So why is Satan having such a comeback right now? What can it tell us about this moment in American history? In short: what the hell is going on here? Back then, Satan's trendiness was viewed as a response to the era's social change - and, at times, a refutation of the changes created by second-wave feminism. Satan becoming the season's hottest breakout star would seem like yet another "only in 2018!" phenomenon, except that this has happened before - most recently, in the late '60s and early '70s, when movies like Rosemary's Baby (1968 ) The Exorcist (1973), The Omen (1976), and The Amityville Horror (1979) ruled cinemas. In the new year, we'll get a fourth season of Satanic-buddy cop drama Lucifer, and Stranger Things' David Harbour dons the horns for a new Hellboy film. Even on Riverdale - a show that's far more interested in criminal conspiracies and KJ Apa's abs than religion - he looms in the background as the gang tracks possibly-demonic villain the "Gargoyle King."Īnd there's still more to come: Shay Mitchell's exorcism-gone-wrong horror film, The Possession of Hannah Grace, hits theaters on November 30. After lingering on the edges of summer horror hits Hereditary and The Nun, he took center stage this fall, tormenting teen witch Sabrina Spellman on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrinaand bringing on the end times in American Horror Story: Apocalypse.
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