History DealWithTheDevil / Film

* Johnny Blaze sold his soul to Devil in ''Film/GhostRider'' to get his foster father cured from his cancer. Unfortunately, he still dies (of a myserious stunt accident) and Johnny runs awya, eventually becoming the Rider when the Devil comes back. He makes a new deal; Johnny gets his soul back in exchange for a contract that hosts the souls of a thousand malevolent individuals. Johnny does complete his part of the deal and gets his soul back... but retains his Rider powers and promises to use them against the Devil. As for the souls, pretty much gone since he burned them all with the Penance Stare.

** ''Film/HellraiserJudgement'': The Preceptor tries to bargain for his soul with Pinhead by offering the lives of two other sinners guilty of adultery after forcing them at gunpoint to use the Lament Configuration. However, this is [[DefiedTrope defied]] since Pinhead can't accept the offer, given that a different faction in Hell wants to recollect him and Pinhead is just helping them as a favor.

** ''Film/HellraiserJudgement'': The Preceptor tries to bargain for his soul with Pinhead by offering the lives of two other sinners guilty of adultery after forcing them at gunpoint to use the Lament Configuration. However, this is [[DefiedTrope defied]] since Pinhead can't accept the offer, given that a different faction in Hell wants to recollect him.

** In the first ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}'', Kirsty in manages to stall for time after accidentally summoning the Cenobites by offering them the soul of a different person who had previously escaped from their realm. By the end, when they have collected on him, they pursue Kirsty anyway, but she manages to reverse the summoning ritual in time.

* ''Film/HellraiserJudgement'': The Preceptor tries to bargain for his soul with Pinhead by offering the lives of two other sinners guilty of adultery after forcing them at gunpoint to use the Lament Configuration. However, this is [[DefiedTrope defied]] since Pinhead can't accept the offer, given that a different faction in Hell wants to recollect him.

* The ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' series has lots of people make deals with the Cenobites, in search of the ultimate pleasure. But the Cenobites being the Cenobites, the pleasure they often give those who use the Lament Configuration is not the kind of pleasure they actually ''want''. However, they are possible to be bargained with; Kirsty in particular manages to stall for time by offering them the soul of a different person who had previously escaped from their realm.

* The second half of ''Film/{{Insomnia}}'' revolves mainly around this.

* Disney Channel Original Movie ''Film/LuckOfTheIrish'' involves the protagonist Kyle Johnson making a deal with a far darrig named Seamus that whoever won a series of games would get the [[MacGuffin lucky gold coin]], and Seamus would have to forever go to Erie, the shores of [Kyle's] forefathers. Seamus thinks that Kyle is mispronouncing Eire, a nickname for Ireland; but Kyle's paternal family is from Ohio which borders Lake Erie.

* In ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Was_a_Teenage_Faust I Was a Teenage Faust]]'' Dave is a young high school desperate for popularity in order to get close to the new hot girl Twyla. He signs a deal, not realizing it would be his soul on the line. When his dealer, Mr. Five, comes to collect Dave [[spoiler:uses the fact he knows Twyla was a girl who made a similar deal for popularity to save themselves. In what Mr. Five thinks is revenge, Dave asks him to change Twyla back to her old bodily proportions, making her a really tall girl. This voids her contract and in retribution, her dealer burns the contracts Mr. Five collected during the movie, saving Dave and his friend]].

* In ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', a muse claims to be personally responsible for 19 of the top 20 grossing films of all time. Except for ''Fiilm/HomeAlone''. Or, rather, "The one about the kid by himself in his house, burglars are trying to come in and he fights them off?" "[[MemeticMutation (Aahhh!)]]" She had nothing to do with that one. "Somebody sold their soul to Satan to get the grosses up on that piece of shit."

* In ''[[Film/{{Crossroads 1986}} Crossroads]]'', young guitar virtuoso Eugene has to help old Robert Johnson sideman Willie escape his contract with the Devil, leading to an [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome epic axe-off with Steve Vai]].

* The ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' series has lots of people make deals with the Cenobites, in search of the ultimate pleasure. But the Cenobites being the Cenobites, the pleasure they often give those who use the Lament Configuration is not the kind of pleasure they actually ''want''.

** The rock-off is a parody of many other versions where the mortals can actually compete successfully against the Devil.

* In the film version of the ''Hellblazer'' comic above, ''Film/{{Constantine}}'', the titular character [[spoiler:kills himself a second time to summon Lucifer to claim his soul. But while talking, Constantine reveals the plan of BigBad, which screws with Lucifer's plans. So Lucifer stops it easily. Annoyed he is in debt to Constantine, he is the one starting the deal and offers him more life. Constantine would like instead the soul of a woman who committed suicide free to be in heaven. An easy bargain and Lucifer smiles but soon realizes Constantine is rising to heaven as he died to save the world. So, he cures Constantine's cancer and wrist wounds, forcing him to live. Oh, and when rising, Constantine, or maybe God controlling the hand, flips off the Devil.]]

* In ''Dogma'', a muse claims to be personally responsible for 19 of the top 20 grossing films of all time. Except for ''Home Alone''. Or, rather, "The one about the kid by himself in his house, burglars are trying to come in and he fights them off?" "[[MemeticMutation (Aahhh!)]]" She had nothing to do with that one. "Somebody sold their soul to Satan to get the grosses up on that piece of shit."

* Johnny Blaze sold his soul to Devil in ''Film/GhostRider'' to get his foster father cured from his cancer. He dies, and Johnny is turned into the eponymous character. At the end, though, he refuses to give the Devil his powers back, choosing to fight him instead.

* The ''Film/{{Spawn}}'' movie is about a bargain with the devil which ends in the nearly total devastation of the former when the protagonist successfully uses newly acquired powers against the one who gave them.

-->'''Marino''': You did it for Namath!
-->'''Satan''': Yeah, but Joe was coming here anyways.
-->'''Nicky:''' You're a good Devil, Dad.
-->'''Satan:''' And I also happen to be a Jets fan.
* The entire premise of the Disney Channel Original Movie ''Film/HEDoubleHockeySticks'' (starring Creator/WillFriedle).
** Naturally, Dave gets quickly screwed by the Devil thanks to the use of ExactWords in the contract ([[spoiler:the contract only promises his team will win the Stanley Cup, not him, so Mrs. B transfers him to the worst team in the league]]). This also provides a loophole for Dave to get out of the contract ([[spoiler:by training his dead-last team to beat his former team, thus nullifying the contract]]).

* Towards the end of ''Film/PhantomOfTheParadise'', we learn that Swan made a deal with the devil to stay youthful forever and to be a super-successful record producer. Swan's end of the deal is that he must record every day of his life on film and rewatch every reel every day. If the film is destroyed, then Swan will die. When the phantom learns this, he promptly sets all of the film on fire.

* In ''Film/DraculaUntold'', the Elder Vampire's ritual gave Vlad incredible power but at the price of his humanity by turning him into a vampire. Also, the Elder Vampire got his powers from an actual demon.

* In the ShortFilm ''The Happiness Salesman'' has Karen offered the perfect destiny by a Salesman, but it becomes quite obvious that the Salesman is a servant of the devil when Karen finds out that [[spoiler:the payment is her first-born child]].