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Netflix's 'Midnight Mass' joins a long line of horror that plays with Catholic beliefs

  • Written by Regina Hansen, Master Lecturer, Rhetoric, Boston University
imageA still from the Netflix series "Midnight Mass."Eike Schroter/Netflix

Horror and Catholicism have walked hand in hand on screen for almost a century. From Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 film “Häxan” to Mike Flanagan’s 2021 Netflix series “Midnight Mass,” scary films and television shows have portrayed the...

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