Oct 31, 2026 · 33 min · 14 segments
For Halloween, John Bickley and Georgia Howe take a break from the news to debate the merits of horror movies. Should Christians avoid the genre, or can scary movies explore meaningful themes of good…
John BickleyHost
Georgia HoweHost
All right, Georgia, so we talk about movies and TV all the time, and this is something we say every now and then.
debate specifically, to be clear, is should Christians watch horror films or is that glorifying evil, et cetera? There is an interesting debate online today.
kind of screwed that up, didn't I? So, obviously, we both have watched a lot of horror, we've both discovered.
So, the Christian argument is, is this a genre that inherently glorifies horror? Evil builds up in its viewers a sense, a spirit of fear.
Is this not something that we should reject as Christians outright? And so avoid this genre altogether.
I mean, the sense of if you indulge a certain emotions that are negative, at length, or even maybe at all, is that something that's detrimental ultimately to people? What do
All right, Georgia, so we talk about movies and TV all the time, and this is something we say every now and then.
debate specifically, to be clear, is should Christians watch horror films or is that glorifying evil, et cetera? There is an interesting debate online today.
kind of screwed that up, didn't I? So, obviously, we both have watched a lot of horror, we've both discovered.
So, the Christian argument is, is this a genre that inherently glorifies horror? Evil builds up in its viewers a sense, a spirit of fear.
Is this not something that we should reject as Christians outright? And so avoid this genre altogether.
I mean, the sense of if you indulge a certain emotions that are negative, at length, or even maybe at all, is that something that's detrimental ultimately to people? What do
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