I’d sooner expect to hear that Manos: Hands of Fate had caused lifelong trauma to someone. When I first heard about this horrible terrible no-good bad movie, it floored me to think that it could have any effect upon anybody at all.
A THIEF IN THE NIGHT MOVIE MOVIE
The one movie I can remember hearing about was 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ. My pastor preached about it one time as it was coming out and we had anti- Temptation tracts in the front lobby, but mostly the PTB’s position on the topic of this deeply-heretical movie was that nobody should need to tell us to stay clear of it because Pentecostals (UPCI) shouldn’t be going to movies anyway. So a lot of the nuttier Christian movies that came out in the 1970s and 1980s simply passed me by. The Problem Here:ĭuring the years where I would have joined those millions of children, I was a relatively sane-if-fervent flavor of Catholicism that didn’t truck with any of that nonsense.Īnd during the years I belonged to a rabidly-extremist-and-fervent flavor of fundagelicalism that very much decidedly did truck with all of that nonsense and more, I was officially forbidden to see movies at all. It terrified them and informed their nightmares and unnecessarily panicked them every goddamned time they couldn’t physically perceive their loved ones right then and there.Īnd I just had no idea it even existed until many years after my deconversion. Adults today right now still carry the barely-healed-over wounds this movie inflicted on their minds and hearts. Millions of kids have seen this movie, and it scared the ever-lovin’ pants off of them. What’s so astonishing about this entire movie is that, as terrible as it sounds right out of the gate, it is apparently not only the granddaddy of Rapture movies, it has traumatized what might well be millions of young Christians. In short, my expectations are not exceptionally high. Blah blah, everyone forgets about human rights–which fundagelicals are not super-good with anyway, remember–and the ebil gubmint starts executing people for holding beliefs they don’t like–which Christian leaders have traditionally done for centuries and only stopped doing because of human rights advances. Blah blah, Christians get Raptured and the world falls apart. He did a short in 1994 (what looks like a ham-handed morality tale about what happens when young women drink alkyhall) and that is the last the movie world has heard of him.Īnd it looks like A Thief in the Night follows all the usual tropes of these sorts of movies. In addition to this series, he worked on The Shepherd and a few other things. The director is Donald Thompson, who had a very similarly limited and brief career in Hollywood. (The video for The Shepherd has a low-rent Jim Carrey lookalike in pilot gear holding a half-grown lamb in his arms, which is an image that truly appears to have been taken as part of some kind of weird Christian satire of gay porn.) She had her moment in the sun and then faded like the last rosy-golden glow of a California dusk.
A THIEF IN THE NIGHT MOVIE PLUS
Besides A Thief in the Night, she was in what appears to be all of its sequels (YES, this movie has a ton of sequels!), plus a Top Gun fundagelical riff called The Shepherd from 1984. The reason I’ve never heard of Patty Dunning is that she has pretty much only ever been in Christian movies about the Rapture. Things happen according to the fashion of these sorts of movies. She plays Patty Myers, a woman who lives through the Rapture that claims her husband. Welcome to the pre-review party! Gee I hope it isn’t going to paste that play button across everything all through this review… The Setup.Ī Thief in the Night is a terrible 1972 movie starring Patty Dunning, an actress I have never heard of before now.
We’re going to be watching and reviewing A Thief in the Night later tonight, and as per the custom we’ll be setting the movie up now.
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