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Religious Horror

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Religious Horror	comment	A Sub-Genre of Horror that relies on presenting the motifs of a real-life religion as fact within the story's universe. In Western examples of this subgenre, that religion is normally Christianity. Satan is the Big Bad in a typical Religious Horror story, although he's rarely shown. He is mediated through a human vessel, such as a Creepy Child or a degenerate rock musician. Sometimes Satan is not much or even at all present in the story, but is instead a distant force of evil responsible for the actual Big Bad in the story. The protagonists are usually innocent people trying to live ordinary lives, not sensing anything wrong until their daughter or son starts speaking in someone else's voice, using foul languages she or he never studied, spewing Finnish pea soup, and/or chanting Satanic praises. Members of the clergy (most likely the Catholic variety; in this case it is justified by the fact that the Catholic church, of all the few that employ exorcism, is the most noted, although it does so very rarely) intervene eventually, with varying degrees of success. If there are human villains, they're evil cultists who facilitate the Devil's activity on Earth (or, rarely, the Puritans of Salem, Massachusetts, if the author is less favorable toward organized religion in general). A variation is a woman giving birth to Satan's child. This type of horror is often written just to cash in on the popularity of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby. Another perspective, more common in recent years, is an inverted one, that of how God Is Evil; the fire and brimstone Disproportionate Retribution aspects of the Old Testament god are built upon to depict Him as the Big Bad. God Is Evil stories have an overlap with the Cosmic Horror Story, as God is often described as alien, omnipotent, invincible and whose nature is impossible to ever comprehend, in a very Lovecraftian style. Our Angels Are Different is usually in effect, with the angels being portrayed as alien and far removed from humanity (it helps that depictions of angels in the Torah and the Old Testament get quite freaky). Occasionally, the story revolves around a Religion of Evil that has nothing to do with Satan, which may or may not replace him with a Satanic Archetype or an Expy in the form of a God of Evil. Even if these are more imaginative in their concepts than the Christianity-based works, they are not necessarily more bizarre. Very rarely, you get a film that actually bothered to do the research, and includes horror either from the point of view of some religion other than Christianity, or more commonly, have another religion as an antagonist (or even more rarely, do both). In the former cases, even if the movie itself is bad, the concept is very interesting. In the latter case, it ends up a variant of type 2, with the added problem of sounding like something from Chick Tracts. (Alternatively, the "enemy" religion can be shown to not be bad in and of itself, with the problems primarily being caused by a group of whackjobs who take it WAY too seriously and/or feel threatened by the existence of the protagonists' religion and act accordingly, although this again veers into Type 2 territory.) See also Cosmic Horror Story, which, as said previously, tends to show up in type 1. If a Cosmic Horror Story's Eldritch Abomination is worshipped as a god, then the story can fit into the second type. Folk Horror is a subtrope focused on "folk" or pagan "old ways". See also The Bible. noreallife
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Religious Horror / int_11ef4051	comment	The Testament of the New Ezekiel in Outlast II, who are a religious cult of fanatical, child-murdering Christians possibly driven mad by a Murkoff experiment who kill every child that's born in the cult in order to prevent the birth of the Antichrist. And then there's their enemies: the Scalled and the Heretics, who are just as violently deranged.
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Religious Horror / int_12e3da65	comment	The Castlevania: Lords of Shadow games have this as a central pillar of the story. The main character, Gabriel Belmont, is part of a christian warrior group called "The Brotherhood of Light", and the plot of the first game is about Gabriel trying to revive his dead wife and restore Earth's displaced connection with the Heavens which prevents dead spirits from moving on. It even turns out that the main antagonist is Satan, who appears in physical form in the story. His main goal is to gain the power of an artifact known as the God Mask, which he believes will allow him to challenge God, his father, as retribution for casting him out.
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Religious Horror / int_134298ca	comment	Immaculate revolves around a young nun who discovers she's pregnant despite being a virgin and comes to realise her convent is hiding a dark secret.
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Religious Horror / int_13bb4300	comment	The original version of The Wicker Man has nature-worshiping pagans living on a small island in northern Scotland. The protagonist is a devout Protestant, and a bit of an asshole, but by the end, he's become very sympathetic. Interestingly, the ending of the original was almost meddled to have it start raining, putting out the wicker man. This was cut because it clashed with the whole point. A deleted scene showed that the sacrifice worked, but it was deleted to leave the ambiguity in place. Also interestingly, it arguably falls under an intersection of the first category and the third; the historic Celtic pagans, which the islanders claim to be, are recorded â€” admittedly by the Romans Caesar and Strabo â€” to have used "wicker man" sacrifice in the event of a bad harvest. It is certainly less disputed that the Celts practiced human sacrifice. There is a departure from what even the Romans record, though, in that there was no requirement that the sacrifice be a virgin or a representative of authority; indeed, it seems that the peoples who practised this custom sacrificed criminals and delinquents whenever possible.
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Religious Horror / int_13c53781	comment	From Hell, starring Johnny Depp, based on the comic book series of the same name.
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Religious Horror / int_15331628	comment	Babysitter Wanted (2008) has a babysitter who eventually learns that the man who has broken into her home is trying to kill her charge, who is the literal son of the Devil.
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Religious Horror / int_16b30b5f	comment	Angel Hare is an unusual case. The series features a mysterious entity (who claims to be the Archangel Gabriel) hijacking a Christian cartoon and speaking directly to Jonah while he's watching, giving him advice that, while useful, is not what one would expect from a religious edutainment character. On top of that, Angel Gabby's friend Francis alludes to the existence of demon hares in a side video. Ultimately, the series is a subversion: Gabby is totally benevolent, if a bit pragmatic, demon hares never make an appearance, and the real horror is from totally mundane sources: the first season focuses on Jonah's repressed trauma related to his abusive father, and the second focuses on his guilt complex and the sheer scale of the Internet in his attempts to track down Gabby.
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Religious Horror / int_18135672	comment	Holocaust 2000 (one of several films following in the wake of The Omen), which revolves around The Antichrist being born at the end of the second millennium and utilizing nuclear technology to bring about the apocalypse.
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Religious Horror / int_18308d83	comment	The Sentinel (1977): A woman moves into an apartment building that turns out to house the gates of hell.
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Religious Horror / int_1d900682	comment	The Dybbuk is based on Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, about a woman who is possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved.
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Religious Horror / int_1f0bc3d3	comment	Many of the early one-shot Hellboy stories revolve around this, particularly The Chained Coffin. Has become less prominent in recent years, as subsequent story arcs have revealed more of the Hellboy-verse's cosmology, which is more like a mix of Gnosticism & 1920s weird pulp fiction than Christianity.
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Religious Horror / int_20bac83b	comment	In the 1999 film The Ninth Gate, book collector Dean Corso is called to retrieve a book of The Nine Gates, causing many scary things to happen such as people dying, Corso himself nearly getting killed by people who want the book for themselves for satanic purposes, and being followed around by a mysterious blonde woman only known as The Girl.
