Wikipedia

Deals with the Devil in popular culture

The idea of making a deal with the devil has appeared many times in works of popular culture. These pacts with the Devil can be found in many genres, including: books, music, comics, theater, movies, TV shows and games. When it comes to making a contract with the Devil, they all share the same prevailing desire, a mortal wants some worldly good for their own selfish gain, but in exchange, they must give up their soul for eternity.

Christoph Haizmann’s 1677-78 votive painting (triptych). Left: Satan appears as a fine burgher, and Haizmann signs a pact with ink. Right: The devil reappears a year later and forces Haizmann to sign another pact with his own blood. Middle: The Virgin Mary makes the devil to return the second pact during an exorcism.

Generally when Satan is depicted in these works, he is represented as a red-skinned man with horns or pointed ears on his head, hooves or bird-legs, a forked tail or one with a stinger, and a pitchfork. When trying to blend in or deceive somebody, often he is represented as a plain human being, and, in some instances, only his voice is heard.

The theme enjoyed a large run of popularity in the 20th century. At one point Anthony Boucher, editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, "reported that fully 50 percent of his unsolicited submissions consisted of deal-with-the-devil stories or 'formalities of the hereafter', which as often as not involved the Devil".[1]

In print edit

Comic books
Novels and short stories
 
Polish folklore legend Pan Twardowski and the devil by Michał Elwiro Andriolli
Poems

In film edit

  • American Satan (2017): An aspiring rock band who all drop out of college and move to Los Angeles to try to become famous.[48]
  • Angel Heart (1987): The Devil tries to claim the soul he was promised by a man whose attempt to escape his deal resulted in him losing his memory.[49]
  • Angel on My Shoulder (1946). "Nick" offers gangster Eddie Kagle, freshly arrived in Hell, the opportunity to get revenge on his killer in exchange for taking the place of an honest judge (who looks exactly like Eddie) and discrediting him. However, things do not turn out the way Nick wants.
  • Bedazzled (1967): The main character exchanges his soul for seven wishes, each of which leads to disaster, only for him to escape the deal when the Devil spares him out of pity.[49]
    • Bedazzled (2000), a remake of the aforementioned 1967 original, the main character making a different set of wishes that end when he uses his seventh and final wish to make an unselfish wish that negates his deal.[49]
  • Belladonna (1973), a film inspired by 19th century perceptions of medieval witchcraft; centres on a woman's pact with the Devil.[50]
  • Constantine (2004): Having informed Satan of his son's attempted coup of Hell, Constantine asks Satan to repay their debt by releasing Isabel, the twin sister of Constantine's ally Angela, rather than simply asking Satan to bring him back to life. Satan's desire for Constantine's soul is thwarted by the realization that Constantine's self-sacrifice has earned him a place in Heaven, prompting Satan to allow Constantine's resurrection so that Constantine can have another chance to fall.[49]
  • Crossroads (1986): A young man attempts to investigate Robert Johnson's legend.[51]
  • The Day of the Beast (1995): A priest attempts to sell his soul to the Devil so that he can be there for the birth of the Antichrist so he can kill him.
  • The Devil's Advocate (1997): A Florida attorney begins working for a law firm that is run by the Devil.[49]
  • The Devil and Max Devlin (1981): A crooked landlord, now deceased and in Hell, is offered redemption by the Devil if he succeeds in getting three others to forfeit their souls in exchange for his own.[52]
  • End of Days (1999): Satan offers to bring back the murdered family of ex-police officer Jericho Cane in exchange for information on a woman he is looking for.[53]
  • Faust (1994): Mixed live-action and animation, directed by Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer.[54]
  • Faust: Love of the Damned (2000): A man sells his soul in order to get revenge on his girlfriend's killers, only to be turned into a demon in exchange.[55]
  • Ghost Rider (2007): A young stunt rider sells his soul to the interdimensional demon Mephisto to cure his father's cancer. As with Faust, Mephisto takes liberties with his end of the bargain, the stunt rider's father surviving his cancer only to die in an accident after performing his final stunt.[49]
  • Heartless (2009): Jamie Morgan makes a deal with Pappa B to have his birthmarks removed and to live a normal life; in return he is suddenly informed that the terms of the deal can change whenever Pappa B wishes it.[56]
  • H-E Double Hockey Sticks (1999): A demon-in-training convinces a rising hockey star to sell him his soul for the Stanley Cup.[57]
  • The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009): Doctor Parnassus, a prominent storyteller, makes a deal with the Devil that allows him to keep telling his stories, unaware that the world will lose interest in his narrative style.[49]
  • The Mephisto Waltz (1971): People transfer their personalities from one body to another with Satan's help, each such change "paid for" by committing a murder.[58]
  • Needful Things (1993), based on Stephen King's 1991 novel of the same name.[49]
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000): A trio of chain gang escapees in Depression-era Mississippi encounter a black youth named Tommy Johnson, who claims to have sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for being able to play the guitar.[49]
  • Pact with the Devil (2004): A modern retelling of the Oscar Wilde novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
  • The Phantom of the Opera (1989): Erik Destler makes a deal by selling his soul to the Devil in exchange for the world loving him for his music, but the deal comes with a price: a hideously disfigured face.[59]
  • Phantom of the Paradise (1974): Swan makes a pact with the Devil to remain youthful forever, with photos aging and festering in his place.[49]
  • Poor Devil (1973), a TV movie about a minor devil (Sammy Davis Jr.) trying to get the soul of a department store worker (Jack Klugman) on orders from Lucifer (Christopher Lee).[60]
  • Rosemary's Baby (1968): Guy Woodhouse offers his wife Rosemary to the Devil for wealth and success, resulting in the birth of the Antichrist.[49]
  • Satan Triumphant (Russian: Сатана ликующий, translit. Satana likuyushchiy) (1917) Pastor Talnoх urges the flock to fight temptations, but he falls victim to temptation himself. Satan appears, pushing him to theft and a spiritual fall.[61]
  • Shortcut to Happiness (2007): A modern film adaptation of the short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster".[62]
  • Sleepy Hollow (1999): Lady van Tassel pledges her soul to Satan and becomes a witch. At the movie's climax, the Headless Horseman takes her into the Underworld to fulfill her end of the deal.[63]
  • Spawn (1997): A military soldier/assassin named Al Simmons sells his soul to a demon warlord named Malebolgia to become his eternal servant and leader of his army in Armageddon, in order to return to Earth to see his beloved fiancé, Wanda Blake.
  • The Temptation of Barbizon (French: La Tentatio)
  • Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (2006): A rock group quests for a guitar pick that was once a tooth belonging to Satan, and which it is implied that all rock legends used to achieve their legendary status.[49]
  • The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989): The Toxic Avenger makes a deal with the Devil in order to get money for the eye operation for his blind girlfriend, Claire.
  • Vox Lux (2018): In the final scene, the narrator reveals that the main character, Celeste, made a deal with the Devil in order to both survive a school shooting and attain pop superstardom. Whether this should be read as literal truth or simply something Celeste herself believes to be true is left ambiguous.
  • The Witch (2015): Thomasin signs her name in the Devil's book so that she can join a murderous coven of witches.[49]

