This week on Be Afraid, we offer you a bonus episode in the form of a full-length, unedited interview with Chad and Carey Hayes. The Hayeses are twin brothers who launched what is now known as The Conjuring Universe, which, at over $2 billion, is the highest-grossing horror franchise in history. Together, they wrote The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2, which has generated a series of sequels and prequels, including three Annabelle movies, The Nun and The Nun II, and a third Conjuring film. 

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Executive Producer: Erik Petrik

Producer, Writer, and Editor: Kutter Callaway

Producer, Editor, Graphic Design: Stephen Scheidler

Producer: TJ Hester

Music: Jeremy Hunt and Qoheleth

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This week on Be Afraid, we offer you a bonus episode in the form of a full-length, unedited interview with Pete Docter. Docter is a filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, responsible for critically acclaimed megahits like Up, Inside Out, and Inside Out 2. 

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“Be Afraid” is a production of Christianity Today, Fuller Seminary, and Uncommon Voices Collective

Executive Producer: Erik Petrik

Producer, Writer, and Editor: Kutter Callaway

Producer, Editor, Graphic Design: Stephen Scheidler

Producer: TJ Hester

Music: Jeremy Hunt and Qoheleth

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Sometimes, there’s safety in numbers.

This week on Be Afraid, we offer you a bonus episode in the form of a full-length, unedited interview with Scott Teems. Scott is a screenwriter and the director of numerous films and TV shows, including Rectify, Insidious: The Red Door, The Quarry, Narcos, Halloween Kills, and most recently, The Exorcist: Believer.

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Mac Brandt discusses horror, race, and playing the bad guy.

This week on Be Afraid, we offer you a bonus episode in the form of a full-length, unedited interview with Mac Brandt. Mac is an LA-based actor who has appeared in series as wide-ranging as Arrested Development, The Thing About Pam, and Lovecraft Country. More recently, he made an appearance in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, and can now be seen in Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux.

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This week on Be Afraid, we offer you a bonus episode in the form of a full-length unedited interview with none other than Tony Hale. Tony is an actor and producer known for a variety of roles, including Buster Bluth from Arrested Development, Forky from Toy Story 4, and Gary Walsh from Veep. He is also a craftsman who creates bespoke rope bowls for friends and family.

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“Be Afraid” is a production of Christianity Today, and Fuller Seminary

Executive Producer: Erik Petrik

Producer, Writer, and Editor: Kutter Callaway

Producer, Editor, Graphic Design: Stephen Scheidler

Producer: TJ Hester

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This week on Be Afraid, we bring our season of horror to a close just as everyone imagined it would end - with a Christmas special. Join us as we share scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long long ago. Whenever or wherever you may be listening, Happy Holidays, from the Be Afraid family to yours. 

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This week on Be Afraid, we not only watch, but listen to the ways in which slasher films make us feel about random acts of violence. We also compare slashers to body horror, and ask the question of whether or not the horror genre might present us with a vision of human life as fully embodied. 

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This week on Be Afraid, we take a look at cosmic horror, exploring the monsters we make in our quest to control that which is uncontrollable. Could it be that a world exists that has nothing to do with human cares or concerns? If so, how might we respond?

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This week on Be Afraid, we move from toys that come alive when we’re not looking to dolls who are possessed by Satan himself. Along the way, we think about all the footage we’re creating every day on our smartphones and social media feeds, and how that might very well be documenting the horrors that constantly surrounds us. We also create some found footage of our own…

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This week on Be Afraid, we take a lighthearted jaunt through a number of kids’ movies, exploring how they so often use tropes taken directly from the horror genre in order to tell compelling stories. And much to Kutter’s chagrin, we also talk a bit about why dolls and toys are so incredibly creepy.

Joining us this week:

• Pete Docter is a filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios.
• Tony Hale is an actor and producer known for a variety of roles, including Buster Bluth from Arrested Development, Forky from Toy Story 4, and Gary Walsh from Veep. He is also a craftsman who creates bespoke rope bowls for friends and family.
• Justin Barrett is the president and founder of Blueprint 1543. A leading cognitive psychologist, Dr. Barrett is the author of Born Believers and, more recently, Thriving with Stone Age Minds. 

“Be Afraid” is a production of Christianity Today, Fuller Seminary, and Uncommon Voices Collective 

Executive Producer: Erik Petrik 

Producer, Writer, and Editor: Kutter Callaway 

Producer, Editor, Graphic Design: Stephen Scheidler 

Producer: TJ Hester 

Music: Jeremy Hunt and Qoheleth

More from Kutter Callaway on theology and culture: https://www.kuttercallaway.com/

More from Uncommon Voices Collective: https://www.uncommonvoices.faith/

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This week on Be Afraid, we consider both our fear of and fascination with the world of the demonic, asking what it means to be delivered from the supernatural evil that afflicts us all in one way or another. As always, please keep in mind that the theological views and opinions expressed in this program are those of our guests and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities producing this podcast.

Joining us this week:

Fr. Carlos Martins is a priest with the Companions of the Cross, and is the Director of Treasures of the Church. Season 2 of The Exorcist Files, a podcast featuring his case files, releases in 2024.

Sr. Rose Pacatte is a member of the Daughters of St. Paul, a religious order focused on communications media. She is the founding Director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Los Angeles. In addition, she is an award-winning film journalist and author or coauthor of 15 titles on film, film and Scripture and media literacy education.

Daniel Silliman is Christianity Today’s news editor and author of the book Reading Evangelicals.

Resources Referenced:

“This is Not Morgan Freeman” AI Deep Fake video

NPR article on the young nursing student who falsely reported her abduction

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More from Qoheleth: https://qohelethnoise.bandcamp.com

“Be Afraid” is a production of Christianity Today, Fuller Seminary, and Uncommon Voices Collective

Executive Producer: Erik Petrik

Producer, Writer, and Editor: Kutter Callaway

Producer, Editor, Graphic Design: Stephen Scheidler

Producer: TJ Hester

Music: Jeremy Hunt and Qoheleth

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