This Day in Halloween: Hammer's folk horror classic "The Devil Rides Out" -- starring Christopher Lee -- opens in the U.K. in 1968. / Illustration by Laura Peyton Maurer
The Devil Rides Out opens in the U.K. in 1968. Written by Richard Matheson and directed by Terence Fisher, the film features Christopher Lee in a rare good-guy role in a Hammer film, where he battles devil worshippers on Salisbury Plain. It would open in the U.S. as The Devil’s Bride in December.
