Us: Dark Easter
This article was originally published by our friends over at Grindhouse Theology, and is republished here by permission on the occasion of the home video release of Us. Enjoy! God brought them together. The Messiah taught them the glory of…
Out of the Woods, Into the Clearing: The Transformation of Innocence in Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers & The Night of the Hunter
This piece was originally published on October 26, 2018 at Grindhouse Theology. With their permission, it is being republished here. The concept of innocence is unusual coming from a Judeo-Christian viewpoint. Many branches of Protestant thought incorporate some formulation of sin…
How Culture Has Killed the Zombie: The Dead Don’t Die and the Death of Meaning
“[George Romero] turns the whole concept into something completely different. You can’t control the zombies. They are out of control. Generally, monsters — vampires, Frankenstein, Godzilla, whatever — they are outside the social structure. They are a danger to it, they are…
Trust and I Am Mother
I read an article talking about how I Am Mother is really about robots taking over the world. But what if it portrays much more than that? Human-kind has been wiped out. It no longer exists. A robot wakes up.…
Of The 2000s
With this piece, we have come to the end of the Decade Series of “Oh! The Horror….” This has been a fruitful endeavor in trying to place horror within a wider context and I, myself, have learned quite a bit…
of the 1990s
While the 80s might have had the shine and mythology of excess given to it from the rearview mirror of history, the 90s, by most appearances, lived in the full realization of that mythology. The thing that distinguished it from…
Reflections on a Sense of the Self: Toy Story (1995) and Us (2019)
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.” – Erik Erikson, Identity, Youth, and Crisis One of the first films that comes to mind when thinking of explorations of…
Review| Pet Sematary (2019)
Filmic adaptations of books are tricky, and they will never be universally loved by all because of the various subjective attachments we have to the books. Yet, from the birth of cinema, that has never stopped Hollywood from making them.…
The Unearthing of Class in a “Class-less” Society: The Red Scare of Jordan Peele’s Us
“And the Lord said to me, ‘A conspiracy has been found among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to…
A Theological Conversation with Pet Sematary (1989)
Stephen King admits that Pet Sematary may be the most frightening work he’s ever written. Maybe that’s why it’s so complex theologically; both the 1989 film and the 1983 book upon which it is based have lots to say about…
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