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Just when we thought we had noticed every imaginable variant of the police procedure, Fox went to throw Satan himself into the mix. Lucifer was created on the net in 2016, with Britain’s Tom Ellis betting on the charismatic ex-father of hell and Lauren German as LAPD detective Chloe Decker, the only one who can resist her charms, at least at first.
With reason for an exhibition of immortal beings, Lucifer did not survive one or two cancellations. The first came after the third season, when Fox announced that he would not renew Lucifer, despite a suspense finale. Fans who sympathized with Satan and the series rebelled, and Warner Bros. (who produced the series) saw an opportunity to sell it elsewhere. It was eventually resurrected via Netflix, which identified the outpouring as a very promising omen.
However, a month after season 4 hit streaming, Netflix announced that the fifth would be Lucifer’s last. But a year later, in June 2020, a divine intervention, or not, came to Netflix, and Lucifer renewed for season six. This time it’s final.
If you’ve developed a well-meaning taste for Satan with a sense of humor, Netflix has many videos to congratulate Lucifer. From demon-summoning teens to supernatural beings combined with humans to Neil Gaiman’s adaptation, here are the videos to see if you like Lucifer.
Part of Lucifer’s excitement is to see mortals interact with supernatural beings, especially when they are primarily skeptical of the lifestyles of things like angels and demons. This dynamic also takes place in Malevolent, a 2018 British horror film founded on a script by Eva Konstantopoulos and Ben Ketai, adapted from the novel through Konstantopoulos Hush.
The precept is Ghost Hunters, except, wow, ghosts are real. Brothers Angela (Florence Pugh) and Jackson (Ben Lloyd-Hughes) conduct a scam operation, presenting Angela as a psychic (as her mother overddued) claimed and pretending to be to rid the haunted houses of their ghosts.
Scarce cash and despite Angela’s instinct, they take on a task for a woman (Celia Imrie) who owns a terrifying orphanage. It turns out that years ago, some of their young men were found dead with their mouths sewn, supposedly in the hands of their terrifying son Herman (Niall Greig Fulton). Naturally, now you hear women screaming. Angela, Jackson and their two accomplices gradually realize that the screams not only come from genuine ghosts, but are also in real danger of adapting to the sick.
It was before Florence Pugh’s Very Happy New Year, 2019, that she turned one of the most despised characters in literature into an unlikely heroine in Little Women, and gave them all nightmares about bear skins and Swedish cults in Commander’s Middle. Maleficent doesn’t have as much suspense as Midsommar, but fears, like the ghosts of the film, are very real.
The devil doesn’t appear in the Netflix horror comedy The Babysitter (not to be with Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters Club), however, an organization of his fans are the main villains.
Cole (Judah Lewis) is your typical weedy 12-year-old enamored with his hot babysitter Bee (Samara Weaving). That is, until she invites her friends over to his house and murders one of them so she can collect his blood for their Devil-worshipping ritual — and Cole is next on their list of human sacrifices. What follows is a horror version of Home Alone, in which the would-be burglars are replaced by suspiciously mature Satanic high schoolers.
Like Lucifer, The Babysitter deals his evil subject with unwavering black humor, and the blood of 11 is noticeable. The cast is a who’s who of Generation Z: the youth band includes former Vine star Andrew Bachelor (also known as King Bach) and model, actress and general celebrity Bella Thorne as the animator of the symbolic horror film. And if you’re wondering why Bee of The Babysitter sounds so familiar, you might recognize Weaving for its functionality in the horror comedy, Ready or Not, a brief role in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, or the hit Netflix series. Hollywood. (Or you mistake her for Margot Robbie).
The nanny is fun, it’s the tongue on the cheek and fulfills all your essential elements of terror worshipping the devil, but in an acceptable way. It has worked so well that there is already a sequel in progress.
At first glance, Eli of 2019 looks more like the story of a bubble boy with a trace of poltergeist. But wait for the turn and you’ll get Lucifer’s link.
Young Eli (Charlie Shotwell) suffers from severe allergies, which means he will have to wear a protective suit at all times. When you join a medical program run by Dr. Isabella Horn (Lili Taylor) for young people with similar diseases, it’s at first great. But soon, Eli begins experimenting with terrifying spectra and supernatural events. She learns that all of Dr. Horn’s other patients died at the third level of remedy and that she has a secret room full of devout objects that cause her allergies.
Soon after, Eli’s mother, Rose (Kelly Reilly), discovers the bodies of Dr. Horn’s former patients, all tied up and buried with symbols. If those are enough spoilers for you, skip the next two paragraphs.
