"Of the many horrific moments in Roman Polanski's 1968 classic Rosemary's Baby, the point-of-view shot when Rosemary (Mia Farrow) gets a glimpse of the Devil forcibly impregnating her through a drugged-out haze is one of the most unsettling. We see Satan only briefly, but it's long enough to get a look at his eyes. Otherwise, the Devil remains off-screen, which is usually the most effective way to keep Satan scary."
"Two exceptional performances liven up this mostly dull supernatural thriller packed with '90s indie-film fixtures and starring Elias Koteas as an L.A. cop shaken out of his crisis of faith by what may be the corpse of an angel. The first is Christopher Walken as Gabriel, a mean-spirited angel who sniffs and licks crime scenes and inspects children's teeth for reasons that sort of make sense within the movie."
Rosemary's Baby contains a point-of-view shot where Rosemary glimpses the Devil impregnating her, revealing only his eyes while largely keeping Satan off-screen to sustain terror. The Exorcist keeps demonic presence felt without visually presenting the Devil. Some satanic films treat Satan as an abstract concept rather than a character, while others explicitly depict him, ranging from a mischievous trickster to a horned monster. A Halloween-themed list highlights twenty films that feature Beelzebub under various names. One unsettling '90s supernatural thriller features Christopher Walken as a mean-spirited angel and Viggo Mortensen as an unnerving Lucifer, emphasizing performance over plot.
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