That seems to link up with John Morehead and Kim Paffenroth's love of horror flicks. since it seems that at Halloween parties kids tend to dress like characters out of horror flicks -- vampires, zombies and the like.

I suppose the "spiritual warfare" angle even makes sense of the "slasher" movies they tend to show on TV at the end of October, if it enables one to confrint one's inner demons. I don't like "slasher" movies, and for me a "proper" horror film shows supernatural evil rather than human evil, and in any case, when I am tempted to anger, it is more to basher and smasher than slasher, so slasher movies still make no sense to me, but I don't enjoy basher and smasher ones either. Perhaps that's escapist -- I preferr to confront external evil, manifested in ghoulies and ghosties etc, than ones than internal ones.

But in horror flicks that are well done, they can coincide. There was a film based on Henry James's "Turn of the screw" -- i think it was called "The innocents" -- that was very good on spiritual warfare.
Steve Hayes | Homepage | 26.10.07 - 6:08 am | #

I may sound like I'm contradicting myself a little bit, but you do bring up a great point.
Although I firmly believe that we should enter culture, even the darkness of the culture (isn't that what Jesus did) we should not do it blindly. There is an enemy and he is real.
But the first thing to remember in that is that God came to destroy the works of the devil (a large part of the gospel) and because of that, we need not be afraid. That's not license to be unwise...but it's also not an excuse to hide.
Very good point
David | Homepage | 26.10.07 - 7:05 am | #