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Religious Horror / int_20cb7506	comment	Everything in The Conjuring series. The Nun is obviously the most blatant example, but they all follow ordinary people who've been attacked by demons for whatever reason (they bought a house where a witch performed Satanic rites, a demon pretended to be their dead daughter in a Creepy Doll, their convent was bombed and reopened a portal to hell...) and need to rely on Christian rituals to get rid of them.
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Religious Horror / int_21f43c53	comment	Craig Skipp's and John Spector's The Scream, a novel that uses the Satanic Panic as a backdrop. The novel revolves around the titular rock band, which is accused of being Satanic, but actually serves a demon named Momma that the band's manager met in Vietnam.
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Religious Horror / int_234035fa	comment	Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: The titular god, Sigmar, is usually written as a God of Good, albeit a very pragmatic kind of good, since that's what's necessary to beat back the Chaos Gods. Having said that, it's been shown that while Sigmar might be good, he still has followers that become fanatical, self-righteous, and power-mad. The most noteworthy examples of this are Stormcast Eternals who Came Back Wrong; the Stormcast are supposed to be paragons of good and righteousness, but coming Back from the Dead chips away a little more of their soul every time Sigmar reforges them, eventually turning them into a Black-and-White Insanity Knight Templar. Imagine a golden warrior forged from the soul of one of humanity's greatest heroes, coldly butchering "rebellious" citizenry, sparing only those as fanatical and dogmatic as they are, all while praising their god in cold, hollow, emotionless voices. Thankfully they're the minority (especially compared to their 40k counterparts) and Sigmar is working to fix the problem, but it speaks volumes that one of the most terrifying things in the setting can, under the wrong circumstances, be its greatest heroes.
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Religious Horror / int_26c4b445	comment	Rosemary's Baby is the iconic story of a woman giving birth to The Antichrist.
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Religious Horror / int_26f6d20d	comment	Onyx Equinox doesn't hold punches in regards to its depictions of Mesoamerican beliefs. Not only is the world full of eldritch monsters, but it occasionally explores the cosmic horror of the gods having created and destroyed humanity many times.
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Religious Horror / int_286ba911	comment	Keeper of the Swords: a fantasy series with heavy religious horror overtones, set in a world that is nearing an apocalypse ordained by an evil Crystal Dragon Jesus, with the protagonist being shanghaied by unknown forces to accept the mantle of this world's Antichrist.
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Religious Horror / int_28a0e7d9	comment	The Possession is all about demonic possession and exorcism. This time, it is with a Jewish theme.
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Religious Horror / int_295048d5	comment	Bloodborne features the Healing Church. Despite being visually based off Gothic and Christian imagery, the Healing Church worships the Great Ones and uses magic blood that can cure any ailment to control the city of Yharnam, killing dissenters and being indirectly but knowingly responsible for the Scourge of the Beast ravaging the city. The Great Ones themselves (notably Oedon) are all notably and feverishly seeking out surrogate children without caring much for the well-being of humans or other life, and the Healing Church has also long been abusing their newly obtained abilities and the Great Ones themselves to try and keep themselves in power; it doesn't end well for the latter.
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Religious Horror / int_2a786b7f	comment	The world of Darklands is our 15th century Europe, except that the Catholic mythology is literally real (as are many other folk legends from central Europe). For one, the many Catholic saints featured in the game will actually listen to prayers if one is pious enough, bestowing all kinds of helpful benefits. Secondly, the game's Big Bad is Baphomet, one of the demons of later Christian mythology, who is using Satanic cults in an effort to bring on the apocalypse.
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Religious Horror / int_2b2707d5	comment	We Summon the Darkness is a subversion, and a satire of the "Satanic Panic" of The '80s. The "Satanist" villains are actually born-again Christians staging a fake Satanic murder spree in order to scare people back into the church.
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Religious Horror / int_30876163	comment	Blue Exorcist is one where the main character is Satan's son who sets out to kill Satan after he kills his adoptive dad.
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Religious Horror / int_31313512	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_31313512	comment	ANNO: Mutationem: Though the story takes place in a Post-Cyberpunk setting, there are various elements pertaining to this. The Eldritch Location called Limen is an enormous crater that brings out supernatural phenomena with a humongous cross emerging from its center when being surrounded by Creepy Crosses, the world of Hinterland itself has demented crosses over a hellish landscape, including skeletal marked crosses.
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Religious Horror / int_31aedabc	comment	The Cthulhu Mythos often falls into the Religion of Evil version below, but even its official stance is this. There is no God, nor is there a Devil. There are entities of tremendous power such that humans would call them divine and deific, but these entities, due to their power, have no more concern for humanity than humanity as a whole would care for a dust-scurrying bug. Morality is a human creation, and humans are most certainly not special. Humanity must make worth of their own life, they have no inherent worth as a race. Also, more traditional gods do sorta exist, but only in the mystical Dream Land created from humanity (and all other sentient life)'s collective unconscious. There is a creator deity known as Azatoth who is responsible for creating our universe, but he's not sentient in the traditional sense and exists as a formless mass of chaos outside physical reality. He's referred to as the "Blind Idiot God".
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Religious Horror / int_3640879a	comment	The Shrine has an interesting twist. At first, the viewer believes the small Polish village is involved in Satanic rituals with Human Sacrifice, but it turns out that they are only exorcising the tourists who unknowingly approach a demon statue that possesses them.
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Religious Horror / int_365e9759	comment	A Wolf in the Soul presents a werewolf story from the point of view of Orthodox Judaism.
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Religious Horror / int_36bc9faa	comment	The Day of the Beast follows a priest who has prophesized the second coming... of Satan.
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Religious Horror / int_39fa5084	comment	The Unholy features a woman named Alice who has the ability to perform miracles due to the blessing of who she believes is the spirit of Mother Mary. This film carries heavy themes of religion and faith, and explores the damage that could occur when a malevolent entity impersonates a religious icon.
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Religious Horror / int_3a44e6f	comment	Angel Sanctuary, which is also a subversion in that the demons are neither good nor evil and the Big Bad Rosiel is an angel working for God Himself.
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Religious Horror / int_3ad3669	comment	Children of the Corn featured a cult based around "He Who Walks Behind the Rows," revealed at the end of the story to be a demonic-looking monster. In the movie versions, it's revamped to be an entire, nearly omnipresent (within and around the town) spirit whose influence increases when it starts to get dark. Though it is implied to be a devil-worshiping cult, it is never outright stated to be a demon or Satan. It's referred to with pronouns by those who don't worship it. The Dark Tower eventually revealed that He Who Walks Behind The Rows is another name for Big Bad Randall Flagg, who is also the main villain of The Stand and The Eyes of The Dragon.
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Religious Horror / int_3be12f54	comment	Termight from Nemesis the Warlock is pretty much this, with religion worshiping Hate To All Aliens. It was based on the Spanish Inquisition.
