Thread by @Delafina777

I know I've said this before, but there's a reason that there are a ton of Catholic horror movies and tv series (yes, I'm watching 30 Monedas, why do you ask) and not very many Jewish ones (short thread)

Like, Catholicism has DEMONS and SAINTS and a whole giant SF/F series cast of both which is great for cosmic war stuff

Judaism has <checks notes> God, who can be kind of horrific sometimes and whom Judaism's culture heroes spend a lot of time trying to protect humanity *from* and, like, bad humans?

I mean, yes, there are demons in Jewish myth but also like, Satan's on God's payroll? Like you can't have a war when everyone's actually on the same side.

I mean, not all the people are, but we're talking grand horror here.

But yeah, like, Catholic demons are SCARY because they're opposed to God and like it's unclear because on one hand God's supposed to have everything well in hand but on the other, I dunno, the Devil seems to be putting up an actual fight and be pretty powerful?

And like Catholic priests FIGHT demons, like it's an actual BATTLE with cool-sounding Latin spells and weaponized holy water and special magical priest armor-vestments and all that jazz

By contrast, Judaism has dybbuks

they're not demons

they're sad ghosts who don't know how to move on

which good horror does not exactly make

like every so often I'm like WHY AREN'T THERE MORE JEWISH POSSESSION-HORROR MOVIES

and then I remember that Catholic exorcisms are battles

Jewish ones are therapy

therapy is not exciting