70s Christian Exploitation Double Feature Movie Night (Premium E337) Sample

About this episode

The episode explores 1970s Christian exploitation films and their impact on audiences.

In this Movie Night episode, Travis, Jake, and Jack descend into the sweaty church-basement panic of 1970s Christian exploitation cinema with a double feature: If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? (1971) and A Thief in the Night (1973). These were not slick Hollywood productions, but they reached millions through church screenings, youth groups, libraries, and religious distribution networks. If The Footmen Tire You used anti-communist nightmare imagery to warn Christians that godless radicals were coming for their children, their churches, and their wives. A Thief in the Night turned rapture theology into an indie horror movie, terrifying generations of evangelical children with the fear of waking up to find their loved ones vanished and the Antichrist running the United Nations. We talk about Ron Ormond’s journey from swamp monsters and stripper movies to Christian gore, Estus Pirkle’s apocalyptic anti-communist sermons, the birth of rapture horror, and the power of low-budget religious filmmaking. https://archive.org/details/if-footmen-tire-you-what-will-horses-do-1971-dir.-ron-ormond-final-reconstruction-hd-267159565 Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium…

People in this episode

Hosts: Travis, Jake

Guest: Jack

Topics covered

• Christian exploitation cinema
• 1970s films
• rapture theology
• anti-communism
• low-budget filmmaking

Keywords

• Christian cinema
• exploitation films
• horror movies
• rapture
• anti-communist

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?, A Thief in the Night

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