Yeah, but you see...The Exorcist gets away with it actually being a demon because it's a classic made by an atheist Jew and a very overt Roman Catholic, so people assume their fairly combative partnership negates any lingering taste of crazy. And Emily Rose really IS a proselytization vehicle--it was made by a devout Baptist to A) take advantage of the Fundie market and B) possibly convert some horror-loving heathen along the way. The movies being made these days are, as far as I know, mainly being made by atheists/agnostics trying to play to either a wide PG-rated market or a committed horror audience, most of whom they (probably correctly) assume are also atheists/agnostics, or even aggressive and proselytizing atheists/agnostics. It's the same divide my husband Steve keeps running into in the SFF market--people who worship Lewis and Tolkien's product, but think the faith that prompted it is egregious, toxic BS. (I've even gotten it from horror "fans" who can't stand Arthur Machen or M.R. James, because they're a bit too deludedly Xtian for their purposes.)
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