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6 Disturbing Portrayals Of Satan In Film

If I were to bring up the devil to you, how would you envision it? Would you imagine a creature, bent at the spine and fiery red with a forked tongue? Would you imagine some massive, hulking beast, dwelling in a boiling pit of human souls, gorging himself on them and shitting them out only to eat them again? Or maybe you would see Satan as the scariest thing of all: human. Maybe you just imagine the devil as one of us, walking among us, laughing that we don't know he or she is there. Or maybe you are one of those people who just laugh at the thought of imaginary deities that are created to keep us in line.

Jack Nicholson In The Witches of Eastwick

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Jack Nicholson as the devil just makes sense. We saw brief glimpses of that in The Shining, and knew he had the capacity to fully throw himself into any character he played. But Nicholson plays it a lot like Pacino (technically, Pacino played it a lot like Nicholson, who did it first chronologically) in the sense that he starts off in The Witches of Eastwick as a seductive, cool, captivating man who gets what he wants, no matter what.

But by the end of the film, we see him regress more and more into the creature we see above. Again, an incredible actor was given an incredible speech to allow his true inner devil to shine through. One thing you can say about devil portrayals on film is that they always get the BEST monologues.

So remember kids, Satan is bad and God is good, but if you want stuff, you call on the first guy.

*Please note that this site does not endorse the worshipping of Satan to achieve great riches.

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