{"id":9544,"date":"2014-08-27T16:26:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T20:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2014-08-27T16:26:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T20:26:27","slug":"horror-flick-details-biblical-end-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2014\/08\/horror-flick-details-biblical-end-times.html","title":{"rendered":"Horror Flick Details Biblical End Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe title=\"The Remaining Official Trailer #1 (2014) - Alexa Vega Horror Movie HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N3pyDaNoY6s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Faith based films have become a buzzword in Hollywood lately said writer and director Casey La Scala of \u201cDonnie Darko,\u201d and \u201cA Walk to Remember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>La Scala new film is a horror flick based on biblical accounts of end times called \u201cThe Remaining,\u201d an Affirm Film, known for faith-based projects like, \u201cSoul Surfer.\u201d The story follows a group of people at a wedding as they encounter apocalyptic events and they need to choose survival or to save their souls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat would it be like if there was global paranormal activity,\u201d La Scala asked himself as he wrote \u201cThe Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes.\u201d Raised and confirmed as Lutheran he reflected on his childhood and thought of merging these concepts.<\/p>\n<p>Another question was, would the faith audience go for it?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I do this faith-based supernatural thriller will the audiences get behind it? I have no idea,\u201d said La Scala. So he took the script to Affirm Senior Vice President Rich Peluso\u00a0for input. The film would need to be marketable to believers and it has to be authentic and genuine \u201cyou don\u2019t want to Hollywoodize it because it won\u2019t be embraced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peluso, who is a minister didn\u2019t know, forwarded the script to youth ministers across the country for feedback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Peluso] was kind of surprised when they came back and were very support of it. From that moment on I worked with Rich to make the rules of the movie biblically accurate. I wanted to make sure that it could stand up to evangelical debates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is another reason the film is important, said La Scala.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen my father passed a lot of things ran through my mind. One being to love the one you\u2019re with before it\u2019s too late because things could end in a blink of an eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9549\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/files\/2014\/08\/the-remaining1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9549\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2014\/08\/the-remaining1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Alexa PenaVega and opens in Theaters on Sept. 5.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexa PenaVega stars\u00a0in &#8220;The Remaining&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Remaining\u201d opens in Theaters on Sept. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith based films have become a buzzword in Hollywood lately said writer and director Casey La Scala of \u201cDonnie Darko,\u201d and 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