Finally, an answer to the important conundrum that has been tormenting me.
Quote:Is it sinful for Christians to watch horror movies?
From the Church's point of view, there is no official prohibition of the horror genre. This means that watching a horror movie largely rests on a person's personal discernment.
Steven D. Greydanus explains that, "[t]he grotesque, the macabre, and the frightful have an abiding place in human imagination and culture — a place that Christian sensibility has historically not seen fit to reject or condemn, at least entirely."
At the same time, this does not mean that all horror is good for a Christian soul to consume. Many films will display scenes of excessive violence, ones that are can make some people throw-up.
Additionally, some horror films praise the occult and satanic, holding them up as valid paths for anyone to follow.
We can't deny the fact that "we are what we eat," and that if we are obsessed with horror and fill our lives with it, our souls will inevitably be changed by it.
A little bit of horror can be fine, but if it starts to change who you are and if you begin to really fear Satan, thinking that he is more powerful than God, then it may be good to stop watching.
As with all things, prayer and discernment is important, as well as advice from a trusted spiritual advisor.
https://aleteia.org/2025/10/24/is-it-sin...or-movies/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
