The Devil wants your mom's soup recipe. No, really. That's the plot.
Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies him with the answer to his dreams, a piece called 'Demonella' he is anxious to fulfill his part of the deal, to give the Devil his mother's secret recipe for chicken soup to serve her celebrity guests in Hell.
Acting
Jennifer Saunders' Devil is doing the MOST
Writing
Chicken soup as currency of damnation
Production
Hell looks suspiciously like a catering hall
Director
Paul Bartel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was part of 'The Comic Strip Presents' anthology series, explaining the packed British comedy cast.
Paul Bartel's final directorial work—he died three years later, making this a deeply weird swan song.
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