A Son of Satan is a 1924 silent race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux.
[1] The film follows the misadventures of a man who accepted a bet to spend a night in a haunted house.
[3] Some of the original cast from the hit Broadway musicals Shuffle Along and Runnin' Wild appear in the movie, including Aubrey Lyles and F. E. Miller, Adelaide Hall, Arthur Cooper, Mildred Baker, Ina Duncan, and Arthur Porter.
A Son of Satan ran into distribution problems when state censorship boards rejected the film based on its contents.
New York censors objected to the film’s depiction of violence, particularly against women and animals (a cat is killed onscreen in one scene, a Ku Klux Klan leader is slain, and a man chokes his wife to death[4]), while Virginia censors complained the film’s references to miscegenation would "prove offensive to Southern ladies".