13 Greatest Anti-Christianity Movies Ever

10. The Masque Of The Red Death

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"Can you look around this world and believe in the goodness of a god who rules it? Famine, Pestilence, War, Disease and Death! They rule this world."

King of the macabre, Vincent Price, starring in a classic horror adaptation as a Satan-worshiping royal - a concept so full of evil you can almost smell the fire and brimstone hanging in the air. Not content with razing plague-ridden villages to the ground and kidnapping attractive peasants, Prince Prospero firmly nails his Hellbound colours to the mast by celebrating his wife becoming wed to Satan through death and making the fair point that no God worthy of respect would rule over a world where preventable disease and famine still reign. The only scene with more potential evil than this is Jim Davidson drunkenly arguing with a crowd of Xenomorphs over YouTube, and even then he'd have to be drinking a truly diabolical brand like Kestrel. Prospero's plans to stave off the outbreak of disease with massive house parties in his isolated castle starts to unravel when a stranger in red enters the room. "Each man creates his own God for himself, his own Heaven, his own Hell", muses the wanderer, revealing a bloodstained visage of the prince and infecting every guest present at the party with the fatal plague. The concluding gathering between deaths of many colours suggests that their respective illnesses bring rest to the people they claim, and that an eternal life such as theirs would be a burden rather than a reward. The moral of the story is essentially this: no matter what you believe or how you live your life, death will eventually find you and send you to the same non-sentient oblivion as the rest of us. Unless you're an android, then you're free to be as depraved as you like until the sun obliterates our planet and you're thrown into the cold, dark void of space, your charred and conscious remains screaming silence for all eternity without any hope of release. Sleep well, kids!
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