Even though it’s close to Halloween, you won’t find me anywhere near a scary movie! Being afraid is a feeling I have generally tried to avoid for as long as I can remember. The sensations, both emotional and physical, are not appealing to me and certainly not comfortable. But what if they might have some benefit? This is a question I began thinking about as I read Kutter Callaway’s latest book, Be Afraid. Kutter, one of my former professors at Fuller Seminary, joins me to talk about the movie genre of horror through psychological and theological lenses and how films that may frighten us may have other effects as well that are far less scary.
Highlights for me include how horror reveals our fears, highlights our fragility, and helps us empathize.
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Mentioned in this episode:
Be Afraid: What Horror Reveals About Facing the Darkness by Kutter Callaway
Be Afraid podcast with Kutter Callaway
The Wrong Kind of Christian – Substack by Kutter Callaway
Will Ferrell on Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Killing in the Name Of: Why Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus is an a/theist, and why that makes The Odyssey a deeply Christian film by Kutter Callaway
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