GOOD SATAN

Cinemavixion Review

In "Good Satan" (2012), director Sara Lohman offers a surprisingly poignant, albeit comedic, look at the Prince of Darkness navigating the complexities of modern heaven. The film, starring Scott Rutherford in the titular role, presents a Satan who, after millennia of feared respect, finds himself invited back to the celestial realm for an event far from the homecoming he anticipates. What unfolds is a clever subversion of religious tropes, as Satan grapples with a less-than-warm reception and the reappearance of a former flame now aligned with a particularly unpleasant heavenly figure. While the film's reception and box office performance are not widely documented, its IMDb rating of 6.3/10 suggests a mixed but engaged audience. Lohman's direction, coupled with Rutherford's performance, aims to explore a more nuanced devil, one who, in his own way, "does for once care - kind of." "Good Satan" succeeds as a quirky, character-driven comedy that invites viewers to reconsider the devil they thought they knew.