In music edit

 
Illustration of the legend behind Giuseppe Tartini's "Devil's Trill Sonata"

Deals with the devil in music has been a constant figure in many genres, from classical music to heavy metal.[64]

Operas

In television edit

Animation
  • American Dad!, in the episode "Permanent Record Wrecker", Roger makes a Faustian bargain with an infomercial star to learn to play guitar, in order to beat a hippie in a guitar challenge at his favorite coffee shop.[86]
  • Archer, in the episode "Baby Shower", Sterling Archer refers to Kenny Loggins as a "possible Faustian deal-maker".[87]
  • The Devil and Daniel Mouse, a Canadian animated Halloween TV special based on the Washington Irving short story.[88]
  • Futurama, in the episode "Hell is Other Robots", Bender is sent to Robot Hell for his sins. Fry and Leela enter Robot Hell to save him, where the Robot Devil tells them that the only way to win back Bender's soul is to beat him in a musical contest.[89] In the episode "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings", Fry makes a deal with the Robot Devil so that Fry can play the holophonor and show his love for Leela.[90] In the episode "Calculon 2.0" sees Fry and Bender make another deal with the Robot Devil to resurrect Calculon, their favourite actor, but the Robot Devil deliberately lets them win the deal, as he is annoyed at Calculon's overly-dramatic nature.[91]
  • Gravity Falls, in the episode Sock Opera, Dipper Pines makes a deal with Bill Cipher, a dream demon, and is tricked into exchanging his physical being for a secret password to a mysterious laptop.[92]
  • Metalocalypse, in the episode "Bluesklok", the band is told to make a deal with the devil to get blues-playing skills.[93]
  • The Muppet Show, in a Halloween episode that featured Alice Cooper playing an assistant to the devil, Cooper attempts to sell the Muppets a contract that promises "fabulous riches and worldwide fame" in exchange for their souls. Of course, Miss Piggy was most receptive to this Faustian deal.[94]
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica and its adaptations contain many allusions to Goethe's Faust as the central motif of the series is the protagonists' "contracts" with the devil-like figure Kyuubey.[95]
  • The Simpsons, in the Halloween episode "Treehouse of Horror IV", Homer makes a deal with the devil (who ironically turns out to be his devout Christian neighbour Ned Flanders) to sell his soul for a doughnut.[13] In the episode "Bart Sells His Soul", Bart sells his soul to Milhouse for $5.00 when he believes that it is worthless by writing down "BART SIMPSON'S SOUL" on a piece of his church's stationery. He has a change of heart after he experiences abnormal changes in his everyday life, and spends the episode searching for it. Milhouse had sold Bart's soul to Comic Book Guy, who in turn sold it to Lisa, who bought it to return to Bart. When it is returned, he eats the paper to have his soul return to him.[96]
Live action
  • 666 Park Avenue, ABC TV series; portrays many pacts resembling deals with the devil.[97][98]
  • Brimstone, Fox TV series; Ezekiel Stone, a police detective who was killed and sent to Hell for murdering his wife's rapist makes a deal with the devil to recapture escaped sinners from Hell in return for which he will be allowed a second chance at life.[99]
  • Charmed, in the episode "Soul Survivor", Paige helps a businessman who sold his soul to a demon in exchange for success;[100] the first-season episode "The Wedding from Hell" sees a rich woman forced to deal with the consequences of a deal she made two decades ago when a powerful demon seeks to marry her eldest son and conceive a demonic child.[101]
  • The Collector, Canadian TV series about a former monk who sold his soul to the devil in the 14th century.[102]
  • Friday the 13th: The Series, Lewis Vendredi made a deal with the devil to sell cursed antiques. When he broke the pact, the devil killed him and claimed his soul, leaving his niece Micki Foster and her cousin Ryan Dallion to find the cursed antiques and lock them away in the store's vault in order to neutralize their evil powers.[103]
