# Movies depicting...the DEVIL!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203 "2008-07-03T16:55:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/21 "2008-07-03T18:01:16Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Hurley is the sexier, but otherwise, I preferred Peter Cook’s performance in the [1967 original.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedazzled_%281967_film%29) [/QUOTE] I’ve never seen that… I’ll have to check it out. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/22 "2008-07-03T18:02:44Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose] Harvey Keitel in _Little Nicky_. [/QUOTE] And [Dis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dis_%28Divine_Comedy%29)-honorable mention to Rodney Dangerfield as “Grandpa Lucifer”! “No problem? The last time ya told me that, the Renaissance happened!” ---
**Author:** ![desdinova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@desdinova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desdinova)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/23 "2008-07-03T18:07:47Z")
I liked Max von Sydow in _Needful Things_. Also, that creepy claymation movie _The Adventures of Mark Twain_ has a treatment of “The Mysterious Stranger.” ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/24 "2008-07-03T18:25:36Z")
[QUOTE=want2know] Are we counting TV? Because if we are, we have to add the _Twilight Zone_ episode, “The Howling Man”. [/QUOTE] If so then John Glover from the canceled-before-its-time Fox series [Brimstone](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165564/) would qualify. Not to mention the (special effect) Devil in [5 Million Years to Earth](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062168/). ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/25 "2008-07-03T18:30:36Z")
I liked the portrayal in _Crissroads_. And I think Ray Wise does a fine job on “Reaper.” ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/26 "2008-07-03T18:43:23Z")
Emmanuel Seigner in _The Ninth Gate_. IMDB link: [The Ninth Gate (1999) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142688/) ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/27 "2008-07-03T18:46:44Z")
No love for Ernest Borgnine in “The Devil’s Rain?” As Edward Pinth-Garnell would say when wrapping up “Truely Bad Theater,” “That was truely bad.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/28 "2008-07-03T18:49:47Z")
Laird Cregar in **Heaven Can Wait**. One of the best. On TV, there was Alan Cumming on **God, the Devil, and Bob**. ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/29 "2008-07-03T18:55:48Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] … the Exorcist … [/QUOTE] I was surprised recently to learn that the demon in _The Exorcist_ is not the Devil (Satan/Lucifer, etc.), but an Assyrian-Babylonian demon named Pazuzu. As best as I can tell, they’re completely unrelated entities. Wikipedia links: > **[Pazuzu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazuzu)** > > In ancient Mesopotamian religion, Pazuzu (Akkadian: 𒀭𒅆𒊒𒍪𒍪, romanized: pà.zu.zu) is a demonic deity who was well known to the Babylonians and Assyrians throughout the first millennium BCE. He is shown with "a rather canine face with abnormally bulging eyes, a scaly body, a snake-headed penis, the talons of a bird and usually wings". He was believed to be the son of the god Hanbi. > He was usually regarded as evil, but he could also sometimes be a beneficent entity who protected against winds beari... > **[The Exorcist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist_(film))** > > The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by William Peter Blatty, based on his 1971 novel. The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair, and follows the demonic possession of a young girl and the attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests. > Blatty, who also produced, and Friedkin, his choice as director, had difficulty casting the film. Their choice of relative unknowns Burstyn,... ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/30 "2008-07-03T19:17:39Z")
\*Constantine \* was a… problematic movie, to say the least, but it did feature a brief, wonderful appearence by insane character actor Peter Stormare as Satan. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/31 "2008-07-03T19:18:55Z")
[QUOTE=h.sapiens] [The Devil and Daniel Webster](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033532/) with Walter Huston as “Mr. Scratch” [/QUOTE] Consarne it! You beat me to it. I have that on an old VHS tape. I should watch it again. I remember Old Scratch stealing and eating an entire pie at the end. Pretty good movie. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/32 "2008-07-03T19:21:04Z")
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/33 "2008-07-03T19:59:31Z")
Bruce Payne in [_Switch._](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch_%28film%29) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/34 "2008-07-03T20:01:28Z")
Has there ever been a film or TV adaptation of _Paradise Lost?_ That would be a cool Satan-role! ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/35 "2008-07-03T20:12:15Z")
Beavis & Butthead ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/36 "2008-07-03T20:13:53Z")
Dave Grohl in [Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365830/) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/37 "2008-07-03T20:16:55Z")
[QUOTE=Astroboy14] Best Debil ever: [Bedazzled.](http://thecia.com.au/reviews/b/images/bedazzled-800.jpg) [/QUOTE] That would be, of course, a devil with a bad cold. 😉 I don’t know if you want to count this Tourneur classic, since the baddie is called a “demon” and not Satan himself: [Night of the Demon/A.K.A. Curse of the Demon/A.K.A. Haunted](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050766/). He’s a very nasty piece of work, in any event. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/38 "2008-07-03T20:29:18Z")
Emil Jannings as Mephistopheles in [_Faust_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust_%281926_film%29) (German silent film, 1926). Andreas Teuber as Mephistopheles in [_Doctor Faustus_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Faustus_%281967_film%29) (1967 screen adaptation of [Marlowe’s play](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tragical_History_of_Doctor_Faustus)). ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/39 "2008-07-03T20:49:59Z")
The abysmal Elliott Gould/Bill Cosby vehicle [_The Devil and Max Devlin_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082263/). [_The Devil and Daniel Mouse_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262368/), which is an animated, anthropomorphic animal version of _The Devil and Daniel Webster_. Was the demon in _Horror at 30,000 Feet_ supposed to be Satan or some nameless minion demon? ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203/40 "2008-07-03T20:51:17Z")
Billy Zane played a pretty nasty and disturbingly blase Devil figure called “The Collector” in the Tales from the Crypt Movie [Demon Knight](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114608/). Billy always does well with the crazy bad guys. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-depicting-the-devil/455203.md?page=3)