Just watched Blue Blood, a film from 1974 with Oliver Reed.  Not recommended, a poor film with poor acting, but imdb.com states under "trivia" that in Italy it was promoted as a sequel to The Devils.

Other than Oliver Reed there is no connection, it is more like a poor copy of The Servant with Dirk Bogart with supernatural elements added, not very convincingly, Hammer Horror style.

Final thoughts

Who and why did they green lit this film? Despite all the talent involved, certainly, they must have realized this, from the script, would never fly, but crash and burn. And if it was approved without a script, it goes to show that most films should not be approved without a workable script being available.

How disappointed everyone must have been. Ken comes off one of his best films in Tommy only to go into one of his worst films in this.

If a director has a bad film, it comes early in their career, when they are still somewhat inexperienced or later in their career. If one looks at what is considered Ken's best and worst films, he has a long "later in their career." For while he would continue to make films for another 3 decades, his last good film is considered to be Tommy, which he made back in 1975.

I'm not yet sure if I can make it.

A list by Grunge:

• Cannibal Holocaust- not very well filmed and pretty bad
• The Birth of a Nation- a classic film, but the Ku Klux Klan coming to save the women from the negroes is hard to take
• The Last House on the Left- Wes Craven, and a reasonable film
• Natural Born Killers- Oliver Stone with a Tarantino script, beautifully filmed.  When the vioence starts to become too much it switches to cartoon format
• A Serbian Film- I don't know it
• The Last Temptation of Christ- Martin Scorsese.  A good film but not one I would particularly be interested in seeing again, unlike other Scorsese films
• The Human Centipede II- I hope never to see this again (or I or III)
• Lifr of Brian- Monty Python and only mildly controversial
• Song of the South- I don't know it
• and top of the list- The Devils.  An interesting quote from the article "Desperate to calm the reaction, the studio ordered countless cuts to the already expensive movie, slicing out so many key sequences that few people today have ever seen the original cut. However, various versions of the film have survived, going on to inspire contemporary filmmakers like Guillermo Del Toro and Joe Dante"

The article is here
http://www.grunge.com/88465/controversial-movies-time/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_2175076&utm_content=3

Deptford Cinema have a full day devoted to Ken on 26 May 2018.  There will be two films, Gothic and Altered States.

Stephen Volk, who wrote the Gothic screenplay will give a Q&A session, and Altered States will be introduced and discussed by Dr Matt Melia, Senior Lecturer in film and television at Kingston University.  The day will also include "a Ken Russell Quiz, prizes and other surprises and treats (to be revealed)".

Details are here
http://deptfordcinema.org/new-events/2018/5/26/ken-russell-day

A little far for me to go, but is anybody planning on attending? If so, it'd be nice to get a report on the event from someone who was there.