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Malik23 wrote:Frailty.
Oh Hell yes! That is hands-down one of the coolest movies I've ever seen.
Damn you, I was trying to be ironic! :D You completely diffused my irony by liking it (or did you increase it . . . ? 8O ).

This movie scared me because it was too close to my own childhood. I'm serious. My parents "saw demons" everywhere, even in my friends. They didn't instruct me to kill them. But they were 100% serious about people they didn't like being possessed by demons. Religion scares the bejesus out of me.

Watching this movie as an adult was way too personal for me. I called my brother afterwards, and he agreed with me, that this felt too much like our own childhood. That first scene about being woken up in the middle of the night, trusting your father without question over something crazy . . . yep, I can relate. Considering that it's dealing with two brothers in their adulthood, looking back on their experience, it was downright spooky.
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Here's one that at first glance might not seem to be a religious film, but there is a reoccurring theme of religious persecution, Nightbreed.
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At Play In The Fields Of The Lord


I just have to vote for it because it has Tom Waits in it.
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Heh....Sorry Malik.
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Not exactly a "religious" film but, in the same mould as Frailty I suppose - does anyone else know the Larry Cohen film God Told Me To?
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No one mentioned Bruce Almighty or Evan Almighty. I liked those. (Evan was better than you might think, lacking the whole Jim Carrey show.)

Actually, taking into consideration what the criteria seems to be in this thread for "religious" films, I could throw in Ladykillers as well. :D
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Malik23 wrote:
Cail wrote:
Malik23 wrote:Frailty.
Oh Hell yes! That is hands-down one of the coolest movies I've ever seen.
Damn you, I was trying to be ironic! :D You completely diffused my irony by liking it (or did you increase it . . . ? 8O ).

This movie scared me because it was too close to my own childhood. I'm serious. My parents "saw demons" everywhere, even in my friends. They didn't instruct me to kill them. But they were 100% serious about people they didn't like being possessed by demons. Religion scares the bejesus out of me.

Watching this movie as an adult was way too personal for me. I called my brother afterwards, and he agreed with me, that this felt too much like our own childhood. That first scene about being woken up in the middle of the night, trusting your father without question over something crazy . . . yep, I can relate. Considering that it's dealing with two brothers in their adulthood, looking back on their experience, it was downright spooky.
It is, to me, the scariest movie I have ever seen. I am one of those people that really is a little mushy about his family life. To imagine something like this destroying a family like that, it was really really spooky to me.
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Cag wrote:At Play In The Fields Of The Lord
I love this film too-it has all sorts of famous folks in it like Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Darryl Hannah, Kathy Bates and Aidan Quinn.
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Ten commandments
Ben Hur

Those are classics and I thought they were great!

One made recently was 'The Nativity'.
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I thought Nativity was mostly well done, except that it got extremely cheesy towards the end.

("Hey, there aren't any open rooms - let's pull my pregnant wife off her ass (ha!) and stand in the middle of the road frantically doing nothing!")

Ben Hur was one of the few movies that was better than the book (in the book, he was really a jerk, and stayed that way through the end of the story).
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How did everyone forget The Davinci Code!!!!!
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Maybe because Da Vinci Code wasn't a religious film, but a detective one?
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As far as traditional religious movies go, I loved watching Ben Hur and the Ten Commandments every year on TV when I was growing up. Over the top acting, but incredible scenes.

A few religious/occult movies that haven't been mentioned and are pretty good: Fallen, The Ninth Gate and Devil's Advocate (despite costarring Keanu Reeves.)
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Just a couple of late mentions, The Serpent and the Rainbow, and Angel Heart. I love the scene where the old jazz musician says "We aint all Baptists down here."
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Two of my favorite movies of all time!

I bumped my old "religious" movies thread where we talked about The Order, Stigmata, The Prophesy, Seventh Sign and others...
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