Here are some Devils. Please feel free to join in with the Satan In The Sinema game and add some of your own.
- Emil Jannings in Murnau’s Faust.1926.
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Walter Huston in William Dieterle’s The Devil And Daniel Webster. 1941
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Laird Cregar in Ernst Lubitsch’s Heaven Can Wait. 1943
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQiK0SyCydU
(interesting how all the Second World War Devils are quintessentially jolly fellows)
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Silvia Pinal in Luis Buñuel’s Simon Of The Desert. 1965
(NSFW) Yep. As you always suspected, the Devil is a woman.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeZieaZ00GM -
Viggo Mortensen in Gregory Widen’s The Prophecy. 1995
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPoyezWAghE
AAARGHH! I’d forgotten about one of my favorite film Devils, Peter Cook in Bedazzled! Here’s an interesting thing, a ‘special feature’ in the days before DVD extras.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKAWCVXw01U
And here, Cuddly Dudley get his wish to be a pop star granted, belting out out the desperate ‘Love Me!’ only to be bested by George Spiggot aka The Devil as the lead of Drimble Wedge And the Vegetation. “You fill me with inertia.”
Didn’t want to mention this but there was a remake of this movie, with a woman playing the Devil wearing a red dress and … red shoes!!! Shoes are you ….????
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Not sure if Tim Curry’s Darkness from Legend would count, but you gotta love Curry and that Rob Bottin makeup, even if it’s not one of Ridley Scott’s finest moments.
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Robert de Niro in Angel Heart.
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The Twilight Zone “The Howling Man”
Tim Curry definitely counts! I wish I’d included him but I wanted to put some more obscure devils in for the elucidation of the audience. Robert De Niro was also a candidate but it’s so bloody obvious he’s The Devil. Louis Cypher indeed! I don’t think I’ve seen The Howling Man but I’ll try and rectify that today.
Also, I noticed after I put up the clips that Viggo has borrowed Walter Huston’s crouching. Huston does a lot of crouching in TDADW. If you haven’t seen it, YOU MUST. It’s the only film Bernard Herrmann won an Oscar for and it’s sublime. You may be able to find the whole thing on YouTube.
What ? No Al ? ?!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UjKml8QCWU&t=1m43s
I’ll give you Al. I like him, but he’s ludicrously over the top in this, even by his standards. Still, it’s Al “Hoo Haa!” Pacino who won’t (and can’t) be ignored.
I think another (dis)honorable mention goes to Michael Kitchen in the original tv version of Brimstone And Treacle. This led to me forming a crush on him which just goes to show what a sick, little puppy I am.
I remember liking the remake with Sting:
Sting’s overacting fitted the road.
A good soundtrack by The Police/Last Exit….
Road…?
Role.
The video of the featured song is…interesting….in context.
Peter Stormare as Lucifer in Constantine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rVFse1LLQs
Baphome (or Eddie Powell) as The Devil himself in The Devil Rides Out
Rosalinda Celentano as Satan in Passion of the Christ
Gabriel Byrne as Satan in End of Days
Robert Judd as Scratch in Crossroads
Telly Savalas as The Devil in Lisa and the Devil
Bertrand Altmann as The Devil in Devil Hunter
(mental Jess Franco film but you know … boobies!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L6wMZF6grk
Benjamin Christensen as the Devil (including the famous dancing nuns)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=La1tzPS1R7Q
The Slime as the corporeal embodiment of Satan in Prince of Darkness
The Rain … no, Two Tone Slime … no, maybe it’s Ernest Borgnine,
I don’t know, it’s more mental than that Franco movie but look it’s got William Shatner in it so it’s got to be good … right?
… as the Devil in The Devils Rain.
At least it’s not in Esperanto…
Barack Obama as Satan in The Bible (TV series)
I’d like to balance the large amount of “evil” that has been building up with these posts with an opposite message for “good”
… ehem … here goes;
“Don’t listen to the Devil, he’s a very bad boy,
embrace Cthulhu, Cthulhu loves you, Cthulhu will hug you*”
*warning; there may be slime involved.
Mr Fishman, I take off my horned hat to you. You are a genius.
Why thank you, you’ll have me touching my head to my tail in a minute;
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almost forgot
Old Tom as the Devil in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
“Aah, just one more thing”, as Columbo would say. Whoever was inside the bits and pieces that assembled Satan in Blood On Satan’s Claw. I’m particularly fond of the eyebrows that he/she/it grows on Linda Hayden that make her look like Cara Delevingne. Eyebrows are particularly important to Lucifer. They convey emotion. Not that we see much of that once the thing’s up and shambling around. The film tells us that “Undreamed of methods” are required to get rid of it, but happily those just turn out to be some dogs and a big, wobbly sword.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkWYY2w02m0
How did I ever miss this one….?
I’m sure there must be a Criterion Edition…
and there’s more;
Harvey Keitel – Little Nicky
George Burns – Oh God, You Devi
Jack Nicholson – The Witches of Eastwick
Dave Grohl – Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny
Peter Fonda – Ghost Rider
Jeff Goldblum – Mr. Frost
Gary Oldman – Beat the Devil (short movie)
not sure if these were actually the Devil
Emmanuelle Seigner – The Ninth Gate
Kevin Spacey (as Keyser Söze/the Devil???) – The Usual Suspects
David Warner (as Evil??) – Time Bandits
and a special mention to John Cleese
Alright! Alright! YOU WIN.
🙂 Great post Shoes, I enjoyed that.