S. Quentin Quale, also known as Dr. Satan, is the main antagonist in House of 1000 Corpses and a minor antagonist in The Devil's Rejects.
Biography[]
Doctor Satan seems unrelated to a pulp magazine character of the same name from the 1930s and 1940s. The sinister physician's history has been told different ways by different people so many times that no one knows who he truly is and how he came to be.
In the beginning of House of 1000 Corpses, Captain Spaulding tells a group of teenagers the story of Dr. Satan while on his murder ride at his museum. He explains that Dr. Satan was a murderer, torturer and master surgeon by the name of S. Quentin Quale. Quale was an intern at Willows County Mental Hospital nicknamed weeping willows, where he performed forbidden brain surgery on patients in order to create a race of 'super humans'. Quale was discovered and ended up hanged by an angry mob of vigilante townspeople outside of town. The following day his body had vanished. No trace of Dr. Satan was ever discovered. The entire tale and location is dubbed as the Deadwood Mystery.
In Otis B. Driftwood's bio on The Devil's Rejects' official site, a different tale is told. Here we find that Baby and he were drawn into a cult led by Dr. Satan. Otis and Baby were expelled by the leader of this cult, after they murdered one of the cult's leaders with an axe following a dispute over a bottle of whiskey.
Fate[]
Dr. Satan! killing Nurse Marcia.
In a deleted scene, Dr. Satan was wounded in the opening shootout and was taken away to a hospital. A nurse named Marcia checks the doctor, now in a coma, when suddenly he awakes, grabs her throat and brutally tears it open before collapsing back onto the bed. The EKG monitor to his right continues to beep, signifying that he is still alive - and quite calm.
Killed Victims[]
House of 1000 Corpses[]
- Jerry Goldsmith - Tortured to death.
- Denise Willis - Presumably mutilated.
The Devil's Rejects[]
- Nurse Marcia - Throat torn out. (Deleted scene)