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Alright pals, after work today I’m gonna be watching Let Us Prey episode one. I’m sure it’s going to be painful but important
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From September of 1974 to May of 1978, I attended an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist church run, John Birch Society funded cult brainwashing high school called Faith Christian Academy. The campus was a former mafia-owned golf course in Florissant, Missouri that was seized by the feds and sold to Dr. John Stormer, mostly famous for his conspiracy theory classic None Dare Call it Treason, less well known for being one of the cofounders of the nation-wide Union of Christian Schools, to use for his (thankfully long-ago closed) Calvary Chapel church and its attached private school.
Although they did manage to (briefly) convert me to Biblical Literalist Christianity, I was never not a disappointment to them because if they couldn't unambiguously prove any one of their doctrinal claims, I would politely but firmly tell them that I was going to, well, assert my authority and responsibility to make my own moral decisions in prayerful contemplation of scripture using sound tools of Biblical exegesis, as they had trained me. Except that for all that they taught "priesthood of the believer," in practice, if you came to a different conclusion from them and refused to accept that that meant they were right and you were wrong, they called that "rebelling against the authority that God has placed over you."
For example, as my class (of 28 students) approached graduation, we were all pointedly told that there (a) we were all expected to graduate from college in order to make ourselves better able to bring about the Kingdom of God on Earth in the United States, but, importantly, (b) there were only four colleges we could attend and "remain within the will of God:" Bob Jones University, Liberty Baptist University, Dallas Theological Seminary, and one tiny little school I'd never heard of called ... Hyles-Anderson Christian College. Which I gather is a major target of the documentary linked above, Let Us Prey.
I politely told them that none of those four schools had a decent math department, that I had gotten admission and financial aid to attend a Methodist university, Taylor University, and that I could not possibly care less about their opinion on the subject. But a friend and classmate of mine, the captain of the cheerleading squad, did apply for and receive admission to Hyles, and was excited to go.
The next Easter vacation after that, when I was back in St. Louis, I spotted her entirely by accident in a local mall, walked up and said hi, you're back for spring break too, how are things at Hyles? And she freaked out. She begged me to walk away and forget that I'd seen her, to tell no one where she was. She swore and said now she might have to run away again, she was afraid of having someone know that she was back in St. Louis.
Because, she said, her parents had signed a contract promising to return her to Hyles-Anderson, by any means up to and including force, and she wasn't back for spring break, she had run away, was homeless and on the run, had only come into the mall to warm up. And she said that she would kill herself rather than go back.
"Brad," she said, "I'm too ashamed to even tell you what happens there. You have no idea." I didn't press her on it. I offered help and she was afraid to take it. I never saw her again. I'll probably never know what horror she was fleeing, and I'm afraid to guess.
(I left Christianity behind forever, went more or less back to the humanism I was raised in, just a few years after that, in 1983.)
When I just saw a movie trailer linking the Independent Fundamentalist Baptist denomination in general and Hyles-Anderson Christian College in particular with mass physical and sexual abuse, including against minors? I wasn't at all surprised. It made me think about the fear I saw on the face of my old friend Johanna. I hope they didn't catch her and send her back to that right-wing rape camp. I hope she's okay. I hope she found healing somewhere.
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My Halloween movies of 2023
Yet again Spooky Season has come and I'm about to kick off my annuel scary movie marathon! This year it's pure horror, too, no real sci-fi or comedy (at least not REALLY) in the mix, just pure scare fests, so it's liable to be a little heavier than usual ... but like always, anyone who wants to have a crack at following me along, I'm gonna be starting tomorrow night and continuing on until the night of the 5th (I know, well over TWO WEEKS of spooky cinema!), so feel free to tag along ...
Apostle
Firestarter (2022)
The Fury
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Lifeforce
Animal
Dragonslayer
Night Teeth
Stung
Velvet Buzzsaw
Nope
Fright Night
The Empty Man
Let Us Prey
Superdeep
Season of the Witch
Fright Night, Part II
American Carnage
Army of the Dead
Hellraiser (2022)
Super Hybrid
Hope you have as much fun as I plan to ...