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Religious Horror / int_3c33bf0f	comment	Demon: The Fallen is made for this. In the Crapsack World of the Old World of Darkness, you play a Fallen Angel that possesses the body of a human, not only potentially being a source of religious horror to humans, but also a victim to it, especially due to the Earthbound, demons that have become so debased over millennia that they became rather like dark gods or Eldritch Abominations that run on human faith. And just might want to enslave or eat you.
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Religious Horror / int_3f214754	comment	I'm the Grim Reaper is a deconstruction of Protestant Christianity. It's set in a world where God was the first being in existence, and did create the universe, humanity, the Devil, Heaven, and Hell. Then it goes on to give explanations to why God would even care about a trillion pathetic humans, and the answer is horrifyingly apathetic, resulting in a monstrous world where corruption and eternal torment is not just tolerated but desired by God, all without Them being actively sadistic.
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Religious Horror / int_419d1ce0	comment	Errementari, a tale about a man striking a literal Deal with the Devil and later going to Hell (in all its Hieronymus Bosch flavor).
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Religious Horror / int_42ffb88e	comment	Again, the SCP Foundation have a few of these, most notably SCP-231-7.
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Religious Horror / int_432e5c6f	comment	Stone Ocean: Pucci's Made In Heaven invokes elements of the Book of Revelation, specifically, the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, with the Horseman of Conquest coming to mind. Given that Pucci's plan is bring forth a universal end/restart, it's thematically appropriate.
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Religious Horror / int_43576f5	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_43576f5	comment	Seasons 4 and 5 of Supernatural, what with the impending apocalypse and all. The forces of Heaven and Hell continue to be a problem afterwards, but the show eventually slides into an All Myths Are True mythology.
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Religious Horror / int_43abaff4	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_43abaff4	comment	The Exorcist is about a child who is possessed by a murderous demon, forcing the mother to try to convince the local church to give her an exorcism.
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Religious Horror / int_44245363	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_44245363	comment	With the exception of Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, the series feature Human Sacrifice in order to keep some sort of Hellgate sealed up. Fatal Frame II's sacrifice is probably the least Squicky of the examples (Fatal Frame involves a Virgin Sacrifice being torn apart by ropes attached to her legs, arms, and neck; Fatal Frame III is much worse). However, in the second game, there is another ritual that must be performed if the first can't be done for some reason. It involves torturing an outsider to death with the clear intent to cause as much suffering as possible for the Hellish Abyss to be temporarily placated.
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Religious Horror / int_444e73d4	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_444e73d4	comment	Dylan Dog often features literal devils and multiple Hells directly interacting with our hero for various reasons (one in particular seems to have had his subordinates deal with him so often he just wishes for anyone else to be an enemy).
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Religious Horror / int_44fe781e	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_44fe781e	comment	For Western audiences, Neon Genesis Evangelion primarily because it takes Christian/Jewish symbols traditionally associated with good (crosses, Angels, haloes, etc) and uses them in what is otherwise a Cosmic Horror Story.
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Religious Horror / int_474c18c1	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_474c18c1	comment	BioShock Infinite features a very twisted but still recognizable version of Christianity. Father Comstock claims an angel came to him with an order from God to build Columbia, a hyper-Christian-American xenophobic flying city that doubles as a superweapon, and use it to cleanse "the Sodom below". Since then, he has tried grooming his child Elizabeth, who is repeatedly referred to as "the lamb", to complete his holy task. Warped religious imagery is found throughout Columbia, most of its citizens are more than willing to kill and be killed if Comstock tells them to, and Comstock has total control over the government. The entire story only happened because an alternate version of Booker severely misunderstood the concept of baptism. Whereas Booker saw baptism as the fresh start it's supposed to represent, Comstock saw baptism as "all my sins are justified by God, and nothing I do is wrong".
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Religious Horror / int_48e57619	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_48e57619	comment	The Backwater Gospel features this with the town's priest deciding that the Undertaker will only go away once someone diesâ€¦ so they need to make someone die. Everyone dies in the ensuing all-out brawl.
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Religious Horror / int_4997726d	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_4997726d	comment	Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2: The brotherhood has been under the thrall of Satan's spawn for some time, and the Antichrist has taken over the church in Castlevania City. He has turned half the believers into Satan-worshiping madmen, who praise inequality, torture, and despair as their gospel. All those statues in the courtyard? Satanists who were live buried in plaster specifically to murder any supernatural threats to the Antichrist.
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Religious Horror / int_4b13e9e4	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_4b13e9e4	comment	Revelations (2005) was about an astrophysicist and a Catholic nun trying to avert the End of the Days.
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Religious Horror / int_4c56381b	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_4c56381b	comment	The Binding of Isaac is about a young boy (the eponymous Isaac) who hides in a basement filled with horrific creatures and Christian symbolism in order to escape his fanatical mother, who believes God wants her to kill Isaac as proof of her faith.
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Religious Horror / int_4d49c6a1	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_4d49c6a1	comment	Evil (2019) is about a trainee priest, a techie and a psychologist teaming up to distinguish between real and false hauntings and possessions; many of them turn out to be real and linked to a diabolical conspiracy to corrupt humanity.
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Religious Horror / int_51bddf17	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_51bddf17	comment	KULT is based on a very dark take on Gnosticism, heavily emphasizing the concept of the world being a lie and a prison meant to keep humanity ignorant and hobbled as well as the power and malice of the powers that made and rule it, while portraying humanity as particularly helpless in the face of all the malice arrayed against it and, in the end, not significantly morally better than their jailors anyway.
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Religious Horror / int_526e9e90	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_526e9e90	comment	Mandela Catalogue has shades of this, with the alternates implied to have been meddling with humanity since biblical times and the "Metaphysical Awareness Disorder" video advising people to avoid religion all together. Probably the biggest example, however, is the revelation that Satan has disguised himself as the Archangel Gabriel and has proclaimed himself as the true saviour to win humanity's trust so that he may conquer Earth with help from the shape-shifting Alternates.
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Religious Horror / int_56df3449	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_56df3449	comment	The Reaping features the return of the Ten Biblical Plagues of Egypt, now returning to the modern-day American South.
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Religious Horror / int_576f1f6d	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_576f1f6d	comment	Jigoku, a very graphic depiction of the horrors of Buddhist Hell.
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Religious Horror / int_57978c41	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_57978c41	comment	All three antagonist groups of Space Sheriff Gavan, Space Sheriff Sharivan, and Space Sheriff Shaider, especially with Shaider. It does not help that nearly every Monster of the Week has nightmarish powers.
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Religious Horror / int_585e6ed6	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_585e6ed6	comment	[REC]: While the infection certainly has a biological aspect, the end of the first movie strongly suggests, and the sequel confirms, that Demonic Possession also has a part in it.
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Religious Horror / int_58808436	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_58808436	comment	Like its sister series, Umineko: When They Cry deals with this, only rather than Shinto it revolves around Western occult lore. Most notable are the Stakes of Purgatory (who all represent the Seven Deadly Sins), and the various demons from the Ars Goetia.
