What Horror Films Have to Say About God

The Christian podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey issued a Halloween-themed warning to her audience last week: Don’t watch scary movies. “How many times do we read throughout Scripture: ‘Do not fear,’” Stuckey wrote in a post that got more than 1 million views. For a Christian to “purposely consume content that is meant to make us scared,” she said on her show, amounts to “a direct contradiction of Jesus’s command to not fear or be anxious about anything.” She eventually deleted the post—even many fell

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