It's not such a big jump. Some might even say they're the same place. But make no mistake, Satan's a player. With a half dozen films coming down the pipe and a bunch of scripts in development, he's being green-lighted in projects all over town. There's Roman Polanksi's 9th Gate, Arnold Schwarzenegger's End of Days and the upcoming Adam Sandler opus Little Nicky. Not to mention Lost Souls with Winona Ryder, Bless the Child with Kim Basinger and Little Bit of Soul with Geoffrey Rush. Add in those devil movies of the recent past - Devil's Advocate with Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves and Fallen with Denzel Washington and what do you get? A whole lotta Satan going on.

Everyone in Hollywood loves a comeback kid, and Lucifer's no exception. You probably remember him scaring your panties off in the '70s, when he first hit big with The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, The Omen, etc. During the '80s and into the '90s he was as fashionable as stretch polyester, but now it appears we've come full cycle. Why? One line of thought had it that all that millennial talk about Armageddon, power blackouts and dinners of cold canned beans had piqued dark thoughts. Last year, New Line production president Mike DeLuca even told a reporter that "devil movies aren't as likely to play after the millennium arrives, simply because the scare factor will start right after New Year's Eve. Once people realize nothing's going to happen and it's just another year, there's going to be this big whew! And everyone will be in a great mood."

Mr. Deluca was at least partly right. Nothing happened, and yes we are in a pretty good mood, but Satan is still bigger than Britney Spears' teenyboppers. What gives, and more importantly, how did the goat-footed one come to receive such a fetching makeover?