Rose confronts Dr. Horn, who shows that Eli, like his other patients, is a son of Satan. Rose made a covenant with Satan in exchange for a child, whom he promised would not look like Satan. Surprisingly, Satan lied, and Eli’s allergies are his true nature coming forth, and it is not yet over.
Directed through Ciron Foy, who also worked on The Haunting of Hill House, Eli shakes up the same old devil myth. Unlike Lucifer, this looks at the perverse aspect that comes from being a demon, when you need to tremble with fear of laughter.
Lucifer, of Lucifer, not the Bible, began as a supporting character in The Sandman, a comic e-book series created through Britain’s Neil Gaiman that would have his own Netflix adaptation. Later, Lucifer received his own series derived from the same name, which lasted 75 issues.
Stardust was also adapted from a work by Gaiman, in this case a novel of the same name, published in 1997. And it also depicts humans dealing with magical beings in disguise.
Tristan (Charlie Cox) leaves his small village of Wall to go to the magical realm of Stormhold, hoping to capture a fallen star. But outside the sky, the star is a ball of fused fuel molecules: it’s a woman, Yvaine (Claire Danes). Meanwhile, a witch (Michelle Pfeiffer) goes in search of the star, so that she and her witch sister can eat their center and repair their young men and strength. In addition, the old king has just died, provoking a struggle of forces among his remaining sons. The winner, Septimus (Mark Strong), also wishes the star, who lately has the magic stone he wants to claim his throne, and can grant him immortality.
In addition to Charlie Cox of Danes, Pfeiffer, Strong and Daredevil, the rest of Stardust’s cast includes Robert De Niro, Peter O’Toole and a gang of prominent British actors. This brings unconventional humor to the kind of fairy tale, as Lucifer does with police procedures.
There’s no Devil causing trouble in Bleach — but there are supernatural beings roaming Earth in human form (and otherwise). The 2018 movie is a live-action feature adaptation of the manga comic of the same name by Tite Kubo, which was a big hit during its run from 2001 to 2016. It was also adapted into a popular anime series, which was canceled in 2012 but is scheduled for a reboot in 2021.
Ichigo (Sota Fukushi) turns out to be an average 15-year-old boy, who can see ghosts. She then meets Rukia (Hana Sugisaki), a Soul Reaper: a non-secular consultant who brings the souls of the deceased to the Soul Society. Abandoned among humans for too long, souls become monstrous creatures called Hollows, which feed on other souls and cause overall monster-like damage. Soul Reapers fight the Hollows and purify them so they can enroll in the Soul Society.
When Rukia is wounded fighting a Hollow, she moves her soul Reaper powers to Ichigo. From the time the move would kill him, until he has accumulated enough power from Reiyoku in the fight against Hollows, he replaces it. Unfortunately, the other Soul Reapers have other ideas, leading Ichigo to agree to face the maximum and formidable Hollow of all, the Grand Fisher.
Bleach, like Lucifer, is an elegant, modern and funny interpretation of classic concepts such as non-secular souls, demons and guides, and the devastation they cause to humans.
Where Satan’s Lucifer edition is mischievous but charming, May the Devil Take You’s portrait is the ruthless and captivating classic monster.
The film begins with Lesmana (Ray Sahetapy) making a pact with Satan in the basement of his villa. During his life he receives riches, which he squanders, in exchange for his soul after death. It’s normal.
Ten years later, Lesmana is seriously ill and her ex-daughter Alfie (Chelsea Islan) reluctantly visits her at the hospital, where she witnesses a spirit waiting to drag him into hell. She returns to her now ruined villa, along with her half-brothers and sisters and Laksmi (Karina Suwandhi), with whom she has a complicated relationship. But when they open the basement door, nailed and covered in amulets, they lose the spirit that Lesmana evoked years ago, which begins to possess them and take them out one by one. It identifies many venous faces, vomiting of blood, rotating heads and artistic deaths.
May the Devil Take You directed through Timo Tjahjanto, who is best known for his blood-filled action films as part of the Unrelated Mo brothers. He also directed the acclaimed mystery The Night Comes for Us in 2018, one of the hidden action gems on Netflix that you want to see. If you miss the old-school Satan (pure evil, in possession, appearance effects come with the ability to scale walls in Spider-Man’s path), this is a great bloody complement to Lucifer. Watch out for the restArray..
If Lucifer has shown anything, it is that demons cannot be global humans – and Demonic reminds us that humans cannot snoop with demonic spirits either.
