If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? (1971) - The Plan 9 From Outer Space of Christian Movies

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/19879824

If you ever wanted to know what would happen to all the Christians when the communists take over, the Reverend Estus W. Pirkle has the gory answer.

Directed by Ron Ormond, an exploitation filmmaker who found Jesus but still used his exploitation sensibilities to make this film. Rev. Pirkle is not very charismatic, but Ormond apparently thought very highly of him. The “actors” he was able to find for the film are not exactly talented.

Keep an eye out for my three favorite scenes, all three about kids:

• The kids in the classroom with the candy
• The kid who wants to know where his parents are
• The kid and the two communists who have a stick.

There is an LP version of the sermon in this film. The band Negativland sampled it for their song Christianity is Stupid from the Escape From Noise album, which is where I first heard any of this.

By the way, almost every single person in this movie is ugly. Like it’s kind of amazing how ugly everyone is.

Edit: found a collage of screenshots.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e27bdeba-0820-4e4d-8a37-89e6864f970e.png