Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen by Douglas E. Cowan

By Douglas E. Cowan

Sacred Terror examines the spiritual components lurking in horror movies. It solutions an easy yet profound query: while there are such a lot of different frightening issues round, why is faith so usually used to inform a frightening tale? during this lucid, provocative publication, Douglas Cowan argues that horror motion pictures are opportune automobiles for externalizing the fears that lie within our spiritual selves: of evil; of the flesh; of sacred locations; of a metamorphosis within the sacred order; of the supernatural long gone uncontrolled; of loss of life, death badly, or no longer last useless; of fanaticism; and of the power-and the powerlessness-of religion.

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