Table of Contents

Introduction: Giving the Devil His Due
Regina M. Hansen and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock | 1
The Sign of the Cross: Georges Méliès and Early Satanic Cinema
Russ Hunter | 15
Murnau’s Faust and the Weimar Moment
Barry C. Knowlton and Eloise R. Knowlton | 27
Disney’s Devils
J. P. Telotte | 42
What’s the Deal with the Devil? The Comedic Devil in Four Films
Katherine A. Fowkes | 58
His Father’s Eyes: Rosemary''s Baby
David Sterritt | 71
From the Eternal Sea He Rises, Creating Armies on Either Shore:
The Antichristology of the Omen Franchise
R. Barton Palmer | 86
The Weird Devil: Lovecraftian Horror in John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness
Carl H. Sederholm | 103
Narration and Damnation in Angel Heart
Murray Leeder | 120
The Devil’s in the Details: Devilish Desire and Roman Polanski’s The Ninth Gate
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock | 136
Agency or Allowance:
The Satanic Complications of Female Autonomy in The Witches of Eastwick and The Witch
Simon Bacon | 149
“Roaming the Earth”: Satan in The Last Temptation of Christ and The Passion of the Christ
Catherine O’Brien | 161
Lucifer, Gabriel, and the Angelic Will in The Prophecy and Constantine
Regina M. Hansen | 178
Advocating for Satan: The Parousia-Inspired Horror Genre
David Hauka | 191
List of Contributors | 207
Index | 211

About the Author

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Edited By)
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is professor of English at Central Michigan University and an associate editor of the Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts. He has authored or edited twenty-four books, the most recent of which are The Monster Theory Reader (2019), Critical Approaches to Welcome to Night Vale: Podcasting Between Weather and the Void (2018), The Cambridge Companion to American Gothic (2018), and The Age of Lovecraft (2016). Visit him at JeffreyAndrewWeinstock.com.
Regina M. Hansen (Edited By)
Regina M. Hansen teaches at Boston University. She publishes and presents on horror, religion in film, neo-Victorianism, and the fantastic. Her works include the edited volumes Supernatural, Humanity and the Soul (with Susan George; 2014) and Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film, and a special Stephen King issue of Science Fiction Film and Television (with Simon Brown; 2017), along with the novel The Coming Storm (Atheneum 2021). Her writing on film, folklore, and the supernatural has appeared in the Wall Street Journal Review and the children’s magazine Dig Into History.

Reviews

Hansen and Weinstock have collected (a lucky) thirteen new essays exploring the Devil's cinematic avatars, from his earliest appearances in the films of George Méliès to the deliciously-living Black Phillip in The Witch (2015). Including discussions of generically-diverse films like Faust (1926), Prince of Darkness (1987), and The Passion of the Christ (2004), this volume will be of interest to theologians and film scholars alike.---Harry M. Benshoff, Professor of Media Arts, University of North Texas