Putting Ken Russell and Christianity together in 1971 was bound to create interesting results. So it proved with this disturbingly violent, sexually-charged film based on Aldous Huxley’s The Devils of Loudun and John Whiting’s The Devils. The film gives a dramatised account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century priest executed for witchcraft. Notoriously troublesome for UK censors, The Devils retains its ability to shock and intrigue in equal measure.