‹SCREEN INQUISITION› presents DON'T DELIVER US FROM EVIL (1971)

Satan has been a mainstay in cinema since Georges Méliès released The Devil’s Castle in 1896. Films such as The Exorcist explicitly use demonic possession as an allegory to explore the changing bodies, desires, and attitudes female teenagers experience during the onset of puberty. However, Joël Séria’s 1971 film Don’t Deliver Us from Evil uses Satan as a symbol of rebellion. PhD candidate Sally Christie will discuss how Satan operates as a transgressive force in Don’t Deliver Us from Evil and how this relates to her wider research, suggesting that Satan is not simply a binary symbol of good vs. evil, but a catalyst of change and a feminist symbol in modern horror.