Comments on: Human Hell House

By: Mousie

Mousie — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:56:11 +0000

As a member of the Jewish faith who just watched the film, I was very pleased to find your opinion of “Hell House”. I grew up in a conservative Christian community, and often received insensitive and inappropriate comments from both adults and children because of my religion. Your thoughts on the documentary parallel my own.
I currently work in a community that has a number of conservative Christian members. I have a number of teens who attend the local Christian churches who provide service to their community through food drives and working with other community agencies. In my mind, these teens are more in touch with faith than some of the ones portrayed in the film.

By: jonnyflash

jonnyflash — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:28:04 +0000

I thought that the church staging a scene that was basically the same as what his wife did was in really poor taste. He’s a volunteer in their Hell House, they must have known his history. It’d be like them interviewing everyone to get their most painful experiences and then basing scenes off that. “Hey your Dad abused you? Great, you can be in the child abuse scene this year!”

By: Ben Gibbs

Ben Gibbs — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:49:54 +0000

The other Documentary is called Jesus Camp, another very interesting and disturbing look at American Evangelicals:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Camp
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486358/

By: dan

dan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:37:02 +0000

thanks Ben, I’d always wondered about this film and felt a bit funny about watcing it myself… What was that other documentary called about a OTT charismatic kids camp…?