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70 The Devil’s Bride
John Milton, who smirkingly remarks to the audience,
“Pride, one of my favorite sins.”
—Evelyn Oliver
The Devil’s Bride
This 1968 movie is Hammer Studios film adaptation
of Dennis Wheatley’s most celebrated “black
magic” novel, The Devil Rides Out. It features,
unsurprisingly, a Satanist devil-worshiping cult.
This is considered by many to be Hammer’s best
work.
Devil’s Daughter
In the 1991 film Devil’s Daughter, the entrance to
hell is none other than the basement of a German
tenement. The filmmaker uses a scant story line
about Satanists looking forward to the birth of the
Nameless One’s baby as an excuse to provide only
the sickest of moviegoers with 112 minutes of
human sacrifice and torture. The film is sadistically
graphic, with realistic horror scenes of gruesome
dismemberments and slashings. The worst
of the hideous scenes is the tearing off of a
woman’s face. The moviemaker must have
confused the word Satanist with sadist.
Devil’s Eye
A clever and entertaining 1960 movie directed by
the famous Swedish film director, Ingmar
Bergman. Satan has failed several times to get the
beautiful daughter of a conservative minister to
lose her virginity, which threatens the loss of his
evil reputation. So Satan sends Don Juan to seduce
her. The girl, however, finds his antiquated romantic
way of speaking absurd, and she laughingly
rebukes this seduction as well. For Satan, this
rejection is worse than hell itself.
The Devil’s Hand
An artist purchases what he thinks is a “lucky
hand” in this 1945 film, unaware that it belongs to
the Prince of Darkness. Satan requires that he
resell the hand before twenty-four hours are up, or
he will be sent directly to the hot place.
The Devil’s Messenger
The Devil’s Messenger was made from three badly
executed television episodes that failed due to
poor acting and lack of continuity. The plot was
for Satan to leave hell and take over the world. The
plot was foiled.
The Devil’s Partner
An elderly Satan worshiper passes away, but then
comes back as a young man in this 1958 film. Not
one to give up old habits easily, he picks up where
he left off, casting spells and conducting dark
rituals.
The Devil’s Rain
A cult of Satan worshipers wander the desert of
the Old Western looking for the portal to the
underworld and a sacred Satanic book that
contains names of the disciples of Satan. John
Travolta is one of the ghouls that stalks William
Shatner’s quest to return the sacred book to the
group. Anton LaVey, founder of the Church of
Satan, was a technical advisor for this 1975 film.
The Devil’s Son-in-Law
A 1997 comedy about an aspiring nightclub
performer who makes a deal with the Devil to
marry his daughter after he becomes a star. Given
a magic cane, the performer not only becomes a
big star, but is able to put all his rival acts out of
business. When the Devil demands payment in the
form of marrying his old hag of a daughter and
making a baby with her, the performer disappears.
The minions from hell find him and return him to
the “down under.” As the movie ends, he is driving
off in the limo that says, Just Married.
Devil’s Triangle
The Devil’s triangle—also known as the Bermuda
triangle—is a watery area whose boundaries are
Florida, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. In an
Associated Press article on September 16, 1950,
reporter E. V. W. Jones wrote that ships were
disappearing mysteriously between Florida and