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Religious Horror / int_58f9e49e	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_58f9e49e	comment	The Wailing starts as a thriller taking place in a small Korean village, but the crimes are quickly rumored to be caused by something supernatural, and a Catholic priest as well as a shaman are called to defeat the source of the evil that has cursed the town. The director studied both Christianity and Korean shamanism thoroughly to be as accurate as possible, so that when the Japanese man reveals his true nature to the priest, followers of both religions would see him as the ultimate evil.
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Religious Horror / int_59f30a41	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_59f30a41	comment	Ghost Hound becomes a ShintÅ� variant of this, as emphasis shifts to the town's Mystery Cult and its transfer of power.
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Religious Horror / int_5c7ad80c	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_5c7ad80c	comment	Bless the Child, starring Kim Basinger , features a Satanic cult trying to capture a girl with psychic powers.
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Religious Horror / int_5e91c7d	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_5e91c7d	comment	Resident Evil 4, the Los Illuminados cult mixes this with traditional zombie-styled horror.
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Resident Evil 4 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Religious Horror / int_5e91c7d
Religious Horror / int_5f42f94c	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_5f42f94c	comment	Jour J: The Volume La Secte de Nazareth runs on this; New Testament figures are reimagined as terrorists and quotes from said testament are used to justify atrocities: They use greek fire to bomb major roman towns, slaughtering of non-combatants and are led by an un-martyred Jesus who looks distinctly like Osama bin Laden.
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Religious Horror / int_5fc1f6df	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_5fc1f6df	comment	Spawn derives heavily from Christianity, although it later brings in All Myths Are True. Whether a soul goes to Heaven to Hell is not dependent on morality, but through bartering between the two sides, who see most humans as cannon fodder, and both sides want the Ax-Crazy high-functioning psychopaths on their war rosters. The most obvious example is the use of God and Satan Are Both Jerks in the Armageddon story line, which takes the concept to nightmarish levels; God and Satan are literally exactly the same. They are both vicious, sadistic, petty monsters who regard humanity as nothing more than toys for them to break. At the end of the storyline, the devout Grandma Simmons can only spit vehement denials as to God's claims to be God, weeping that the "evil, monstrous child" cannot be the benevolent savior she has believed in all her life. Technically, she's right. Realistically, the True Creator still doesn't care that much.
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Religious Horror / int_600454b2	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_600454b2	comment	Always Visible: As such, there is no horror in the work at all, but one of Galbraith's nightmares mentions a dark room in which mister chief inspector Schaeymoure read him a strange speech about believing in a criminal, after which it turns out that all this time it was a wooden mannequin made by doctor Baselard.
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Religious Horror / int_6053d9f9	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_6053d9f9	comment	The Silent Hill games have this for the Type 2 cult that summons/awakens the town's latent evil. In the third game, when the deity/demon The Order worships appears, the main character whimpers "This is God?".
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Religious Horror / int_62203e9d	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_62203e9d	comment	The Devil's Advocate features Satan in the form of the head of a New York law firm, and the protagonist as his son.
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Religious Horror / int_64e4c87	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_64e4c87	comment	The House of the Devil deals with a babysitter and a group of Satanists.
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Religious Horror / int_663d3285	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_663d3285	comment	The Pope's Exorcist is a horror film based around a real life Vatican exorcist attempting to exorcise a demon from a young boy.
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Religious Horror / int_6744d821	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House at first seems to be an "Other Religions" example, as the Big Bad of the show is a theocratic emperor and prophet for a being called the Titan that make up the Boiling Isles. "Hollow Mind" reveals that Belos is actually a puritan witch hunter who co-opted the belief system of the isles (or created it wholesale) as part of his goal to commit genocide against the witches, which immediately reframes the very Christian-like aesthetics Belos has for most of the show.
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Religious Horror / int_691be369	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_691be369	comment	The X-Files had its share of this. All Souls is a good example.
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Religious Horror / int_696c8ec0	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_696c8ec0	comment	The titular Mister Frost is a serial killer who, having been shuttled from mental institution to mental institution after being caught two years prior, reveals to the one doctor he's willing to speak to â€” one Sarah Day, who does not believe in religion â€” that he is actually Satan in human form. She initially dismisses his claims as the same nonsense as many patients who've come through the facility before have spouted, but it soon becomes clear he does have supernatural abilities. His Evil Plan is to make her believe in him to the point that she'll be willing to murder his Earthly form, which will ruin her life, all so he can regain the power he's lost in the last century due to people coming to believe that Evil is mental deviance or human cruelty rather than a force in and of itself. Interestingly, while Christian iconography does appear in the film, this Satan hearkens back to the Old Testament in that he doesn't want to conquer humanity, but rather regain his edge in the Cosmic Chess Game he plays with God.
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Religious Horror / int_69ceb72e	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_69ceb72e	comment	Devilman, where a teenager must become a half-demon Superhero in order to fight off Satan's hordes, may well be the codifier for this trope in Anime & Manga, having come out in 1972 and introduced many in Japan to Abrahamic legends, and would go on to inspire works like the below-mentioned Evangelion.
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Religious Horror / int_6abf16c2	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_6abf16c2	comment	The Big Finish Doctor Who audio The Devil's Armada. Priest holes, Catholic persecution, demons, imps and the Devil himself.
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Religious Horror / int_6bee0f78	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_6bee0f78	comment	Not exactly treated as a religion of evil, but Voodoo is not framed in the best light in The Serpent and the Rainbow.
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Religious Horror / int_6cc7497b	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_6cc7497b	comment	Castlevania and its sequel Castlevania: Nocturne. In both series, there are Corrupt Churches that heavily relay on summoning monsters, performing sacrifices, planning on using Dracula's invasion to rebuild the world.
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Religious Horror / int_705bb59a	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_705bb59a	comment	Vampire: The Masquerade had strong elements of casting Kindred as the Damned, starting with vampirism itself being a manifestation of the Curse of Caine, the first murderer. The very idea of Gothic Punk that Vampire codified was half-based in the visual elements of decaying cathedrals. Of course, this was dialed up with the Gehenna supplement, and the majority of scenarios end with God himself passing His judgement on vampirekind in some way (the only one that doesn't is instead about Lilith and Caine). The clearest possible example comes from the "Wormwood" scenario, where God sends a red star and miasma down to Earth to wipe vampire-kind quietly off the Earth, and only a handful of vampires are Chosen to take refuge in a broken-down cathedral for forty days (a metaphor for Noah's Ark) and prove that they are worthy to be allowed to live as humans.
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Religious Horror / int_713fa68e	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_713fa68e	comment	Silent Hill: Promise seems to be crossing into this, especially in the church.
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Religious Horror / int_71995767	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_71995767	comment	Prince of Darkness is about a bunch of theology students trying to stop the The Antichrist from releasing his father, The Anti-God. It's a sort of deconstruction of the Religious Horror sub-genre, because most of the characters aren't theology students. Instead, they're scientists of one kind or another, four or five of whom are under the direct tutelage of a physics professor who had been selected for a series of televised debates with a Catholic priest because of his philosophical beliefs on science. Those debates happen before the story begins, and the two characters seem to be very good friends when the movie starts. To be fair, when speaking of said professor, one student says that "he wants philosophers, not scientists", so it is a little open to debate or interpretation.
