# Your Own Personal Tempter: Best & Worst Satans **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2005, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-tempter-best-worst-satans/291425 "2005-02-22T22:38:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-tempter-best-worst-satans/291425/41 "2005-02-24T14:00:18Z")
> [@rocking chair](#): > > robert redford, twilight zone. Redford was Death, not the Devil. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-tempter-best-worst-satans/291425/42 "2005-02-24T14:40:26Z")
> [@moonstarssun](#): > > Another vote for Viggo Mortenson in _The Prophecy_. When Satan told Thomas that he was, in fact, under the bed, was I the only person who’s first reaction was, “I _knew_ it!” Viggo had the right amount of creepiness and malevolence in The Prophecy. He would not have been nearly as effective had he been used more. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-tempter-best-worst-satans/291425/43 "2005-02-24T14:49:26Z")
> [@lisacurl](#): > > Viggo Mortensen was a vicious and very pretty Lucifer in _The Prophecy_. Alas, it was a very small role. “Oh my God!” “God is love. I don’t love you.” Positively brilliant. I just ordered that movie on DVD from Amazon. I can’t wait until I get it. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-tempter-best-worst-satans/291425/44 "2005-02-24T16:17:27Z")
He nailed so much of his initial scene with Virginia Madsen, but this was the best: “Humans… and how I love you talking monkeys for this… know more about war and treachery of the spirit than any angel.” ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-tempter-best-worst-satans/291425/45 "2005-02-24T17:12:51Z")
I bet none of you have seen the low-budget comic book adaptation _G-Men From Hell_, which starred Vegas lounge lizard Robert Goulet as Satan. He was a very typical depiction with red skin, horns, and jet-black hair with a pointy goatee, elegant in a suit, of course. The lowbrow/“trash” artist Coop often draws the Devil that way, except greasier-looking, and usually surrounded by plenty of voluptuous red-skinned, horned, _horny_ succubi. Tim Curry as “The Darkness” in the otherwise-deplorable _Legend_ was pretty awesome, though. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-tempter-best-worst-satans/291425/46 "2005-02-25T05:05:49Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Flagg is more Antichrist (Son of Satan) than Satan, IMHO, but Sheridan was good. Perhaps in the novel. In the miniseries, Flagg definitely seemed closer to the Big Kahuna himself. Especially in the exchange: Flagg: “Pleased to meet you, Lloyd. Hope you guess my name!” Lloyd: “Huh?” Flagg: “Oh, nothing. Just a classical reference.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-tempter-best-worst-satans/291425/47 "2005-02-25T06:52:06Z")
While he wasn’t Satan, I _LOVED_ Hinton Battle’s satanic song/dance demon on the Buffy musical (“Once More With Feeling”). He should have gotten an Emmy. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-tempter-best-worst-satans/291425/48 "2005-02-25T16:10:56Z")
I admit, I’m very partial to Elizabeth Hurley’s portrayal in the remake of ‘Bedazzled’. Especially [spoiler]that shot in the denouement with God and she playing chess and watching the two love interests walk off together. Then, when God is distracted, she tries to move the pieces out of turn and he spats her hand. The laugh she puts on is just brilliant. Frankly, if there HAS to be a God/Devil thing I’d prefer that it’s all just fun and games to keep the infinite occupied than a war between good and evil.[/spoiler] And no one has tossed out Daniel von Bargen who portrayed Satan in ‘O Brother Where Art Thou?’ ‘You can’t do this! It ain’t the law!’ ‘The _LAW_? The law is a **human** institution.’ ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-tempter-best-worst-satans/291425/49 "2005-03-01T02:24:41Z")
I like the way CS Lewis portrayed him in Perelandra. Very creepy, and also different from the other portrayals I’ve seen. When he’s trying to tempt the woman, he is the gentleman that he’s commonly portrayed as. But… when she’s not around, he acts like a mentally retarded person. He does obscene things with his body and is just disgusting and stupid in general. The reason, according to the narrator, is that since being intelligent and classy is a good thing, Satan avoids both unless it serves as a means to an end, like impressing the woman so he can tempt her. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-tempter-best-worst-satans/291425/50 "2005-03-01T02:31:19Z")
I love the Master Thespian (Jon Jovitz), but I have to second rjung’s vote for Ned Flanders. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-tempter-best-worst-satans/291425/51 "2005-03-01T03:37:03Z")
**Flipstrip and BrotherCadfael** Great Minds Think Alike 😃 When I clicked on this thread, the first thing I did was do a page search for “Julie”. Yes her role as Ms Devlin in that “Twilight Zone” episode (“Of Late I Think OF Cliffordville”) was teriffic!! She played it with a nice mixture of sinister sinfullness and smoldering sexuality. ---
**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:** [March 1, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-tempter-best-worst-satans/291425/52 "2005-03-01T04:02:26Z")
Oh, my…nobody’s mentioned Bill Cosby’s turn as Satan in Disney’s 1981 crapfest, _[The Devil and Max Devlin](http://imdb.com/title/tt0082263/)_? In one scene, he’s in some sort of evil witch doctor outfit screaming at Elliott Gould! Horrible. Absolutely horrible. Almost as bad as _Leonard, Part Six_ and _Ghost Dad_. Seriously. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-own-personal-tempter-best-worst-satans/291425.md?page=2)