The Horror, The Horror: What Kind of (Horror) Movie is the Apocalypse?
The Apocalypse, its interpreters, and apocalyptic films make much of monstrous evils and violent ends. Apocalyptic does so in order to prevent community members' failure/apostasy. The fear of such failure is Apocalypse's first horror feature. Because its final fantasy is of an absolute Emp...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2010]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2010, Volume: 22, Issue: 3 |
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| Summary: | The Apocalypse, its interpreters, and apocalyptic films make much of monstrous evils and violent ends. Apocalyptic does so in order to prevent community members' failure/apostasy. The fear of such failure is Apocalypse's first horror feature. Because its final fantasy is of an absolute Empire, the Apocalypse is also inseparable from cinematic horror. This end—or its seductive preview in text/vision—is the horror of possession/absorption, a common trope of religious horror and the Apocalypse's second horror feature. The first horror feature so terrifies that one easily succumbs to the second; however, some films raise salutary questions about such scripted lives. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.22.3.001 |