The sound of the windows rattling jarred the little girl awake. She sat up in bed, the darkness enveloping, until the windows shown through in blinding light. “Daddy!” she screamed,…
When I started this novel, my intention was never to make it a series. But by the end of the first book, it became apparent that’s what I had to…
As a young boy, I remember watching Pet Sematary at the theater with my mom. While the movie didn’t really evolve well as I grew older, there was one scene…
I didn’t include Hereditary in my list of best religious or occult movies ever. This was in spite of the fact that it contains occult references and a demon. At…
#1. Jacob’s Ladder Jacob’s Ladder takes the top spot for one reason: It actually means something. When you think about what a movie means or what it’s about, that is…
With a movie like Se7en, there’s so much you can talk about. In lieu of starting his own ministry, an enigmatic serial killer named John Doe (this is significant) begins…
As far as Religious Horror goes, it’s impossible to talk about the genre without discussing the finer points of Jacob’s Ladder. The movie features Tim Robbins as Jacob Singer, a…
It all begins with The Exorcist. Arguably, one of the scariest movies of all time, The Exorcist is masterful at taking a vulnerable female victim and turning her into an…
Religious horror, or horror that contains religious themes, draws on the rich tradition of humanity’s connection with the fundamentally unknowable. Where do we go when we die? What is the…