#apostle#apostle netflix#firestarter#firestarter 2022#the fury#brotherhood of the wolf#lifeforce#animal#animal movie#dragonslayer#night teeth#stung#stung movie#velvet buzzsaw#nope#fright night#the empty man#let us prey#superdeep#season of the witch#fright night part 2#american carnage#army of the dead#hellraiser#hellraiser 2022#super hybrid#halloween movies
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Let us prey…
#legion of x#nightcrawler#kurt wagner#let us prey#mutants#si spurrier#netho diaz#marvel comics#comics#2020s comics
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I have been watching a lot of HBO documentaries and series and so far the ones i have watched have been safe (i don’t get triggered by g* though so i might not have noticed mentions or instances of that)
the garden
love has won
the curious case of natalia grace (both seasons)
let us prey: a ministry of scandals (there are mentions of v* in the preview and one of the episodes (i think the 3rd one) where amanda householder tells her story but there is no reenactment of it). the preview at the beginning of episode 1 is exactly the same scene from the episode so if you can watch that you should be fine for the episode
timebomb y2k
class action park
#submission#the garden#love has won#the curious case of natalia grace#let us prey#timebomb y2k#class action park
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Donnie Darko and Heartless are two movies I did love. Another two others is
LO and Hellraiser.
If anyone have seen Lo. Please. Let me know. A non-binary demon in love with a pathetic wet blanket of a man. Dark comedy and romance but also bittersweet.
I watched it only once. It felt like a damn fever dream. It's a movie that you only need to see once and it is with you for life.
Also, let us prey.
That hit every fiber of my being.
A creature (reaper of sorts) falling in love with a woman. He saved her from a really horrible person when she was younger. Only to see her flourish into something like him but not like him.
*shoves papers to the ground screaming* it's fucking horror movies and thrillers that does this. It's folktales about women or men choosing the monster and saying, HELL YEAH that's my messy ass partner. My fiance liked it, so it's a damn win in my book.
#horror movies#im a horror movie fan#surprise#lo 2009#Lo#let us prey#donnie darko#heartless 2009#heartless#surprisia is pretty damn good#surprisia
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Everybody's talking about the new docuseries, Let us Prey. Have you seen it yet?
Erin McCauley Burchwell was on their podcast in September. Have you heard that?
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LET US PREY (2014) Reviews and now free to watch online
LET US PREY (2014) Reviews and now free to watch online
‘Darkness shall rise’
Let Us Prey is a 2014 British-Irish horror film directed by Brian O’Malley from a screenplay written by Fiona Watson and David Cairns. The synth soundtrack score was composed by Steve Lynch.
The movie stars Liam Cunningham, Pollyanna McIntosh (Blood Lands; The Woman) and Bryan Larkin.
Plot:
Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police…
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#2014#Brian O&039;Malley#British#Bryan Larkin#full free movie on YouTube#horror#Irish#Let Us Prey#Liam Cunningham#movie film#Pollyanna McIntosh#review#reviews
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The way Billy acts in the Holloway house mirrors how he acted when he was around Karen in that same season.
We don't ever see teen Billy's real smile, except for when he's on the court.
This smile is relaxed and carefree.
For example, his smiles here are all fake. Forced. There's an overly polite expression he wears, and it's shown in how he talks, too.
In both cases:
his facial expressions are controlled, except they're caused by different things.
he's been put in a position where he has his autonomy stripped from him.
his eyes look like they're screaming for help.
His job and car are two things that grant him what he cannot get at his house (which would be some freedom and control of his environment/himself). Karen takes that away from him, and so does the Mind Flayer. She shows up at his work with her friends and preys on him. He drives to meet her and gets caught in another predator's web.
And after, when he's driving his car, he's no longer behind the wheel. It's his car, and he has to sit there while he's being taken control of.
#billy hargrove#tw karen wheeler#billy hargrove meta#it just makes me so sad#angry too#jfc#cant let billy have anything huh#not a safe place to go#not his car#hes isolated even before his possession#you could have a scene with the holloways getting killed but... not neil?#most of the time hes taken advantage of abused in pain objectified preyed on and/or triggered#of course hes angry!!!#whenever he gets a sliver of control its snatched from him and used against him in some way#even in s2 hes being ordered to search for max and take her places#tbh thats probably the only reason neil allowed him to have a car
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STILL not over the fact that will told JACK he wanted to run away with HANNIBAL and jack did NOTHING
#“oh you for sure WILL betray us for him? lets use you as prey!”#nbc hannibal#will graham#hannibal#hannibal lecter
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