  • G vs E, the first season on the USA Network, the second season switched to the Sci-Fi Channel; featured several people who made deals with the forces of evil. These people were known collectively as "Faustians".[104]
  • Inside No. 9, in the episode "How Do You Plead?", Derek Jacobi plays Webster (named after the lead in The Devil and Daniel Webster), a dying barrister who, it is revealed, sold his soul when he was younger to Mephistopheles to gain a successful career in the law. When Mephistopheles (Steve Pemberton), appearing as the lift attendant to his apartment, comes to claim Webster's soul, Webster tries to get out of it by offering up instead the brighter soul of his kindly nurse Urban Bedford (Reece Shearsmith, named after Urbain Grandier), but Webster is foiled at the very end when Bedford reveals that, in his youth, he was a school bully who killed a fellow student for fun, and thus Webster is sent down to Hell via the lift.[105][106]
  • Kamen Rider Revice explicitly portrays this in the form of inner demons that are brought out from people making contracts through a device called the Vistamp.[107] The term itself is also used as part of the opening theme's lyrics.
  • The Monkees, in the episode "The Devil and Peter Tork", Tork comes across an ornate harp in a pawn shop. The proprietor of the shop, Mr. Zero (actually the devil), allows him to take the harp home and pay for it later, so long as he signs a mysterious contract. The other Monkees engage in a court battle to save Peter's soul and convince the devil that Peter does not need magic to play the harp.[108]
  • Reaper is about a young man, Sam Oliver, whose parents made a deal with the devil to save the father from a serious illness in exchange for the soul of their firstborn child. Oliver must now work as Satan's bounty hunter, or his mother's soul is forfeit.[109]
  • Saturday Night Live (season 12), (1986) hosted by Rosanna Arquette, (skit "The Beautician and the Beast"), Judge Wopner hears the case brought against Mr. Mephistopheles by beautician Vonda Braithewaite, who exchanged her soul for success in the hairdressing industry.[13]
  • Saturday Night Live (season 25), (1999) hosted by Garth Brooks, Brooks plays an average songwriter, who muses out loud that he would sell his soul to the devil for a hit tune. Will Ferrell, as a guitar-wielding devil, appears in a puff of smoke and they strike a deal.[13]
  • Sleepy Hollow (season 4), Malcolm Dreyfuss is revealed to have sold his soul to the devil after he drunk-drove his car into a tree and it went up in flames. Ichabod Crane also makes his own deal with the devil to defeat Dreyfuss, but expresses confidence that his allies will be able to help him find a way out of the deal.[110][111]
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the episode "Devil's Due", an alien planet's population had made an agreement with the devil, whereby their world's problems would be solved and they would have peace and prosperity for 1,000 years in exchange for their servitude.[13]
  • Super Bowl commercial (2013), features Willem Dafoe as the devil tempting a young man to make a deal in exchange for a Mercedes-Benz.[112]
  • Supernatural features Crossroad Demons, who can be summoned by burying a box containing key items at crossroads, subsequently making a deal with the summoner where the demon will grant any request in exchange for the summoner's souls in 10 years' time.[13]
  • Trick or Treat, members of the public must sign a Faustian pact with Derren Brown and participate in a macabre game of Trick or Treat.[113]
  • The Twilight Zone, in the episode "Escape Clause", David Wayne bargains his soul in exchange for immortality and winds up sentenced to life in prison.[13]
  • The Twilight Zone, in the episode ("Printer's Devil"), a small town newspaper editor (Robert Sterling) makes a deal with the devil (Burgess Meredith) where everything he writes on the linotype machine comes true in order to boost circulation and save the newspaper from going out of business.[114]
  • Hazbin Hotel shows how some characters sold their souls to powerful demons to regain respectability, power and fame, at the price of their freedom though.

