Last night I watched
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul for the first time. This is my very first Coffin Joe movie (thank you very much to MissMacabre for streaming it - Everyone join Wednesdays at 9:00PM EST
here!).
I was a bit confused in regards to the ending, so I would like to kick off this discussion with
SPOILERS.
Re: The ending of
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (
SPOILERS BELOW):
I'm convinced that at the ending, Coffin Joe got his "Christian" comeuppance (i.e. Not only was he evil by killing people, but he denounced God and spirituality too). So the concept is that being "free" of God also makes him "free" of consequence, correct? So the end is "God" striking back?
Simply stated, that's how I read it... Did I misread? Jenn's BF made the point about how it wasn't actually "God" that came after him; it was his own guilt. I actually LIKE that a lot better, but I didn't see it; I didn't see how it was "actually" his guilt driving him to kill himself vs. him getting struck down by spirits...
Then again... Maybe it was supposed to be ambiguous?
What am I missing? I honestly really love and respect directors who are outspoken about anti-religion, and from what Jenn was saying apparently he's one of them... But I just didn't see it; The Atheist dies in the end. How is that anti-religious? Which makes me wonder, why was the film banned? I realize that I'm seeing it out of context, but still curious...