History Main / HollywoodSatanism

* TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons.

* Film/ReadyOrNot: The Le Domas family worships the demon Mr. Le Bail (an anagram of Belial), in exchange for their wealth (though most of the younger members aren't sure he exists, they go along just in case). Worshipping him is usually just a matter of sacrificing a few goats every now and then, but whenever someone marries in to the family, they have to play a game drawn at random. If the game is Hide and Seek, the bride or groom becomes a HumanSacrifice after being hunted through the manor all night. [[spoiler:In the end, Mr. Le Bail turns out to have been RealAllAlong when he [[LudicrousGibs explosively]] punishes the remaining family members for losing the game]].

* Film/ReadyOrNot: The Le Domas family worships the demon Le Bail (an anagram of Belial), in exchange for their wealth (though most of the younger members aren't sure he exists, they go along just in case). Worshipping him is usually just a matter of sacrificing a few goats every now and then, but whenever someone marries in to the family, they have to play a game drawn at random. If the game is Hide and Seek, the bride or groom becomes a HumanSacrifice after being hunted through the manor all night.

* ''Film/WeSummonTheDarkness'' uses this InUniverse [[spoiler:as a decoy. The girls are actually KnightTemplar evangelical Christians who stage their murders as deliberately stereotypical Satanic rituals, to create hysteria and drive people to join their church.]]

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* ''VideoGame/FaithTheUnholyTrilogy'' has a secret coven of Satanists in one of the endings of Chapter I. They take major stage as the main antagonistic group in the succeeding two chapters as they attempt to unleash TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt - their leader, Gary, serves as the BigBad.

* ''VideoGame/{{FAITH}}'' has a secret coven of satanists in one of the endings.

* Indie duo Twin Temple use this a gimmick. Perhaps best exemplified by their debut album being titled, ''Twin Temple (Bring You Their Signature Sound…. Satanic Doo-Wop).''

* ''Literature/{{Elantris}}'' has a CrystalDragonJesus version. While there's no SatanArchetype in the setting, the ritual of the Jesker Mysteries that [[spoiler: King Iadon]] is caught performing looks like it's taken straight from the page image. Naked, he disembowels a young woman on an alter and writes demands in her blood, surrounded by chanting sycophants in dark robes.

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-> ''"Oh come on Hollywood, what in the name of Belial did we ever do to you?"''
-->-- "Real Life Satanists," in Website/TheEditingRoom's abridged script of ''Film/{{Annabelle}}''.

You know you're looking at Hollywood Satanism when you see Satanism portrayed as a ReligionOfEvil with bizarre, often [[{{squick}} disgusting]] rituals parodying Christian services and a particular fondness for [[HumanSacrifice human sacrifice]] and/or sex orgies. Common hobbies of the Hollywood Satanist include [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals sacrificing people's cats]], slipping [[SubliminalSeduction backmasked messages]] into popular music to corrupt the youth, and engaging in carefully-calculated [[TakeOverTheWorld world-domination schemes]] that have been in the works since the [[AncientConspiracy beginning of time]]. (These usually involve breeding {{The Antichrist}} -- extra points if he's [[{{Ghostapo}} Aryan]]!)

Hollywood Satanism [[OlderThanTheyThink actually goes back to Medieval Europe]], when it was believed that witches made a DealWithTheDevil to gain their power and engaged in rituals intended to mock Christianity just for the heck of it. Basically, it was thought that Satanism was essentially reverse Christianity, and the idea stuck. ''Film/RosemarysBaby'' gave it a shot in the arm in the 60's, and during the 70's-90's the SatanicPanic that many of the tropes associated with it became ingrained in the public consciousness (a subtrope of the broader witch hunt).

Individual Satanists are often presented as criminals, unless they're outwardly respectable politicians or public figures, or [[TownWithADarkSecret the whole town]] and of course a single ritual performed by drunk teens will ''[[ReligionIsMagic always]]'' make [[{{Satan}} the Big Guy himself]] (or one of his minions) show up to [[JustForPun raise hell]].

