Shoot.. I should've paid more attention to the Hopper this week; I totally didn't see this. And I totally would've voted this up because it's one of my favorite documentaries. I saw it initially because I really like Bedhead, who do the soundtrack and that it'd just be a funny "lol Christians" doc, but I got a lot more out of it than I normally get out of docs. If you haven't seen it, do. And happy Halloween!

For my part, I've taken to only voting on videos in the hopper that I am really enthusiastic about, and there haven't been many lately.

Oh actually this isn't from the documentary. That one's more fucked up: this is just kind of "I decided to be an atheist" or "I decided not to go to Church" stuff, but one of the girls in the doc plays a young rape victim who got an abortion, so she's down in hell too.. shit like that.

And they're all so excited to be doing it like cheerleaders who just made the team, and Halloween's their homecoming moment to shine.

It's sock puppet time!!

There's one not far from my parents' house in Portland. It's a big live-in Christian Trailer Park all year round. I think everybody's homeschooled and last time I was going by there they were building an actual Ark.

I went in there once because someone had a free futon frame posted on craigslist, and I immediately thought that I'd never come out. I'm guessing the HellHouse is the least scary time of the year to be in there.

I went to one as a kid. My upbringing was moderately religious, we celebrated Halloween. I went with a friend and his family. I thought it was cool at the time. They all seem to follow the same format. Its more a like a play than anything, it introduces the characters, a tragedy kills them, then there's a judgement scene where they're sent to heaven or hell, you go to hell, then you go to heaven. At the end you are greeted by prayer councelers ready to convert the freshly terrified group.

For You.