Ken Russell’s X-rated spectacle of the depraved stars Vanessa Redgrave as a hunchbacked nun whose lust for priest Father Grandier (Oliver Reed) sets off a perverse witch hunt and unleashes an orgy of sadomasochistic sacrilege”.
I'm not sure about the cinema's description -deliriously overheated, spectacle of the depraved etc, but the film is good.
For the cinema website click here
https://globecinema.ca/
For more on The Devils click here
https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-the-devils.html
“The most controversial film of the 1970s was banned across the world for its deliriously overheated, shockingly blasphemous tale of sexual frenzy and demonic possession in a seventeenth-century French convent. Based on Aldous Huxley’s novel The Devils of Loudun and John Whiting’s play The Devils, Ken Russell’s X-rated spectacle of the depraved stars Vanessa Redgrave as a hunchbacked nun whose lust for priest Father Grandier (Oliver Reed) sets off a perverse witch hunt and unleashes an orgy of sadomasochistic sacrilege”.
I'm not sure about the cinema's description -deliriously overheated, spectacle of the depraved etc, but the film is good.
For the cinema website click here
https://globecinema.ca/
For more on The Devils click here
https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-the-devils.html