Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen

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Sacred Terror examines the religious elements lurking in horror films. It answers a simple but profound question: When there are so many other scary things around, why is religion so often used to tell a scary story? In this lucid, provocative book, Douglas Cowan argues that horror films are opportune vehicles for externalizing the fears that lie inside our religious selves: of evil, of the flesh, of sacred places, of a change in the sacred order, of the supernatural gone out of control, of death, dying badly, or not remaining dead, of fanaticism, and of the power-and the powerlessness-of religion.