Tag Archives: horror

“People just do the strangest things when they believe they’re entitled. But they do even stranger things when they just plain believe.”

Posted on November 4, 2012 by

Guest post by Anastasia McAteer When I turned on Red State (Smith, 2011), my husband, the author of this blog, warned me: “It’s a horror movie. You might be scared.” I wanted to give it a try anyway, since I … Continue reading →

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“Your kids are your legacy.”

Posted on October 12, 2012 by

I’m tempted to interpret Sinister (Derrickson, 2012) as Scott Derrickson’s confession about his family life.  (And I’m not the only one to notice the similarities between Derrickson’s life and the film.)  Sinister is a horror movie about a writer named Elliot … Continue reading →

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“I just keep wishing I could think of a way to show them, that they don’t own me.”

Posted on April 14, 2012 by

This spring two strikingly-similarly themed movies were released within three-weeks of each other.  Joss Whedon’s Cabin in the Woods and Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games both tell the story of teenagers who are trapped in an artificially controlled environment to … Continue reading →

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“Although I am not anxiously anticipating a zombie apocalypse, the need to readdress the relationship of body and soul has never been more important…”

Posted on June 30, 2010 by

In a recent blog post at the church and postmodern culture group blog Bryne Lewis Allport links the popularity of zombie movies with anxiety about cloning.  She notes that, for example, tissue cloned from stem cells is, in a sense, … Continue reading →

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