In games edit

  • The Binding of Isaac, the player can sell health to the devil in exchange for other in-game benefits in "Devil Rooms".[115]
  • Cuphead, the main characters lose a bet with the devil and owe him their souls. They make a different deal with the devil, where they can get out of losing their souls by collecting the souls of various monsters scattered around the map. Those monsters presumably owe their souls to the devil by some other means.[116]
  • Devil Maker: Tokyo, an anime-inspired role-playing card battle adventure set in Tokyo. The player's role in the game is a contractor – a person that has the capability to form contracts with devils to use them in a journey to bring light to the world.[117][118]
  • Guacamelee!, the primary antagonist Carlos Calaca, who was once a rodeo rider, broke his arm just before a competition, and then sold his soul to the Devil in order to have it healed before the competition, but right after winning, the Devil enacts his payment and drags him to hell.[119][120]
  • Magic: The Gathering features a powerful sorceress named Liliana Vess, who makes deals with numerous devils and demons in exchange for eternal youth as well as dark knowledge. After acquiring the power of the Chain Veil, however, she finds herself on a quest to free herself of these contracts.[121][122]
  • Soul series, Siegfried Schtauffen made a deal with the demonic sword Soul Edge for power and the ability to avenge his father's death, resulting in Soul Edge possessing him and turning him into the dark knight Nightmare. One of Siegfried's weapons is named Faust in reference to this story element.[123]
  • Tekken series, Kazuya Mishima makes a deal with the devil in order to obtain enough power to defeat his ruthless father, Heihachi. This deal has dire consequences, as it strips Kazuya of all the good within him, gives him a Devil Gene, and passes a Devil Gene onto his son, Jin Kazama, whose influence with the devil has made him into the main antagonist of Tekken 6.[124]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Joshi, S. T. (2007). "The Devil". Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares. Schweitzer, Darrell. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 161–186. ISBN 978-0-313-33781-9.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Stevens, Tim (February 6, 2019). "6 Historic Deals with the Devil". Marvel Entertainment. Archived from the original on September 28, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Bailey, Caleb (September 9, 2019). "Marvel: Every Time A Hero Made A Deal With Mephisto". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on September 23, 2019. The Devil of the Marvel Universe, Mephisto has crossed paths and shaken hands with heroes like Dr.Strange and Spider-Man. Here's every deal he made.
  4. ^ Oba, Tsugumi (2005). Death Note Vol. 1 - Boredom. San Francisco: Viz Media. p. 18. ISBN 1-4215-0168-6.
  5. ^ Lord Dragon Master (July 26, 2008). "Demon Candy Issue 1". pp. 1–14 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ Wolf, Ian (March 10, 2012). "Interview with "Lord Dragon Master", creator of Demon Candy: Parallel". Anime UK News.
  7. ^ Stoye, Grant (February 26, 2020). "John Constantine's 10 Best Comic Quotes Of All Time, Ranked". Comic Book Resources.
  8. ^ Rose, Vanessa (April 18, 2020). "10 Black Butler Memes Only True Fans Will Understand". Comic Book Resources.
  9. ^ "Team Fortress 2". Team Fortress #6 - The Naked and the Dead. January 10, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2022.
  10. ^ Ashliman, D. L. (August 8, 2020). "Bearskin, and other tales of type 361". University of Pittsburgh.
  11. ^ a b c d Brocca, Josue (November 19, 2019). "The Consequences Of Making A Deal With The Devil In 6 Books". Cultura Colectiva.
