{"id":6144,"date":"2012-10-22T16:57:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T20:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=6144"},"modified":"2012-10-22T16:57:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T20:57:15","slug":"the-backwater-gospel-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/the-backwater-gospel-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Backwater Gospel (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/500px-The_Backwater_Gospel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6145\" alt=\"500px-The_Backwater_Gospel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/500px-The_Backwater_Gospel.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a>Who needs a monster when you can allow people to become the monsters themselves? When you throw in a bunch of bigoted narrow minded individuals together, and hand them superstitious hokum to chew on, you&#8217;re going to get a good idea of who they are and who they will become in due time. The town in a desert hole finds itself fearing the reaper every time the dreaded undertaker comes around to take measurements for death&#8217;s latest toll, and uses their Christian beliefs as a shield against his menace.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->But when the undertaker&#8217;s messenger comes calling with his song of his newest client, the church going ton folks find themselves horrified by who may go next, and soon begin to drive themselves mad. A wonderful indictment on religion and the futility of superstition and hypocrisy of faith, &#8220;The Backwater Gospel&#8221; is a horrifying and brilliantly animated short film that shows what happens when human beings confront death. At the end of the day when superstition and pleasantry have been cast aside, we&#8217;re all just ravenous fiending monsters who will do anything to stay alive.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll even kill our own family. Providing some slow and calculated storytelling and very subtle moral messages on the meaning of faith and belief, &#8220;The Backwater Gospel&#8221; presents a monster, and it isn&#8217;t the undertaker. It&#8217;s the man with the bible. With excellent animation, rich characters, and a rather relevant commentary on the dangers of superstition and hypocrisy, &#8220;The Backwater Gospel&#8221; is a short film worthy of the watch, if only for a picture at how we&#8217;d truly respond when faced with imminent doom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who needs a monster when you can allow people to become the monsters themselves? When you throw in a bunch of bigoted narrow minded individuals together, and hand them superstitious hokum to chew on, you&#8217;re going to get a good idea of who they are and who they will become in due time. The town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[99,120,477,501,938,1008,1013,1087,1185],"class_list":["post-6144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-animation","tag-b","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film","tag-supernatural","tag-suspense","tag-thriller","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}