In the year of some people’s Lord 2014, something happened. A
film by the name of God’s Not Dead was released by PureFlix Entertainment.
After seeing the rather intense reactions to it online, I checked it out for
myself. I didn’t like it. At all. Here’s my review on just how much wrong is contained within. Ordinarily, that would be the end of it: It’s a bad movie,
something we get a lot of year-in and year-out. However, this was decidedly
different because God’s Not Dead apparently stuck such a chord with both its
defenders and its detractors that it spawned, as put aptly by critic and
filmmaker Brad Jones, “a golden age of a different kind of exploitation film”.
Over the next three years, a slew of similar Christian-oriented cinema began to
spring up, from the hardcore apologetics of Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas to
the seemingly unaware sexism of War Room right down to the furthering of
dangerous narrative of God’s Not Dead 2. Brad himself has covered several of
these films on video, either in character as the Cinema Snob or just
giving his immediate post-watching thoughts for his Midnight Screenings series.
However, it seems that his interest in the subject still can’t be sated so he
went all-out and made a feature-length production to mock the hell out of this
sub-genre. But how did it turn out?