  12. ^ Rafferty, Terrence (October 18, 2013). "The Shortlist: Horror". The New York Times.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g McNeill, Brian (July 26, 2012). "Dealing with the Devil: Professor Explores Contracts with the Prince of Darkness in Popular Culture". University of Virginia School of Law. Archived from the original on May 11, 2019. Retrieved January 11, 2021.
  14. ^ "The Devil and Tom Walker". Encyclopedia.com.
  15. ^ Wells, Chamberlin "Jacques Cazotte" in Supernatural Fiction Writers, edited by E. F. Bleiler. New York: Scribner's, 1985, ISBN 0-684-17808-7 (pp.29-35).
  16. ^ Carr, John Dickson (2014). The Devil in Velvet. Open Road Media. ISBN 978-1-4976-7076-1.
  17. ^ Vieira, Nelson H. (April 5, 2018). "The Devil to Pay in the Backlands | work by Guimarães Rosa". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  18. ^ Teller, Raymond Joseph (November 1997). "A Memory of the Nineteen-Nineties". The Atlantic Monthly. Vol. 280, no. 5. pp. 48–53.
  19. ^ Spencer Portor, Laura (1917). "Goethe's Faust". The Greatest Books in the World: Interpretative Studies. Chautauqua, NY: The Chautauqua Press. pp. 82–112.
  20. ^ Rieth, Peter S. (July 19, 2016). "Isaac Asimov and "The Last Trump"". The Humanist.
  21. ^ Alverson, Brigid (March 25, 2011). "Lansdales and Wachter jump aboard, That Hellbound Train". Comic Book Resources.
  22. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Jack Faust". Publishers Weekly. September 1, 1997.
  23. ^ "Light From Uncommon Stars". Macmillan Publishers. September 28, 2021.
  24. ^ Diamond, Jason (October 18, 2013). "The Devil's 10 Best Appearances in Literature". Flavorwire.
  25. ^ Smith, Wendy (July 23, 1995). "Memnoch The Devil The Vampire Chronicles". The New York Times.
  26. ^ Perry, Sarah (September 29, 2018). "Gothic self-pity and contempt, and sympathy for the devil". The Irish Times.
  27. ^ Cizmecioglu, Aygül (August 10, 2018). "Klaus Mann: 'Mephisto'". Deutsche Welle.
  28. ^ "Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775 - 1818)". Encyclopedia.com.
  29. ^ "Perelandra". BBC. February 9, 2007. Archived from the original on February 9, 2007.
  30. ^ Fritz, Morgan (2013). "Utopian Experimentation and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray". Utopian Studies. 24 (2): 283–311. doi:10.5325/utopianstudies.24.2.0283. JSTOR 10.5325/utopianstudies.24.2.0283. S2CID 142672284.
  31. ^ Salvatore, Anne T. (2007). "Against Platonic Authority: Collective vs. Absolute Truth in Barbara Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible"". CLA Journal. 51 (2): 155–169. ISSN 0007-8549. JSTOR 44325416.
  32. ^ Counter, Rosemary (June 1, 2017). "The Most Cursed Hit Movie Ever Made". Vanity Fair.
  33. ^ Twain, Mark (1909). "Sold To Satan". The Complete Works of Mark Twain: Europe and Elsewhere. New York: Harper and Brothers. pp. 326-338.
  34. ^ McGuire, Seanan (2014). Sparrow Hill Road. New York, NY. ISBN 978-0-7564-0961-6. OCLC 861069018.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  35. ^ McGuire, Seanan (2018). Tricks for Free. New York, NY. ISBN 978-0-7564-1040-7. OCLC 1026388767.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  36. ^ McGuire, Seanan (2019). That Ain't Witchcraft. New York, NY. ISBN 978-0-7564-1179-4. OCLC 1040230388.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  37. ^ Bourke, Liz (April 15, 2014). "Wandering America's Highways: Sparrow Hill Road by Seanan McGuire". Tor.com. Retrieved May 13, 2022.
  38. ^ Harris, Garrett (October 27, 2015). "Russian horror story". San Diego Reader.
  39. ^ "Pacts with the Devil". Encyclopedia.com.
  40. ^ Zipes, Jack David. "Timm Thaler". The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature Volume 2. Oxford University Press. p. 388.
