Production was primarily handled by Eminem and Dr. Dre, with contributions by Mr. Porter, DJ Head, and Jeff Bass.

Devil's Night received mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success, debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200 with 372,000 album sales in its first week.

The album's title comes from the Devil's Night tradition, recognized in and around Detroit in which abandoned homes are set ablaze.

The song "Revelation" parodies "Another Brick in the Wall Part 2", where there are kids screaming and Eminem shouting "Wrong!

The album features two songs with disses aimed at Limp Bizkit, one a subtle reference in "Pistol Pistol" by Bizarre and another a hidden track by Eminem called "Girls", which is a diss track aimed at Limp Bizkit, DJ Lethal, Dilated Peoples, and Everlast.

[6] Nathan Brackett of Rolling Stone wrote: "If the Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers albums were slapstick trips into one man's psychosis - like the Marx Brothers starring in Taxi Driver - then Devil's Night is Friday the 13th by the Farrelly brothers [...] with results varying from silly to just dumb".

[15] Jason Birchmeier of AllMusic highlighted "remarkable production" and Eminem's "songwriting genius on several of the song's hooks", who "bring[s] a catchy pop-rap approach to hardcore lyrics.

"[7] Q Magazine described Devil's Night as "a slightly tweaked re-run of The Marshall Mathers LP, with a couple of stonking singles.

"[13] NME's Ted Kessler called the album "Eminem's most misogynistic, homophobic, violent and anally fixated trip to date".

[12] Shaheem Reid, in his review for The Source, found some of the lyrics to be funny, but thought the themes used throughout the album get repetitive.