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The Devils Was Censored 55 Years Ago. Now It's Back, and Its Political Warning Still Holds. 

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The Devils Was Censored 55 Years Ago. Now It's Back, and Its Political Warning Still Holds. 
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I did not initially want to see the re-release of Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. As the critic Armond White pointed out, Warner Bros. somewhat deceptively marketed the film as a subversive horror movie, "promising steady, anti-Christian jolts and atrocities." Based on the film's trailer alone, one might believe that The Devils is truly about demonic forces possessing a convent of nuns. If this were the case, I would have had little interest in paying for a ticket and would have opted to av

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