  41. ^ a b c Jones, Josh (January 11, 2018). "A Brief History of Making Deals with the Devil: Niccolò Paganini, Robert Johnson, Jimmy Page & More". Open Culture.
  42. ^ Bleiler, Everett Franklin (1985). "Mervyn Wall". Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror. Hogan, Robert. Scribner. pp. 645–650. ISBN 978-0-684-17808-0.
  43. ^ Rottensteiner, Franz, The Fantasy Book: An Illustrated History from Dracula to Tolkien. Collier Books, 1978, (pp. 20-21). ISBN 0020535600
  44. ^ Yardley, Jonathan (August 11, 2005). "A Deal With The Devil That Still Pays Dividends". The Washington Post.
  45. ^ "Analysis and Plot Summary of "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne". Article Myriad. 2007. Archived from the original on January 20, 2008.
  46. ^ Widacka, Hanna (January 18, 2008). "Legendy i fakty o Mistrzu Twardowskim" [Legends and Facts about Master Twardowski]. Muzeum Pałacu Króla Jana III w Wilanowie (in Polish).
  47. ^ Ramm, Benjamin (September 26, 2017). "What the myth of Faust can teach us". BBC Culture.
  48. ^ Tiffany, Kaitlyn (October 24, 2017). "American Satan is about a rock band that makes a deal with the devil, who also claims he founded Apple". The Verge.
  49. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Grant, Drew (May 5, 2019). "The Best Movies on Avoiding Deals with the Devil". Collider.
  50. ^ Andersen, Soren (June 23, 2016). "'Belladonna of Sadness': Erotic tale from Japan not for the squeamish". Seattle Times.
  51. ^ Ebert, Roger (March 14, 1986). "Crossroads movie review & film summary (1986) | Roger Ebert". RogerEbert.com.
  52. ^ Canby, Vincent (March 6, 1981). "Devil A La Disney". The New York Times.
  53. ^ Maslin, Janet (November 24, 1999). "'End of Days': Satan Is Planning Millennial Mischief". The New York Times.
  54. ^ "Faust (1994)". Rotten Tomatoes.
  55. ^ "Faust: Love of the Damned (2000)". Rotten Tomatoes.
  56. ^ Clarke, Catj (May 20, 2010). "Film review: Heartless". The Guardian.
  57. ^ "H-E-Double Hockey Sticks! (1999)". Rotten Tomatoes.
  58. ^ Treadway, Dean (May 25, 2017). ""The Devil Calls The Tune" in Alan Alda Satanic Horror".
  59. ^ Unsworth, Martin (April 28, 2014). "Blu-ray Review: The Phantom of the Opera (1989)". Starburst Magazine.
  60. ^ Austen, Jake (May 1, 2008). "Sammy Devil Jr". Vice.
  61. ^ Cartmell, Deborah; Polasek, Ashley D. (2020). "Russian Cinema". A Companion to the Biopic. John Wiley & Sons. p. 138. ISBN 978-1-119-55481-3.
  62. ^ Stevenson, Erin E. (July 27, 2007). "The story behind Shortcut to Happiness". Entertainment Weekly.
  63. ^ Phillips, Lauren (October 5, 2020). "18 Halloween Movies on Netflix You Can Watch Right Now to Get in the Spooky Spirit". Real Simple.
  64. ^ Polcaro, Rafael (October 30, 2017). "Find out more about the deals with the devil in the musical history". Rock and Roll Garage.
  65. ^ "The Black Rider (Soundtrack), 1993". TomWaits.com. Waits wrote this theatrical piece with legendary underground novelist William S. Burroughs and avant-garde stage director Robert Wilson, based on a 19th-century German fable about a file clerk who makes a deal with the devil.
  66. ^ Macintyre, Ben (November 6, 2018). "Oh mama mia, did Freddie have us on for all those years?". The Australian. Others see Bohemian Rhapsody as a variation on the Faust story: a man sells his soul to the devil and Satan returns to demand his due.
  67. ^ Yeo, Sarahanne (July 19, 2016). "So What Is "Bohemian Rhapsody" Actually About?". The Odyssey.
  68. ^ Boone (December 1, 2020). "Bridge of Death". Ride Into Glory. Eric Adam's signature brand of soaring vocals take us through a tale of a mortal making good on his deal with the devil by offering up his soul
  69. ^ Huston, Steven C. "Brother Jacob". Lyrics.com.
  70. ^ Findlay, Mitch (February 7, 2019). "DMX's "Damien" Trilogy Is Pinnacle Hip-Hop Horror". Hot New HipHop.
