Category: Old Scratch

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

A still from the movie Poltergeist: an old school tube tv in a misty dark background. The screen is filled with snow, and two hands press into the snow from inside the television.

Two Nerds watched the most recent movie in the Conjuring universe, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, which is the third to focus on Ed & Loraine Warren, and the eighth overall. We also recently watched The Exorcist…

Continue Reading The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

Cloverfaith

Abed and Britta from the tv show Community sit at a table. Britta is facing Abed, and Abed is looking through a catalog. The words "There's a two-day course called 'Nick Cage: Good or Bad'' runs along the bottom.

The subject of this episode is the ways faith and/or religious doctrine is used differently in explicitly Christian films like The Remaining or Left Behind, and films that use religious lore more like mythology. In this instance our example is…

Continue Reading Cloverfaith