I try to avoid swearing on the blog where it's not a direct quote, but on this one occasion I think it's excusable. I read this incredible article in the Independent today and it pissed me off like you wouldn't believe.
Hell House is twisted and very, very wrong. It is a haunted house run by a right-wing evangelical church in Texas and it is designed to scare kids into Heaven by showing scenes of "assault, abortion, murder and suicide, complete with ear-piercing gunfire, strobe lights, thumpingly loud music and buckets of theatrical blood". The report continues...
"In the show's most overwrought scene, an alcoholic, adulterous, porn-addicted litigation lawyer who has just secured freedom for a known paedophile stabs his wife rather than have her discover he has been molesting their daughter. The daughter then shoots her father, retreats to her room and slits her wrists, spilling fake blood over the floor, next to her bible.
"This might have seemed unintentionally funny were it not for the relentlessness of the sensory bombardment we had all undergone for the previous half an hour. As it was, my stomach started turning in vague discomfort. Some of my fellow Hell Housers were pale and clinging on to each other for security."
Sometimes I wonder if i've got God all wrong, but if I have got it wrong and they've got it right, then I'm off!
I can't believe how awful this is. I feel sick. Surely there's a campaign somewhere against them???
Posted by: Yasmin | November 01, 2005 at 02:26 PM