RealLife Satanism can be divided into two categories. One of them, sometimes called "[=LaVeyan=] Satanism" after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_LaVey one of its more famous figures,]] doesn't believe in Satan as a physical entity, and instead refers to him as a symbol for freedom to [[UsefulNotes/EthicalHedonism follow your own desires]] and/or for [[RebelLeader fighting]] [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters against]] [[GodIsEvil tyranny]]. The other one, which is called "Theistic Satanism", [[SatanIsGood worships or reveres Satan as a deity]]. Both of them, generally speaking, view Christian morality as self-destructive for both individuals and society. It's a religion whose followers, generally speaking, are no more or less likely to be evil than the followers of any other religion, [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad though their sense of what constitutes right and wrong is]] [[BlueAndOrangeMorality likely to veer far from the mainstream]]. In reality, it is more akin to the Pagan religions of old, their primary belief being that Satan and the demons are a corruption of the old [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Mesopotamian,]] [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Egyptian,]] and [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greco-Roman]] gods. And no, human sacrifice is not a widely accepted practice in most branches (though ''symbolic'' sacrifices maybe -- but that isn't so different from the Christian Communion, which is itself a symbolic sacrifice of the body and blood of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}).

Of course, if the work of fiction portrays its Satanists as part of a SecretCircleOfSecrets, then the above objections can arguably be handwaved: if such a secret society existed, then we [[FridgeLogic wouldn't know about it]]...

* ''Hotel Transylvania'', the first book in Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain series, is MADE of this trope. Devoted Satanists centuries before Satanism existed? Check. Inverted crosses to shock and horrify Christians? Check. Raping and sacrificing virgins to get power from Satan? Double check.

* Many religious documentaries about Satanism during the time of the Satanic Panic, such as ''Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism'' (1989), go fully into this territory.

* Many religious documentaries about Satanism during the time of the Satanic Panic, such as ''Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism'' from 1989, go fully into this territory.

* Many religious documentaries about Satanism during the time of the Satanic Panic, such as ''Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism'', go fully into this territory.

* Many religious documentaries about Satanism during the time of the Satanic Panic, such as ''Devil Worship: The Rise of Satanism'' go fully into this territory.

* ''VideoGame/{{FAITH}}'' has a secret coven of satanist in one of the endings.

* [[NotHyperbole Everything]] Music/{{Ghost}} writes is about this trope as the band's [[MeanCharacterNiceActor stage]] [[KayfabeMusic personas]] are part of a Satanic cult. Their first album was so over the top as to go into complete CardCarryingVillain territory, though it was toned to an extent in the later albums.

* ''Film/TheBabysitter'': Bee and her friends are members of a cult trying to make a DealWithTheDevil.

---> '''Teenager''': Carrie will sacrifice a cat to Satan at midnight.
---> '''Other Teenager''': What a way to end a party! Haw haw!
---> '''Moralizing Adult''' (later): [[AndThatsTerrible Satanic human sacrifices are a slap in God's face]].
* Averted in ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman'', which shows Dr. Hurt performing a Satanic ritual to summon Barbatos[[spoiler: actually one of Darkseid's weapons]]. All the components for a satanic ritual are present (nude woman, black robes, star of Baphomet etc.) The only Hollywood aspect is when Dr. Hurt eats the heart of a bat, but then again, Hurt is portrayed as pretty extreme even by satanic standards.

Hollywood Satanism [[OlderThanTheyThink actually goes back to Medieval Europe]], when it was believed that witches made a DealWithTheDevil to gain their power and engaged in rituals intended to mock Christianity just for the heck of it. Basically, it was thought that Satanism ([[NewerThanTheyThink which didn't actually exist at that point]]) was essentially reverse Christianity, and the idea stuck. ''Film/RosemarysBaby'' gave it a shot in the arm in the 60's, and during the 70's-90's the SatanicPanic that many of the tropes associated with it became ingrained in the public consciousness (a subtrope of the broader witch hunt).

* ''TabletopGame/KillPuppiesForSatan'' is a huge parody of this trope, portraying the Hollywood Satanists as pathetic, incompetent [[HarmlessVillain Harmless Villains]], with Satan mostly seeing them as a huge embarrassment.