Sanctifying Splatter-punk: Rage, Fear, and Embodied Play in Christian Art
Want to know what questions haunt our society? Ask horror.
Taking Our Final Destination to Heart: Nobody Cheats Death
The Final Destination films tap into the gospel truth we try to avoid with protein shakes, exercise routines, and Cadillac healthcare plans.
Let’s Talk About Werewolf Movies (and Freedom in God’s Love)
Horror movies provide a safe space for us to explore disturbing truths about our natures that might otherwise be unbearable to watch.
The Humane Vision of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The original Texas Chain Saw Massacre stands as one of the great cinematic explorations of evil.
Midnight ’til One Belongs to the Dead: Hauntology in The Fog
Ghosts are signifiers of something that has gone wrong: a secret that has not been brought to light, an injustice that has not been righted.
Let’s Talk about Exorcist Movies (and God’s Love)
If demons do exist, if real exorcists are not crackpots, it may be that we escape to the movies hoping reality might be tamed.
The Haunting of Hercule Poirot: Ghosts versus Little Gray Cells
Poirot learns the limits of his overreliance on rationality, and is beckoned to the realm of faith and the light of life.
Seeing and Believing 393 | They Cloned Tyrone & Eyes Without a Face
Mad science is afoot in this week’s double feature. They Cloned Tyrone, and 1960’s French horror film, Eyes Without a Face.
The Incapability of the Human Will in Smile
Smile conveys the deep incapability of the human will in fighting our own battles.
Cole Burgett’s The Lost Son: The Horror of an Unabsolved Homecoming
An homage to classic horror radio plays, this limited audio series asks, “What if the father had rejected the prodigal son upon his return?”
100 Years Later, Nosferatu Still Casts a Long Shadow
Nosferatu is a relic of a day when people were not afraid to make moral judgments and make their monsters monstrous.
Breaking Bread: Midnight Mass and the Inversion of the Eucharist
When the God you preach is nothing more than a simulacrum of your own shadow, it’s easy to justify wrongs against the least of these for your own ends.
A Grief Obscured: Horror and Hope in A Dark Song
Writer-Director Liam Gavin’s A Dark Song (2016) promises its audience horror, delivers creeping unease, and ultimately yields itself up to awe—taking us on a journey from the depths of entropic despair to the heights of spiritual renewal.
Seeing and Believing 291 | Rose Glass’s “Saint Maud”
What’s the line between religious devotion and religious obsession? Wade and Kevin explore this with their review of Saint Maud.
Why Were Comic Books So Bland and Silly in the 1950s? Moral Panic, Obviously.
Stories that pretend horrifying, disturbing, and immoral things simply don’t exist tend to ring hollow.
Something Wicked, Something Holy: Light and Darkness in Something Wicked This Way Comes
To participate in politics in 2020 seems to be an exercise in fear, like the call from Dark in Ray Bardbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes.
