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Marilyn Manson, who like so many saw the film at church as a child, wrote in his autobiography The Long Road Out of Hell, “I was thoroughly terrified by the idea of the end of the world and the Antichrist. … This film inspired people from across the political and social spectrum. … The film had an enormous impact on evangelical culture and shaped its attempts to influence American popular culture more directly through music, film, and books. (Because viewing and distribution has largely been through alternative mechanisms, an accurate accounting is impossible.) “Today, many teen evangelicals have not seen A Thief in the Night, but virtually every evangelical over 30 I’ve talked to is familiar with it, and most have seen it,” writes Heather Hendershot in her book Shaking the World for Jesus.

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To date, the movie has been seen by perhaps more than 50 million people worldwide others estimate as high as 300 million. It has influenced a generation of Christians reared in the 1970s and ’80s. The film was released in 1972 and marks its 40th anniversary this year. If you have seen it, the setting was likely a church basement, a church camp, or some other quasi-authoritative space where the film’s sermonizing might have been accompanied by an earnest youth pastor worried for your soul. Here’s Frykholm on A Thief in the Night at 40:Ī Thief in the Night is a cult classic, where the word “cult” has more than one resonance. (Specifically, their splicing and twisting of several disparate verses in the Bible had them convinced the world had only a single “generation” after 1948.) They were absolutely certain, back when they made this movie, that the world was going to end long before 40 years had gone by. But it must be particularly strange for the filmmakers themselves. It’s jarring to realize this movie is 40 years old - another reminder that I’m getting older myself. She knows this world, having immersed herself in PMD prophecy-mania while writing Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America, which takes an empathetic and generous look at some of the tens of millions of fans of the World’s Worst Books. I’m a bit too brain-fried and bone-weary at the end of a long week to spend time today with the likes of Rayford Steele and Buck Williams, so instead let’s revisit this related classic with Frykholm.

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The full movie of A Thief in the Night is also on YouTube.) Unfortunately due to restrictions there was not a real opportunity to discuss and share opinions afterwards over drinks and nibbles ….(those were the days!) I will not be going to the sequel …….Love after Lockup …….(Here’s Larry Norman’s version of the song. turns out he was the bad guy turned good !!! and all because of Love. What a shock… poor Liam has aged drastically, his acting skills also deteriorated. The rest of the cast were cutout carboard actors!! All in all, a forgettable non-thriller, lacking action for 90 mins. Some scenes were staged so badly it was laughable…… and there were some laughs during the time spent in the cinema …. I was excited to see Liam Neeson in a role as the baddie…. We met in the lobby and had no trouble recognizing each other with masks!!

Many thanks to Anne for arranging the bag of goodies, a must for munching during the film. All 10 tickets were taken and the usual suspects attended at the Pathe. But when two FBI agents set him up for murder, he must now go on the run to clear his name ( “In-and-Out Bandit.” ) and bring them to justice.

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Hoping to cut a deal, a professional bank robber agrees to return all the money he stole in exchange for a reduced sentence. by Martina Leonard. We were so lucky to have had our movie night before the 2 nd closure of cinemas!