I enjoyed the series. I just classified it as Christian horror fiction centered around beliefs like the rapture and end times, all of which I don’t believe in.
I recall spending too much time laughing to consider it horror – but then I’ve laughed at a lot of horror movies, too. I think the description fits, so . . . theological fantasy horror fiction. 
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A lot of horror is horror comedy and comedy plays a role in a lot of horror. Essentially everyone’s know who considers themselves a horror nerd laughs at most horror. Most are adults and don’t actually get afraid of it. Just like most adults watching action don’t suddenly think they are in a fight or something. I don’t actually know of any horror fans who are watching horror to get scared. Some get scared I’m sure, just like with anything but personally everyone I knows just enjoys the genre. Especially the kills. The social commentaries and so on.
I had a group of friends at university who did exactly that – they rated horror movies on that basis. They were very annoyed with me because I almost never got scared from the movies they chose.
[A memory I haven’t recalled in years: when I was a senior there was a freshman who took LSD before watching a horror film and would get flashbacks where he found himself experiencing events from the movie. He came to me for help but I can’t remember what help I gave.]
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“If you love Me, keep my commandments”.
If faith is essentially trusting in God, it would seem odd if you claimed to trust Him but then did not do what He asked you to do. Paul gave Abraham as an example of a great man of faith. But do you think he would have done so if Abraham had not bothered to obey God? I very much doubt it. Personally I struggle to obey, but Im not going to pretend obedience isnt important. It’s very important.
Indeed, it’s nonsense.
No.
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”
It is not about obedience it is about love.
And HOW does God say we love Him? He explains that quite thoroughly in Matthew 25 – taking care of His children, because it isn’t God Himself who needs our help anyway.
Like I explained, the problem with obedience is that the lawyers and legalists twist the words with rhetoric until it is meaningless or worse – using the demand for obedience to turn religion into a force of evil, getting good people to do evil things. Jesus saw this frequently as the religious leaders constantly used this to attack Him. And so what did Jesus say when they convicted Him of doing work on the Sabbath? He said, “The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath” IOW the law was given to help us not to trap us as these religious people were doing.
Then there is the simple fact that laws and commandments given 2000 years ago in ancient times has very little to do with the realities we face now. And THEN people twisting these to mean whatever legalisms they want to push on people is outrageous. What does God want? He summarizes it quite well in Isaiah chapter 1:
cease to do evil,
17 learn to do good;
seek justice,
correct oppression;
defend the fatherless,
plead for the widow.
BTW it would be good to read the whole chapter (Isaiah 1) to put this in context. Because it is basically saying it is not about religion and a bunch of laws and ceremonies. God is frankly sick of all that, because they are missing the point (i.e. what I have quoted here).
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But for many horror films affect religious belief. Even for Cardinal O’Connor. Please read what I wrote.
I heard it was very good and would like to see it. it’s not easy being an LDS missionary. Young men are expected to serve a 2-year mission while young women may serve an 18-month mission. Parents end up funding everything. And the young people can sometimes serve in dangerous areas. (probably not as dangerous as this film depicts!)
and of course there was the LDS missionary who converted to Unitarian Universalism and now just rides his bike around aimlessly.
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