 | The Shipping
News (2001)
 | Quoyle has a literal confrontation
with the "demons" of his past. He has seen himself (and steered his life
accordingly) through the negative influence of his father and other family
"demons" he has not recognized. He faces these forces and is reborn after a
storm. |
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| Bless the Child (2000)
| From the producer of "The Omen" (Mace
Neufeld), this film has good and evil battle in a way unique to most
movies of this genre: while evil gets in its punches, good fights back
with equal and eventually superior power. A small girl with uniqie
spiritual gifts, being raised by an aunt who has lost touch with the
faith of her own childhood, is the focus of the film. The scriptural
scene of Christ's Temptation is replayed with a most interesting twist.
Scenes centered on Good Samaritans abound in the film. (Best Good
Samaritan scene: the satanic cult's leader, in the Temptation scene,
tells the girl to jump off a tall building, to prove God is really there
to save her-- with the assertion of Satan being there, and God being
"just a nice idea." The girl eventually turns away from the
ledge, sits, and says to the satanist: "After you." Next
scene, the girl is being liberated from the satanic cult, and they are
running into the subway. The train's doors are closing, and it looks
like they'll miss the train and be caught by the satanists. At the last
second, an umbrella pokes into the train's door, causing it to re-open.
The umbrella's holder, a woman, looks at the child, smiles, and says
"After you." I can find a hundred homilies in that 10 minutes
of film.) (Jack Everman) |
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| The Phantom Menace
(1999)
| Darth Sidious/Darth Maul |
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| The Storm of the Century
(1999)
| Andre Linoge (Legion) demands a decision from the
people on the Island. Which decision is the right one? |
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| Wild Wild West (1999)
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| Fallen (1998)
| Lives through possessing people/animals in everyday
life. |
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| Dark City (1998)
| The Strangers do not like light or water. |
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| The
Devil's Advocate (1997)
| Satan as a wealthy, powerful lawyer. |
| Milton as a Nietschean devil. |
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| Face Off (1997)
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| Deconstructing Harry
(1997)
| Harry goes to hell via an elevator, and meets Satan
(Billy Crystal). Harry realizes that he has consigned his father to
hell, and says that he didn't mean it that way. (DVD ch 16) |
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| Natural Born Killers
(1994)
| The demonic is highlighted through the use of the color
green and through demonic images. While Mickey and Mallory are the
culturally revered "demons," other demons are exposed as well.
Ambiguity of demon figures - color green, entwined snakes - throughout
the film. |
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| The
Stand (1994)
| Randall Flagg as the likeable, humorous, sexy
embodiment of evil. |
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| Needful
Things (1993)
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Stephen King's "Needful Things" has to go into
the Evil/Sin section. I would put it . . . well, almost any of those work!
Great movie! What happens when Satan sets up shop in your town?
(David Ferguson)
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| Trading Places (1983)
| This past week our pastor preached from the Job 1:1,
2:1-10 text. During the discussion of the conversation between God and
Satan regarding testing Job, we showed a clip from the 1983 movie
Trading Places, starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd. The clip shows
two older brothers (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) discussing how they
are going to test their star trader (Ackroyd) by causing him to lose his
job, friends, fiancee, etc. (Michelle Perram, St. Paul UMC, Dayton, OH) |
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