site admin on February 22nd, 2005

Okay, so I grew up Pentecostal and old ladies used to talk about shooing demons out of their houses with brooms during Sunday School. And so I decide to go watch Constantine, which should actually be called “A movie scary enough to send even the worst Catholic running to the priest for Holy Water.” As a former Pentecostal that started reading articles about spirit travel and having nightmares about demons at the age of nine, it gave me the willies so badly I didn’t sleep for two nights running. What’s the movie about? Psychic and mental patient John Constantine commits suicide; he spends two minutes in hell, returns, and discovers that his hallucinations are real: he can see angels, demons and the “halfbreeds” in-between that are out to influence the world. His occupation? Exorcist, of course. I won’t say more here, in case anyone else is insane enough to go see it. I will recommend this though — see it in the daytime so you don’t have to go home and try to sleep afterward.
P.S. And no hiding behind my bedroom door to jump out at me anymore — you know who you are, and if you do it again, I’ll send my cross-gun toting Holy Water throwing Exorcist after you!
Sweet dreams.