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Religious Horror / int_71a53192	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_71a53192	comment	The Wii survival horror game Cursed Mountain plays with the taboos, traditions, and underlying horrors of Himalayan Buddhism as its central theme.
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Religious Horror / int_71c35408	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_71c35408	comment	Midnight Mass (2021) follows strange supernatural events occurring when a new priest brings upon miracles on a sleepy little town. The fervent religiosity taking over the town even as things begin to take a darker turn, as well as Beverly Keane justifying horrible things by quoting the scripture, are part of the horror.
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Religious Horror / int_72b14fbc	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_72b14fbc	comment	The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow follows the examination of a photo containing possible evidence of a Greco-Roman cult in Northern Ontario, connected with the disappearances of over one-hundred children. Though not Satanic in nature, the cult is explicitly presented as anti-Christian.
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Religious Horror / int_766babbf	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_766babbf	comment	Angel Heart has some really creepy religious elements. It turns out at the end the entire plot was orchestrated by Satan himself, who hired Johnny Favourite to condemn himself to Hell.
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Religious Horror / int_771fee7	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_771fee7	comment	Valhalla Rising, one of the many interpretations of the film has the Christians being punished by the Gods of nature for killing their worshipers.
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Religious Horror / int_7a7a1a46	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_7a7a1a46	comment	AlienÂ³ focuses on Ripley crash-landing on the prison planet Fury 161, which is filled with XYY chromosome-only prisoners who use religion as a means to redeem themselves for their dark history of rape, murder, kidnapping, drug dealing, torture, assault, and child molestation. The Xenomorph comes off as more demonic and controlling than the ones from the previous two films, even mind-raping the prisoner Golic, an already disturbed man, into aiding it to escape a trap. However, most of the religious horror comes from the much longer Assembly Cut of the film, in which Dillon compares the Xenomorph to a herald of the apocalypse, which Ripley later agrees with, stating that if the alien ever got loose on Earth, it would be devastating. In the infamous unmade Vincent Ward 'wooden planet' version, it's outright said that the Xenomorph is a demon, and the ending blatantly rips off The Exorcist, with the character of Brother John dying exactly like Father Karras does; he even 'exorcises' the Xenomorph out of Ripley. To say that this would've outraged fans far more than the final film ever could is an understatement.
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Religious Horror / int_7a9b7b3d	comment	Antrum is an interesting example of this. The framing device is that of a supposedly cursed movie that caused a number of people to die after seeing it. The internal story within the titular movie has two children trying to dig a hole to hell to save their dog's soul. The movie is purposefully vague as to whether or not they actually did manage to awaken something demonic.
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Religious Horror / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman villain Deacon Blackfire, who originally appeared in the miniseries The Cult, wasn't originally Christian, but when he reappeared in The New 52 (the original Blackfire died when his cultists turned on him and tore him apart), he had been changed into an evangelist leading a cult out of Arkham Asylum. This version is also killed by his followers when he refuses to kill himself to prove his piety.
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Religious Horror / int_7cd93fed	comment	The Prophecy and its two sequels, The Prophecy II and The Prophecy 3: The Ascent, are about another war in heaven with Christopher Walken as the Archangel Gabriel.
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Religious Horror / int_7dcc80c6	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_7dcc80c6	comment	Chrono Crusade was meant to be this, with the main character being an exorcist, but while still a wonderful story, it is not as scary as it was intended to be.
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Religious Horror / int_7ea4fd21	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_7ea4fd21	comment	The Skyfishers from Wasteland 3 are a faction of people who formely lived underground, and upon seeingthe sky for the first time came to view it as divine. They have essentially re-captured a hellish mix of various pre-Columbian spiritual and religious beliefs: The Skyfishers believe the sky to be alive (much like some Great Plains beliefs), and to coax its favour they must provide the sky with Human Sacrifice (similarly to the Aztecs). They do this by capturing enemies, flaying them alive, and making kites from their skins from which they fly their victims so the sky will see their devotion and make it rain. Skyfisher territory tends to be flush with human kites, and they are viewed as The Dreaded by most other factions in Colorado.
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Religious Horror / int_7ea5e84	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_7ea5e84	comment	We Know the Devil presents the inverted perspective discussed, though it seems to follow the more conventional form at first. God is described as an oppressive, stifling presence who demands that the queer protagonists cast one of their own out for merely being a little worse. The devil, on the other hand, wants the characters to be free of the expectations forced on them. In the true ending, the characters embrace the parts of themselves they were taught to hate, and cast off their earthly forms, becoming the three worst girls since Eve.
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Religious Horror / int_7f880c1d	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_7f880c1d	comment	Requiem (2021): A Period Piece set in 1605 England during the witch hunts, exploring how any woman who in some way was suspicious or nonconforming (such as by being a lesbian) had to face the risk of a witchcraft accusation and the fate this brought.
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Religious Horror / int_82720898	comment	Petaybee: Shepherd Howling's Nightmare Fuel cult is heavily influenced by Christianity, most evidently in the title "shepherd".
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Religious Horror / int_879f0a34	comment	The White People is a vastly more subtle example than most. The story combines The Fair Folk, Eldritch Location, Unseen Evil, and Children Are Innocent with references to classic narrative poems to create a covertly religious horror/Folk Horror tale. However, the frame story, in which one gentleman discusses the "infernal miracle" with a friend of his, reveals that Satan is afoot in the woods explored by the young heroine.
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Religious Horror / int_88b580f0	comment	Werewolf: The Apocalypse features the religious tradition of the Black Spiral Dancers, a tribe of evil werewolves who worship the Wyrm (the god of decay and destruction). As a rite of passage, every member of the tribe walks through the Black Spiral Labyrinth, a spiritual dimension that leads them through through the Wyrm's broken mind and corrupts their body and soul. Book of the Wyrm and Chronicles of the Black Labyrinth provide information on Wyrmish theology and the elaborate pantheon of totem spirits, Urge Wyrms, Elemental Wyrms, and their Maeljin Incarna. Some human Wyrm cults, such as the Seventh Generation and the Pretanic Order, borrow heavily from Black Spiral Dancer tradition.
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Religious Horror / int_89a2f1d7	comment	Unicorn Wars: The teddy bears have a religion based on Catholicism with the unicorns serving as devil figures. Their military expedition to wipe them out quickly devolves into a Cosmic Horror Story.
