When people hear I’m ordained, they often assume I grew up in the church. Wrong! I found churches (and Christians) kind of scary. Especially when they smiled during hymns or passed a cup to guzzle Jesus’s blood. The creepiest, though, was when congregations stood to intone liturgy as one; all those voices saying ‘Thanks be to God’ in unison evoked the same monotone I heard in horror movies, where weird cultists stood in a circle, chanting stuff to the Devil. It’s no surprise, then, to find a rich tradition of horror films set in ecclesiastical environments – which is the case for four horror releases this month.
City of the Living Dead (Cauldron Films) comes in hot with a priest hanging himself in a graveyard – an act so vile,…
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