A HAUNTED HOUSE FULL OF GAYS,
RAVE PARTIES, AND INTERNET ROMANCE

retroCRUSH reviews Hell House, a documentary film about a fundamentalist Halloween attraction:

Chick comics, those obnoxious tracts that warn you of the evils of homosexuality, devil worship and Harry Potter books, represent a frightening portion of our populace. As inane and laughable as these little gems are there is an international army of believers who make sure they find their way into the hands of impressionable youths and disabled adults the world over. And once in those hands they too often have the desired affect. The reader becomes a new convert, orders a pile of tracts so he himself may participate in the saving of souls.

A group of like minded, Jesus fearing folks in Texas have created the ultimate experience for fans of Chick tracts and of Born Again culture in general. Imagine being able to enter a Chick tract; where devils entice pregnant teens to take the abortion pill, resulting in a bloody mess of regret and redemption; where the date rape drug makes some voyeuristic demons giddy as a candy girl falls victim to chicken hawk; where homosexuals burn for all eternity; and where Jesus rules full of love and amazing grace. Sound like your kind of surreal experience? Or is it a bit too much?

Stuff like this makes it all too clear that the fundamentalist understanding of reality is quite cartoonish. Pretty sad, pretty dangerous if they convert enough fools. At least the guys at retroCRUSH can get some redeeming value out of it. That is to say, it's less depressing if we point and laugh.

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