Sean Patrick Flanery and Jordan Belfi in Nefarious
Posted on 04/15/2023 9:26:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sean Patrick Flanery and Jordan Belfi in Nefarious
I don’t do movie reviews because I don’t watch very many movies. I have a handful of movies that I dust off for semi-annual viewings (The Man Who Would Be King, Zulu, The Wind and the Lion, Master and Commander, Patton, We Were Soldiers Once, and Black Hawk Down among them), but movie-going is just not my thing. It seems like that when I do go out; my wife has chosen a movie, like, for instance, Father Stu and The Passion of the Christ.
When we do find a non-woke and non-morally objectionable movie, we try to support the people who made it. So when we heard that the team of Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon, who had written/directed a couple of movies we liked, God’s Not Dead and Unplanned, were bringing out another film, we decided we had to go on opening night to do our bit.
The film is called Nefarious and stars Sean Patrick Flanery in the dual role of Edward and the demon Nefarious, Jordan Belfi as Dr. James Martin, and Tom Ohmer as Warden Moss. Here’s where I am supposed to let you know something about the actors, but I’d be lying to you. I’d never heard of any of the three before yesterday.
We thought the trailer looked intriguing.
What was really intriguing was the interview Konzelman and Solomon gave the John-Henry Westen show, which has since been banned from YouTube for saying bad things about abortion and transgenderism. You can read and listen to it on LifeSiteNews. The interview starts at 7:29.
In this interview, the writers talk about the strange events that happened while filming the movie. On the first day, 15 cast/crew members were out with COVID, and one of the writers was hospitalized. This added $600K in costs for leasing the main set. The union went out on strike on Day 4 over issues that were drummed up. The priest working on the project suffered a burst appendix. The most bizarre happening was that over Christmas, Solomon decorated one-half of his house with secular imagery and one-half with religious imagery to satisfy his young son. An animal came down the chimney and destroyed the religious decorations, leaving the secular decorations untouched. A record-high wind ripped the roof off a building where post-production work was taking place.
None of it was as spectacular as Jim Caviezel getting struck by lightning while filming The Passion of the Christ, but it was close.
The plot is fairly straightforward. Edward is on death row in Oklahoma. On his execution day, questions about his mental competency arise, and the state has Dr. James Martin, a heavily credentialed psychiatrist, interview him. Martin has just a few hours to make his determination, and his findings will decide whether Edward lives or dies. To make things interesting, Martin is an atheist of a very modernist bent.
As he interviews Edward, he encounters the demon, a fallen angel, Nefarious. A duel proceeds in which Martin attempts to outwit a supernatural being (that never works out well), while Nefarious temps Martin with fame and fortune, but he needs Martin’s acquiescence to close the deal.
Here are my bullet points.
The larger theme of the movie is that evil is real, it is active in the world, and that unbridled freedom is necessary for it to happen. It reminds us that Satan needs our cooperation to function. It is going to hit Libertarians and some Democrats hard right where they live.
This review is spot on. I drove 45 miles to see this film, just trying to support Steve Deace. Figured I could sit through a slightly below average flick for the cause. What I got was a fairly gripping and compelling two person scene that never got old. The camera is tight on these actors’ faces and they never waiver.
The coda with Beck IS a bit superfluous, as if the writers weren’t certain how to end the story. It came across as a long plug for Deace’s book. BUT, what came before.... the double cheeseburger and the finality of the climax are moving.
This film deserves to be seen.
Notice that Jesus called the spirit in the boy an “unclean spirit” and not a “demonic spirit.”
Is there a difference in their resumes?
Big difference..
Based on what?
amen roving. As believers, we are filled with the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead! We have all the same power!!
LOVE Frank Peretti’s books.
yes, I would like to know that too
I saw the movie today. I didn’t quite know what to expect. I only went because Charlie Kirk recommended it on his show. I never got bored watching the two main characters talking over a table — even though it was a large part of the movie. The subject and the acting totally drew me in. It makes sense that the demons would be intelligent, manipulative, deceptive, and completely evil as they slowly tempt a person (or society) to follow a path which will lead them away from God. It felt so real that it was creepy. It does make you want to recommit to Christ.
I think the Glenn Beck interview did not really add much to the film and was a little anticlimactic.
I would recommend the film. I wouldn’t take children, though.
I am assuming that your contention is that there is no difference between a demonic spirit and an unclean spirit.
I will address a few of these differences based upon my own experiences in dealing with them.
1. When a human soul departs the physical body at death, it normally crosses through the layer of darkness into a high frequency realm most call Heaven for further soul growth experiences. Many souls, due to attachment to earthly experiences get stuck on earth and are recruited by the demonic spirits. They buy into evil’s great lie that “the Light will kill you.” These are the “unclean spirits.”
Demonic spirits never had an earthly physical body. They do not have the spark of God essense in their souls. They are anti-life and seek to create resistance to souls growing.
2. “Unclean spirits” can be redeemed by redirecting them toward God and shattering the great lie that shackles them.
Demons cannot be redeemed. They can only be kept at a distance by shining the Light of God toward them. Even Michael casts them out rather than destroying them.
3. Ghosts are merely unclean spirits. They are souls that attached either to physical existance for pleasure or self inflation. The low frequency attachment creates an obstacle to Love in their soul that prohibits them from crossing over. They are not bad or evil, merely misguided and need directions.
Some unclean earthbound souls are merely lost and cannot find their way. Thus, they wander in the earthly realm not even knowing Heaven exists. I’ve encountered this when a soul of an aborted fetus attaches to the mother rather than returning to Heaven. They are not bad, just lost.
The unclean spirits then often attach to humans without them even knowing of their existance, creating illnesses as a result of the influence of the unclean spirit still carrying the memories of their own earthly experiences including death, manifesting in their host.
I’ve found them layered many souls deep.
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Matthew 13 is an accurate description of the process:
The Parable of the Weeds Explained
36 Then he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”
37 He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man.(Jesus born in the flesh)
38 The field is the world,
and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom.
The weeds are the people of the evil one, 39 and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
40 “As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire,(thus the weeds fear “global warming”) so it will be at the end of the age.
41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. 42 They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
43 Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.
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The Light of God is a purifying consciousness where impurities cannot exist. The perfect Love of God casts out all fear, anger, guilt, or low frequency consciousness. These cannot exist in Heaven. Just as placing a dense object in the high frequency of a microwave oven, the object heats up and often catches on fire. So it is with an unclean soul as it tries to enter Heaven.
This is why Jesus told the parable of the new wine in an old wineskin. You must let go of the old to make room for the new. You cannot bring the old into the Kingdom of Heaven.
The Bible is very accurate, but metaphoric so that the truth is hidden in plain site for those who are on the Path.
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Yes. Very true.
John 14
12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
It’s not just believing, it’s a knowing. It’s full communion where you realize that Jesus and I are “One,” just as Jesus realized that He and His Father are One.
And as Jesus explained in John 14, If He is in you, then His Father that is in Him is also in you.
I use the concept of Russian nesting dolls to explain this.
It is real. It’s just that prople are asleep and need to wake up to perceive this.
We saw this movie today. Very disturbing, because ... demons. We were supposed to have lunch afterward but my stomach was in knots so I couldn’t eat. I’m still not sure if I’m glad I went or not, but it’ll be something to think about for days to come.
They went hard on attacking euthanasia, abortion, and some of today’s woke issues. When abortion was the subject I wondered how many in the audience would walk out, but nobody did.
The priest was a weenie and didn’t believe in demons.
The theology was good.
Acting was excellent. If it weren’t so right-leaning, Flannery easily could win an Oscar.
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