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Religious Horror / int_8f8233e	comment	The aptly-titled Blasphemous is built around the more morbid elements of Christianity (specifically Spanish Catholicism), particularly focusing on the obsession with guilt, penitence, and martyrdom. The world of Cvstodia abounds in warped Catholic imagery and faux Latin terminology, and lore reveals that the land used to be ruled by The Theocracy who preached a religion defined by the need to suffer endlessly to atone for one's inherent sinfulness. Then came the Age of Corruption, when the Grievous Miracle arose and transformed the land into a hellscape by warping its people into hideously maimed yet undying monstrosities as living manifestations of their guilt and their obsession with being punished for it. The player is presented with equal ambiguous evidence as to whether this happened because the Grievous Miracle is a cruel, sadistic monster, because it is lashing out at a Corrupt Church that tried to twist and exploit its power, or if it is merely genuinely trying to grant people their wishes... and in a culture obsessed with the need to suffer to prove their spiritual virtue, this is what people genuinely wish for. The sequel, Blasphemous II, deals with a resurgence of the Grievous Miracle and a fresh wave of horror, mutation and madness. The Penitent One is revived from the dead to halt the efforts of the Miracle to spawn a new Dark Messiah to give it guidance and restore its rule over the land.
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Religious Horror / int_902ab702	comment	Archangel from The Fear Mythos embodies this for all religions. He is the afterlife and the only way to not become his slave after death is to sell your soul to the Slender Man â€” which is hardly a better alternative. This was also a central theme of The Refugees, a Slenderblog revolving largely around a Fundamentalist Christian sect who believed the Slender Man was an angel. It was the central theme of supplementary story The Transcend Manuscript.
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Religious Horror / int_9096e12c	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_9096e12c	comment	This trope is the very essence of CarnivÃ le.
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Religious Horror / int_924b6d63	comment	Xenogears: There is an entire Religion of Evil to start with, but it goes From Bad to Worse towards the end when you discover Deus, creator of humanity, is a malevolent interstellar weapon who created humanity to repair his organic parts. Somewhat closer to Type 1, Deus, despite being responsible for creating most of that planet's human population, turns out to be a false god. The real "God" shows up in the form of the enigmatic "Wave Existence", who created the whole universe... apparently by accident, which, in some ways, is even more terrifying, especially since he has no particular interest in His creations and just wants to go home. He's not a bad guy, though, and does help our heroes along eventually.
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Religious Horror / int_9257f03b	comment	The Nordic pagan cult in Midsommar orchestrates some gruesome human sacrifices.
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Religious Horror / int_94377b17	comment	Steel Ball Run: It is revealed that the cross-country race is part of Funny Valentine's agenda of collecting the scattered corpse of Jesus. After combining them together, Valentine's D4C evolves and create an effect which draws good fortune toward him and casts misfortune onto innocents, playing on miracles in the New Testament.
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Religious Horror / int_9d84525b	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_9d84525b	comment	Don't Chat with Strangers: In the player character's room there is a cross on a wall. Turning it upside-down causes a big shadowy cross to descend into the room and eventually the player character appears crucified on it and slowly dies. The cross will invert itself during the conversation with the mysterious girl if you say that your favorite color is red (because that's the color of Hell), saying "jeez" (as in "Jesus Christ") or saying you don't like the Christian God.
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Religious Horror / int_9e013bb5	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_9e013bb5	comment	The Golem is a Jewish horror movie about what happens when someone tries to channel the power of God through the kabbalah without the ability to control it.
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Religious Horror / int_9ee01750	comment	The VVitch is set in 1600s New England, where a Puritan family is banished from their village and must set out on their own into the wilderness, where they are tormented by the title creature.
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Religious Horror / int_a6a7f785	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_a6a7f785	comment	Hell Girl is one with Japanese Buddhism and other Japanese folklore, with the titular character sending people to hell, showing them karmic nightmares, because someone wrote their name on her website.
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Religious Horror / int_a6ece007	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_a6ece007	comment	The entirety of the Imperium of Man has religious overtones, from the ten-mile-long space cathedrals with broadside guns to the priests that inspire the Imperial Guard to heights of courage to the flamethrower-wielding power-armored nuns.
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Religious Horror / int_aa08b12e	comment	Lady Death in its original incarnation featured Christian elements with the main protagonist being a damned soul who usurped Lucifer's throne and became ruler of Hell, but not before being cursed with being trapped there unless all of humanity is wiped out. The following Armageddon would be a plot-point with Death clashing with the Forces of Heaven and the treasonous elements of Hell given this comic was published during the turn of the Millennium, but after 2000, the comic was rebooted as a Dark Fantasy that downplayed several of the religious elements with the demons and angels being present, but the setting wasn't necessarily Hell anymore, but another afterlife plane that was neither good or evil.
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Religious Horror / int_aa48b0d5	comment	Eye of the Devil revolves around a Town with a Dark Secret â€” namely, it's a Satanic cult. The cult has taken on much of the iconography and symbolism of the Catholic Church, including black masses that look a lot like the regular Mass, and the use of crosses and Christian symbolism for their human sacrifice.
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Religious Horror / int_ab7c54de	comment	The sequel, Blasphemous II, deals with a resurgence of the Grievous Miracle and a fresh wave of horror, mutation and madness. The Penitent One is revived from the dead to halt the efforts of the Miracle to spawn a new Dark Messiah to give it guidance and restore its rule over the land.
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Religious Horror / int_ae6fbe0	comment	It's woven into the groundwork of "Sennentuntschi" what with the un-Christian-like behavior of the herdsmen, but some versions call special attention to it. In "Die Unze", a priest needs to get involved to banish the doll. In "Die Schintemunt-Alm", it's the fact that the men don't respect food as God's gift by play-feeding a doll that causes it to come to life. In "Die Puppe auf Klariden", the leader likens his creation of the doll to God's creation of humans and declares it not that big a deal.
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Religious Horror / int_b0028436	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean: Pucci's Made In Heaven invokes elements of the Book of Revelation, specifically, the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, with the Horseman of Conquest coming to mind. Given that Pucci's plan is bring forth a universal end/restart, it's thematically appropriate. Steel Ball Run: It is revealed that the cross-country race is part of Funny Valentine's agenda of collecting the scattered corpse of Jesus. After combining them together, Valentine's D4C evolves and create an effect which draws good fortune toward him and casts misfortune onto innocents, playing on miracles in the New Testament.
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Religious Horror / int_b24648fc	comment	FAITH: The Unholy Trinity is about a priest that, despite lacking Vatican approval, returns to the site of a failed exorcism to finish the job, having to fend off monstrous and malevolent demons and Satanists in his quest to put the victim's soul to rest.
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Religious Horror / int_b6d1e59b	type	Religious Horror
Religious Horror / int_b6d1e59b	comment	The Senpou Temple in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is a Buddhist temple whose monks have basically completely abandoned the teachings of the Buddha on the impermanence of the self, and kidnap and do horrible experiments on children in the pursuit of immortality, with truly messed up results.
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Religious Horror / int_b980183a	comment	Stigmata, starring Gabriel Byrne as the protagonist, Father Andrew Kiernan.
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Religious Horror / int_b99a414f	comment	End of Days, starring Gabriel Byrne as The Devil, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the protagonist Jericho Cane, a retired cop.
