The new issue of Rue Morgue magazine has a cover story about Christian Horror as a genre. The authors talked to a number of people active in the genre including T.L. Hines and Mike Duran. There is a also a nice plug for the Christian Horror site at christian-fandom.org, and for Fear & Trembling magazine. I am quoted a couple of times (ego stroke), but I am really glad they were able to interview Scott Derrickson, who addresses the subject with far more intelligence and lucidity. When talking about Christian horror as a genre, Derrickson says:
I don’t know that I accept Christian horror as a defined subgenre… if you include The Exorcist and The Omen in that subgenre I’ll accept the term, because those films, as well as horror films made by professing Christians, are dependent upon Christian theology for their stories. I certainly object to the idea of defining a subgenre by the religious beliefs of the filmmakers and not the films themselves.
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