From exclusive interviews with director Ken Russell and new interviews with cast, crew, and historians, comes this examination of the beautifully blasphemous film The Devils. Based on historical fact, this controversial 1971 film is about an oversexed priest and a group of sexually repressed nuns in 17th-century France and the ensuing trials and exorcisms that followed. Details the production and the personalities of two of cinema's great eccentrics, director Ken Russell and star Oliver Reed, as well as the film's reception and legacy.