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Religious Horror / int_bcadd7cb	comment	The Warhammer 40,000 setting occasionally veers into this; there's an entire chapter of the Inquisition devoted to hunting down Daemons and banishing them back to the Warp, supported by a specially-trained chapter of the Space Marines. Said Space Marine chapter number is 666. The entirety of the Imperium of Man has religious overtones, from the ten-mile-long space cathedrals with broadside guns to the priests that inspire the Imperial Guard to heights of courage to the flamethrower-wielding power-armored nuns. From the Chaos side, we have the Word Bearers Traitor Legion. While all of the other Traitor Legions fly the banners of the the Dark Gods to at least some degree, the Word Bearers treat Chaos Undivided as an organized religion, complete with Creepy Cathedrals, dark rituals, and ominous prayers serving as battle-cries.
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Religious Horror / int_be03a5ee	comment	Graphic depictions of Rapture fiction like Left Behind and Christ Clone Trilogy series can easily become this, whether intended by the author or not.
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Religious Horror / int_bf22eee	comment	Many of Frank Perretti's novels have elements of this, one of the most prominent being, The Visitation.
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Religious Horror / int_c44f83b4	comment	Demons drawn from Abrahamic cosmology represent the main villains in the Merkabah Rider stories. Then again, the Angels aren't that nice, either.
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Religious Horror / int_ca713b1c	comment	Ditto with the Fatal Frame series (especially with the first and second titles), which is centered around secretive Shinto sects with forbidden and outright blasphemous practices. In Shinto, some deities are malevolent and must be placated, but the All-Gods Village take it to a whole new Squicky level, with a Human Sacrifice ritual gone horribly, horribly wrong. It's like a follower of an Abrahamic religion having to fight his or her way through an entire village of Satan-worshippers. With the exception of Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, the series feature Human Sacrifice in order to keep some sort of Hellgate sealed up. Fatal Frame II's sacrifice is probably the least Squicky of the examples (Fatal Frame involves a Virgin Sacrifice being torn apart by ropes attached to her legs, arms, and neck; Fatal Frame III is much worse). However, in the second game, there is another ritual that must be performed if the first can't be done for some reason. It involves torturing an outsider to death with the clear intent to cause as much suffering as possible for the Hellish Abyss to be temporarily placated. To generally clarify, the Shinto religion doesn't deal with death and afterlife all that much in Real Life, leaving those matters to Buddhism. The shrines seen in the games are obsessed with dealing with the line between life and death, and this alone will seem eerie to the original intended audience. Of course, they implicitly don't have much choice; the portals weren't created by humans, they only try to keep them under control. Also, the rituals get pretty gory, which does not fly with Shinto at all.
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Religious Horror / int_cbfe497a	comment	A Haunting, which aired from 2005 to 2007, was a series of reenactments of "true" ghost stories.
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Religious Horror / int_cc32f7c3	comment	Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" was originally written as "Walpurgis," which was recorded but never released. Hence, why "War Pigs" contains references to witches and Satan.
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Religious Horror / int_cd2ad37	comment	The LDS-made film Brigham City uses elements of religious horror based on the LDS faith and puts them to work quietly in the background. This makes the film jarring to members of the LDS church without being over the top.
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Religious Horror / int_d2e9c075	comment	Hellhole (2022): An undercover cop joins a remote church as a priest to investigate reports of missing women and discovers the priests are conducting a ghastly satanic ritual in order to bring forth a new world order.
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Religious Horror / int_d3e3e38a	comment	In She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Horde Prime's cult/regime has several Christianity-coded elements. He berates Hordak using language borrowed from the Bible ("I made you in my image, but you have become an abomination."). The season 5 trailer shows a clone soldier standing in a pool of green liquid, as if he were undergoing baptism. Another scene in the trailer shows Horde Prime projecting a colossal holographic image of himself to the Etherians, as if he wants to appear godlike to them. Horde Prime's voice actor, Keston John, likened him to a proselytizer in a May 13, 2020 interview with Meaww.
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Religious Horror / int_d5b5746a	comment	Tex Willer, being a Western, doesn't normally deal in this... Unless Mefisto or his son Yama are around, as he's a warlock that derives his powers directly from the powers of Hell and has no problem unleashing all sorts of illusionary horrors. It's implied and eventually shown that Mefisto could do much worse... But he's well aware of the horrific risks and price involved and won't dare unless he knows it's the only way to survive a dangerous situation.
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Religious Horror / int_dddc4aa0	comment	Kirby Star Allies, of all games, features an Apocalypse Cult as the main villains of the story. When Kirby and friends finally encounter the Big Bad, Lord Hyness, their light-hearted adventure about The Power of Friendship turns deadly serious as the cult leader rants insanely about taking revenge on the Ancients who banished his cult to the edge of the galaxy by summoning up Void Termina to destroy everything. The ensuing battle is chock-full of creepy gamelan music and other assorted Nightmare Fuel, and even when Hyness is beaten, he still has enough left in him to perform an onscreen Human Sacrifice of his own followers and himself! You know, for kids!
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Religious Horror / int_e5d5d23c	comment	The original Doom series features an invasion by the forces of Hell, who among other things love to Sigil Spam the faces of the Barons of Hell everywhere and have an Unholy Cathedral dedicated to whatever they worship. The Icon of Sin can be assumed to be something like Satan.
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Religious Horror / int_e9155aab	comment	Svaha: The Sixth Finger is about a Catholic priest who specializes in exposing cults and religious scam artists. He winds up uncovering a particularly evil, murderous cult that is an offshoot of Buddhism.
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Religious Horror / int_eaeeea9b	comment	The Tal'darim from StarCraft II is an ancient Protoss cult that knowingly worships Amon and expects him to hold his part of the bargain and ascend the strongest of the Tal'darim into hybrids. Subverted in Legacy of the Void: They (except Highlord Ma'lash) had no idea Amon was not going to keep his word. Once they find out, they pull a Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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Religious Horror / int_ec52b8b8	comment	The Mysterious Stranger is a very cynical take on this trope and, depending on one's interpretation of it, can also be considered a huge Take That! at Christianity.
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Religious Horror / int_ee344d3d	comment	Trauma from The Evil Within is a hulking monster spawned from Ruvik's religious frustrations. Think The Incredible Hulk with arms nailed to a plank and wrapped in barbed wire (crucifixion and a crown of brambles, which tells us the religion Ruvik's frustrated with).