Six wannabe ghost hunters plan a consultation at an abandoned house, the site of an earlier consultation that ended up in a bloodbath and suicide. Despite the supernatural red flags, they continue, gathering around a Pentagon-style seal engraved on the floor of a room.
The film is a horror novel that is reproduced through photographs discovered (updated for the 21st century). Police discovered three of the students’ bodies and one survivor, John (Dustin Milligan), leaving two still missing. While psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Klein (Maria Bello) tries to get John to tell her what happened, Detective Mark Lewis (Frank Grillo) and his team read about the photographs the young men left looking for clues. Ignore the following two paragraphs if you don’t need any more spoilers.
Dr. Klein and Detective Lewis realize at about the same time that John, in fact, is not John, but a demon who uses it as a convenient means of transportation. The seal was used to catch the demon in the house, however, he possessed John’s session, killed the others and then forced him to kill himself. In the end, the demon disappears into John’s pregnant girlfriend, in rebirth.
Like Lucifer, Demonic combines the demonic gender with the police procedure; in this case, the devil is in the other aspect of the law.
If your only complaint about Lucifer is that it’s not realistic enough, enjoy the 2017 exorcism documentary, yes, documentary, The Devil and Father Amorth.
The film has a perfect pedigree: it is directed and animated through William Friedkin, director of the 1973 film, The Exorcist. (And The French Connection, the film in which a car pursues A Thing.) The indescribable fact of The Exorcist is that the story was based on a “real” exorcism, and Friedkin is still interested in the truth of special effects.
In the documentary, Friedkin revisits several of The Exorcist’s shooting locations, and interviews William Peter Blatty, who wrote the movie’s screenplay based on his own novel. But the main purpose of the film is to showcase the supposed God-given talents of the titular Father Amorth, an Italian Catholic priest who claimed to have exorcised tens of thousands of demons from their unwilling hosts during his (very long) lifetime. (He died at the age of 91 in 2016.) Since The Exorcist was his favorite movie (no surprises there), he agreed to let Friedkin document one such exorcism, the 11th for that particular “patient.” But the most shocking encounter supposedly happened offscreen.
Where Lucifer is deliberately funny, The Devil and Father Amorth are unconsciously funny. Unless, of course, you actually hunt demons, in which case it’s even scarier than the movie that presented you (and a thousand other stories of possession).
In Lucifer, occasionally you need a demonstration of supernatural abilities, wings, flickering red eyes or full faces of demons to convince humans that, in fact, they are talking to the devil. But in Bright, beings like orcs, elves and fairies not only walk among humans, they do so brabably (if not gently).
LAPD human officer Daryl Ward (Will Smith) is excited to team up with first U.S. orc cop Nick Jakothrough (Joel Edgerton). Not only are orcs despised by other races, but Ward suspects that Jakothrough helped an orc suspected of hurting Ward to escape arrest.
One night, the duo is called to a mess that leaves only one survivor: an elf, Tikka (Lucy Fry). She has a magic wand, a rare object that most people can’t care for without dying. Those that can be called Brights. It turns out that it protects the magic wand from an organization of beings seeking to resurrect the defeated Dark Lord, a figure that many do not even exist. The trio are chased, escape, fight various enemies, and Ward and Jakoby eventually become friends and perceive each other better.
Jakoby is the Satan or a demon, like Lucifer, but if you like to see a LAPD officer solve existential crimes along with beings who are completely from this world, Bright is a fun way to do it.
If you’re on TV and movies, humans are easy to fear, so it’s obligatory for supernatural beings to hide their genuine and terrifying similarities with witty costumes. This is true for Lucifer and the Witches in The Witches, an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book. (If you’ve seen the main points of Charlie and the chocolate factory that only adults notice, you know Dahl’s stories are scarier than the average children’s wool.)
Orphan Luke (Jasen Fisher) is warned against the witches through his grandmother Helga (Mai Zetterling). They hide their big claws, their paws, their huge nostrils and their bald heads in disguise, and they hate children.
On vacation, Helga and Luke unknowingly make an e-book in the same hotel as a witch convention. Luke discovers his plan to turn all the young people in the world into mice by adding sweet with a magic potion. Before he can warn anyone, the witches catch him and force him to drink the potion, turning him into a mouse. However, with Helga’s help, Luke encourages witches to eat soup with potion. They all become mice and are killed in a hotel, with the exception of a disillusioned witch, who turns Luke into a human.
Anjelica Huston takes over her throne as the horror queen of the circle of relatives as a wonderful witch. The Witches is as laughous and silly as Lucifer, with a touch of The Goonies.