  71. ^ "Content of the different SABBATH songs". Black Sabbath online. October 17, 2021.
  72. ^ Cramer, Marc (1999). "The Devil's Trill and Other Violin Sonatas". Renaissance Magazine. Archived from the original on May 19, 2000.
  73. ^ Sollow, Stephanie (March 7, 2004). "Kamelot - Epica". ProgressiveWorld.
  74. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "The Black Halo - Kamelot". AllMusic.
  75. ^ Knispel, Julie (2007). "Dream Theater, Systematic Chaos". Music Street Journal. In The Presence of Enemies Part 1: John Petrucci's lyrics draw heavily from Korean manhwa series Priest, a graphic novel telling the tale of Ivan Isaacs, a fallen priest who sold his soul to the devil
  76. ^ Serrano, Shea (March 26, 2018). "Is Rap Satan a Good Hang or a Bad Hang?". The Ringer.
  77. ^ "Lil Peep - Problems". MetroLyrics. Archived from the original on January 14, 2021.
  78. ^ Beaumont, Mark (September 20, 2013). "10 Geeky Facts About Muse's 'Absolution'". NME.
  79. ^ Bruce, Jasper (June 25, 2020). "Tenacious D reveal which songs inspired 'Tribute'". NME.
  80. ^ Sullivan, M. F. (August 26, 2016). "Here I Am, Not Quite Dying: An Analysis of the Esoteric Catalog of Musical Magus, David Bowie". Painted Blind Publishing.
  81. ^ Horowitz, Joseph (April 23, 2000). "'Doktor Faust' Captures a Composer's Paradoxes". The New York Times.
  82. ^ Schwarm, Betsy (March 27, 2016). "Faust | Opera by Gounod". Encyclopedia Britannica.
  83. ^ Salazar, David (December 6, 2017). "Opera Profile: Berlioz's 'La Damnation de Faust'". Opera Wire.
  84. ^ "The Devil Gets His Due: Boito's 'Mefistofele'". NPR. February 29, 2008.
  85. ^ Betsy Schwarm, Der Freischütz at the Encyclopædia Britannica
  86. ^ McFarland, Kevin (May 5, 2014). "American Dad: "Permanent Record Wrecker"". The A.V. Club. Hayley helps by purchasing some guitar lesson videos featuring Lorenzo, a devilish infomercial star who makes a Faustian bargain with Roger, who doesn't think twice about trading his soul for guitar skills.
  87. ^ Saraiya, Sonia (March 3, 2014). "Archer: "Baby Shower"". AV Club.
  88. ^ Woolery, George W. (1989). Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987. Scarecrow Press. pp. 110–111. ISBN 0-8108-2198-2.
  89. ^ "Hell Is Other Robots". Syfy.
  90. ^ Huddleston, Kathie (August 4, 2003). "Futurama Series Finale". Science Fiction Weekly. Archived from the original on July 3, 2007.
  91. ^ Nicholson, Max (July 25, 2013). "Futurama: "Calculon 2.0" Review - IGN". IGN.
  92. ^ Johnston, James (September 11, 2014). "Gravity Talks: "The Golf War" and "Sock Opera" [Review]". Multiversity Comics.
  93. ^ Iverson, Dan (November 7, 2006). "Metalocalypse: "Bluesklok" Review". IGN.
  94. ^ Parker, Lyndsey (October 28, 2020). "MVP of Horror: Alice Cooper recalls making a devilish deal with the Muppets". Yahoo! Life. Archived from the original on October 29, 2020. The Halloween special (type)cast him as an assistant to the Devil, tempting the innocent Muppets with "fabulous riches and worldwide fame" in exchange for their souls.
  95. ^ Butler, Catherine (December 2019). "Shoujo Versus Seinen? Address and Reception in Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011)". Children's Literature in Education. 50 (4): 400–416. doi:10.1007/s10583-018-9355-9.
  96. ^ O'Donoghue, Caroline (May 6, 2020). "Bring back Satan: what the devil tells us about the world we live in—and why we need him now". Prospect Magazine.
  97. ^ Napier, Jane (October 1, 2012). "666 Park Avenue: Sell Your Soul to the Devil for Manhattan High End Real Estate". Mic. As dreams come true, the residents of this building find they've been lured into making, what feels like, a deal with the Devil.
  98. ^ Goodman, Tim (September 27, 2012). "666 Park Avenue: TV Review". The Hollywood Reporter.
