The Devil's Messenger

One of the recent sinners to arrive in Hell is Satanya, a beautiful young suicide. The Devil orders her to act as a messenger for him to recruit possible new candidates from earth. In return for her work, she is promised clemency. Her first target is a New York photographer, to whom she brings a new camera; subsequently, he kills one of his models. His death and consequent descent into Hell are caused by the repeated appearance of the dead model's face in his photographs. Satanya's next assignment is an anthropologist, whose present from the Devil is a pick. He has fallen in love with a beautiful young woman who has been trapped and frozen in a glacier for a million years. His entry to Hell is assured when he kills the frozen woman, who drowns as he melts her icy grave. For Satanya, these two missions have been nightmares, but her next assignment brings her great pleasure. The potential victim is the man for whose sake she committed suicide. She ascends to earth as a fortune teller and is approached by her ex-lover, who wishes her to read his fortune from a crystal ball. As foreseen in their session together, the building collapses and they are both killed. In Hell, the couple are assigned to deliver to the people of earth an envelope containing the formula for an atom bomb. Soon after the formula has been delivered, the human race is destroyed by an atomic explosion, and all are consigned to Hell. (The American Film Institute Catalog)