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Religious Horror / int_f00d733b	comment	New World of Darkness: The setting is full of this in all flavors and varieties. Evil religions, mad cults, etc? They're all over the place. Vampire: The Requiem includes Belial's Brood (vampire satanists who basically worship the principle of becoming demons) and the Church of the Crone (who are a player-character faction). Mage: The Awakening has the Seers of the Throne, who deliberately subvert and manipulate existing religions to make them into tools of spiritual oppression. Demons and Mummies can actually found cults for their own purposes. Werewolves can technically be these, due to their connection to the spirits. Perversions of existing religions? Well, how can one not acknowledge the Lancea et Sanctum, a Christian "cult" created for and by vampires? Or the existence of Joe Beal, aka "Blood of the Lamb", an Abyss-worshiping Thrysus who Awakened due to his obsession with his own interpretation of Christian doctrine as a cannibalism-glorifying Blood Magic theology, with Jesus Christ as the Apex Predator, and whose Awakening involved torturing and eating Jesus? The world simply not working in ways that religious faiths teach? There is no canonical evidence that a benevolent god of any kind exists. Spirits are ravening, near-mindless elemental forces that exist only to propagate themselves and which would be considered evil by any human. The closest things to candidates for the Abrahamic God are the Principle and the God-Machine. The former is strongly implied to be a mindless, universal force, a "god" of creation and destruction in much the same way as Azathoth is a god. The latter is a techgnostic Demiurge that either has a Mythosian indifference to humanity as anything other than raw materials for its hardware, is completely batshit insane, or both. Even the "holy miracles" of the Malleus Malleficarium have implications they come from decidedly less than holy origins.
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Religious Horror / int_f1813675	comment	Witchfinder General is a Religious Horror movie in a religion-gone-bad sense rather than in a supernatural demonic horror sense. Indeed, there are no demons, devil cults, or any supernatural evil at all. Instead, the main driver of the horror is the corruption and cruelty of its main villain and title character, a Witch Hunter who engages in horrific torture and burning of innocent people for witchcraft.
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Religious Horror / int_f64ceaf2	comment	The Creepypasta The Devil Game is about how to summon the Devil - and how that ritual can go wrong.
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Religious Horror / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: In the direct-to-DVD movie The Lost Tales, a maintenance worker is possessed by what is implied to be a literal demon — specifically not the devil, rather a lower-ranking servant. Colonel Lochley calls an exorcist. In a twist, the demon wants to be exorcised... in space, a.k.a. "The Heavens". Lochley and the exorcist instead decided to ship his ass back to Earth first. Given that B5's Earth has been visited by Sufficiently Advanced Aliens at least once for a sufficient timespan to leave their marks in the human genome in the distant past, whether the 'demon' was a literal one or whether literature in turn and the practice of exorcism were inspired by events caused by him and his friends — whatever kind of entity they might 'really' be — hanging out on the planet since who-knows-when remains somewhat inconclusive. The Backstory of B5 does seem to imply that demons were memories left behind by the Shadows.
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Religious Horror / int_fb329a65	comment	Because of The Omen (1976), many people think that the name Damien means "demon". It actually means "tame", which is used in the story in the sense meaning "kill".
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Religious Horror / int_fbb719c5	comment	Constantine (2005) is the In Name Only movie adaptation of Hellblazer. The main villain is Mammon, the son of the Devil, and Catholicism is shown to be almost entirely correct.
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Religious Horror / int_fbf8acc	comment	The Cabin in the Woods has a backwoods redneck torture family who worship pain itself, as well as a sadomasochist who is referred to as Fornicus, Lord of Bondage and Pain, who appears after the two surviving members of the Five enter the complex under the woods. In both cases, these individuals sought the sensations that torture promised them, both causing and receiving it to the point of deifying its very essence. Their prayers were eventually answered, by the true Old Gods who the Five sacrifices are intended to placate in the first place, who had some use for such devout worshippers. What they got was becoming the hunter in this sick cat-and-mouse game that the Gods demanded as a sacrifice.
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Religious Horror	processingCategory2	Horror Tropes
Religious Horror	processingCategory2	Index of Gothic Horror Tropes
Religious Horror	processingCategory2	Infernal Tropes
Religious Horror	processingCategory2	Religion Tropes
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Jour J (Comic Book) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Providence (Comic Book) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Spawn (Comic Book) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Mobile Suit Gundam AVNA / Fan Fic / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Always Visible (Fanfic) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Challenge of the Super Friends: The End (Fanfic) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Death and Taxes (Fanfic) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
ABCs of Death 2 / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Angel Heart (1987) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Antrum / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
As Above, So Below / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Bloody Bloody Bible Camp / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Bram Stoker's Dracula / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Brigham City / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
City of the Dead / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Constantine (2005) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Cronos / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
End of Days / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Exorcist: The Beginning / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Eye of the Devil / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Holidays / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Holocaust 2000 / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Jesus Camp / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Jungle Woman (1944) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Midsommar / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Noroi: The Curse / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Prince of Darkness / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
[REC] / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Red State / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Rosemary's Baby / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
SamuraiReincarnation	seeAlso	Religious Horror
Satan's Slaves / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Church (1989) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Conjuring Universe / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Exorcist / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Love Witch / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Nun / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Omen / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Omen (1976) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Omen (2006) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Order / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Seventh Sign / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Sinners of Hell / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Unholy / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Wailing / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Wicker Man (1973) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The VVitch / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Witchfinder General / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Fear Mythos (Franchise) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Aztec / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Between Two Fires / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Book of Revelation / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Dangerous Visions / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Desperation / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Good Omens / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Goosebumps / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Hell House / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Jerusalem's Lot / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Kenzie and Gennaro Series / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Kitty Norville / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Lenore / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Odd Thomas / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Oracle of Tao / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
RUINER / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Sennentuntschi / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Son of Rosemary / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Teito Monogatari / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Dark Elf Trilogy / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Dark is Rising / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Devil Game / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Dracula Tape / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Gospel of Evil / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Monk / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Mysterious Stranger / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Vampire Chronicles / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Vampire: The Masquerade Prince Duology / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Vathek / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Creepypasta / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
HowToSurviveAHorrorMovie	seeAlso	Religious Horror
Riget	seeAlso	Religious Horror
SamuraiReincarnation	seeAlso	Religious Horror
TheAntiChrist	seeAlso	Religious Horror
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Priest (1998) (Manhwa) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Encore (Music) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
American Horror Story: Asylum / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Cursed (2020) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Damien / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Hannibal / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Kolchak: The Night Stalker / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Midnight Mass (2021) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Penny Dreadful / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Servant / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
THEM (2021) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Demon: The Fallen (Tabletop Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Dungeon Saga (Tabletop Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Ravenloft (Tabletop Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Scion (Tabletop Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Wraith: The Oblivion (Tabletop Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
ANNO: Mutationem (Video Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Beacon (2018) (Video Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Disco Elysium (Video Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
FAITH: The Unholy Trinity (Video Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Jisatsu (Video Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Lobotomy Corporation (Video Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Outlast II (Video Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Pony Island (Video Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Quake (Video Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
The Binding of Isaac (Video Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Blasphemous (Video Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Higurashi: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Shingakkou -Noli me tangere- (Visual Novel) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
We Know the Devil (Visual Novel) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Angel Hare (Web Animation) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
MeatCanyon (Web Animation) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Murder Drones (Web Animation) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Mandela Catalogue (Web Video) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Portrait Of God (Web Video) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Undertale the Musical (Web Video) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Valle Verde (Web Video) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Yuriofwind (Web Video) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Silent Hill: Promise (Webcomic) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Everything2 (Website) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Blindness / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 (Video Game) / int_da53340	type	Religious Horror

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