Seeing and Believing: A Halloween Scarathon with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Fly

Wade and Kevin pick a scary movie for the other to watch on this Halloween edition of Seeing & Believing.

John Carpenter’s Halloween and the Problem of Horrendous Evil

Sometimes evil doesn’t have a backstory; it exists for its own sake. This is what makes John Carpenter’s Halloween so effective.

Persuasion: Scary Clowns and Other Horrors with Luke T. Harrington

Scary clowns and other horrors are the topics of conversation for Erin and Hannah as they welcome special guest Luke T. Harrington to talk about the Christian aversion to the horror genre.

Ophelia Alive by Luke T. Harrington, Free for CaPC Members

Despite the blood and grime, Ophelia Alive is probably best approached less as a horror novel and more as a philosophical thriller.

We Wish You a Scary Christmas: Holiday-Horror and the Glory of the Incarnation

The Christmas-horror canon uses myth and violence to re-frame and re-center our understanding of the biblical Christmas narrative.

Sympathetic Horror and the Undead Past in ‘Crimson Peak’

‘Crimson Peak’ features clear heroes and villains in its cast of characters, but the film’s true antagonist, which bedevils hero and villain alike, is the lurking past with its manifold sins.

Haunting Theology: How the Gothic Mode Can Speak to Christians

The Gothic is here to stay, and if we choose, we as Christians can be all the better for its presence.

Fleshed Out: The Body and THE FLY

“Who will deliver me from this body of death?”—St. Paul

Doctor Who’s Doctrine, Part 7: The Episode I Never Want to See Again

Daleks destroy, angels strike, and monsters chase, but in “Doctor Who” the most horrible villains absorb and “upgrade” human nature itself.

Cosmic Horror vs. Holy Terror: Christians Can Find Value and Meaning in Scary Movies

I would suspect that the “horror” genre is one of the most unpopular genres — literary, cinematic, or otherwise — for Christians, and understandably so.