  99. ^ Schnelbach, Leah (October 26, 2018). "All Hail Brimstone, The 90s Supernatural Cop Show that Deserves a Cult Following". Tor.com.
  100. ^ "Charmed Season 6, Episode 7 Soul Survivor". TVGuide.com. Paige tries to help a man who sold his soul to a demon in exchange for material wealth
  101. ^ "Charmed - Season 1 Episode 6 The Wedding From Hell". Rotten Tomatoes.
  102. ^ "The Collector (TV Series) (2004)". FilmAffinity. Centuries ago, Morgan Pym made a deal with Satan: his soul, in exchange for 10 years with his one true love.
  103. ^ Navarro, Meagan (April 13, 2018). "The 5 Best Episodes of "Friday the 13th: The Series"". Bloody Disgusting. The series' premise allowed for it to go to some dark places; it revolved around an antique dealer who sold his soul to the devil and had to sell cursed antiques.
  104. ^ "Good vs. Evil". TVGuide.com. A romance novelist makes a Faustian deal with the devil for the chance to write an immortal work of literature
  105. ^ "Inside Inside No. 9: How Do You Plead?". BBC Sounds. Retrieved June 7, 2021.
  106. ^ Mellor, Louisa (June 7, 2021). "Inside No. 9 Series 6 Episode 5 review: How Do You Plead?". Den of Geek. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
  107. ^ "Kamen Rider Revice Story & Crew Details Officially Revealed!". Paladin. July 22, 2021. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
  108. ^ Martoccio, Angie (February 21, 2019). "Flashback: The Monkees' Peter Tork Makes a Deal With the Devil". Rolling Stone.
  109. ^ Wanserski, Nick; Feinstein, Will; Spelman, Gus; Rabin, Nathan; et al. (July 22, 2016). "What's the best version of Satan in pop culture?". The A.V. Club.
  110. ^ Lorre, Rose Maura (February 4, 2017). "Sleepy Hollow Recap: Saving Malcolm Dreyfus". Vulture.
  111. ^ Connolly, Kelly (March 31, 2017). "'Sleepy Hollow' EP Breaks Down Crane's Big Choice". Entertainment Weekly.
  112. ^ Rome, Emily (February 1, 2013). "Super Bowl commercial: Willem Dafoe as the Devil". Entertainment Weekly.
  113. ^ "Derren Brown: Trick or Treat". Channel 4. He has persuaded members of the public to sign a Faustian pact with him
  114. ^ "The Twilight Zone: Printer's Devil (TV) (1963)". Filmaffinity. A man sells his soul to the Devil to save his failing newspaper and gets more than he bargained for.
  115. ^ Rowen, Nic (November 6, 2015). "Review: Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth, Deal with the Devil". Destructoid.
  116. ^ Plante, Chris (September 29, 2017). "Cuphead review". Polygon. Cuphead is the story of an adorable cup that makes a deal with the devil, then has to repay a debt by collecting the contracts of the devil's other debtors.
  117. ^ "Idle Hands are the Devils' Playground in Devil Maker: Tokyo". Gamasutra (Press release). Irvine, CA. July 15, 2013. Mobile gamers can now make a deal with the Devil(s) in Devil Maker: Tokyo
  118. ^ Hayste, V. (August 20, 2014). "Ratings and Reviews for Devil Maker: Tokyo". AppGamer.
  119. ^ Davis, Ben (January 29, 2015). "Dem bones: The best skeletons in video games". Destructoid. Calaca is the main antagonist of Guacamelee. He sold his soul to the devil in order to win a competition.
  120. ^ Allen, Robert (August 21, 2018). "Guacamelee 2 review". Tech-Gaming. Carlos Calaca- a rodeo rider who traded his soul to the devil to mend his broken arm.
  121. ^ "Liliana Vess". Magic: The Gathering.
  122. ^ Orsini, Lauren (May 30, 2019). "All 36 'Magic: The Gathering' War of the Spark Planeswalkers Ranked By Dateability". Forbes.
  123. ^ Creswell, Jacob (November 24, 2020). "Soulcalibur: What You Need to Know About Soul Edge, the Legendary Sword". Comic Book Resources.
  124. ^ Harradence, Michael (July 17, 2011). "In the Spotlight: Kazuya Mishima". PlayStation Universe.

External links edit

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deals_with_the_Devil_in_popular_culture&oldid=1210990368"