R | 1h 20min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Stars: Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he
hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of a torturer
of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but
Francis finds this hard to believe. And the mystery begins. The suspense is classic old school
horror. I don’t typically like scary
movies, but I like older ones better than modern gore and blood baths.
SPOILER ALERT:
Francis learns that Nicholas is a traumatized man that witnessed
as a boy the murder of his uncle Bartolome and his adulterous mother Isabella by
his father.
The moral I get from this story is that of
Karma and reaping what we sow and maybe some genetic heritage that we end up
like our parents whether we want to or not. Only with God can we hope to break
the curses of our family lines. Each
generation must choose for themselves how they will live.
I think Christianity gets a bad rap at
times unintentionally in these type movies.
Folks think the Spanish Inquisition and Crusades were horrible but never
mention the atrocities that led up to them.
It’s a thin pancake that doesn’t have two sides. I'm not justifying them because I'm not qualified, but this I do know.
Christ
is love, but true love demands justice and justice demands controlled violence
at times like war and prison and the death penalty. Anyone who has family that has been a victim
understands this all too well. God would
have nothing to do with the torture chamber in this film regardless of what the
Church did back then. God explains it this way:
Not all who claim the name of Christ are Christ’s.
The Narrow Gate
Matthew 7: 13“You can enter God’s
Kingdom only through the narrow gate. The highway to hell is broad, and
its gate is wide for the many who choose that way. 14But the gateway to life is
very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.
The Tree and Its Fruit
15“Beware of
false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious
wolves. 16You can identify them by
their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from
thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17A good
tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit. 18A good tree can’t produce
bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit. 19So every tree that does
not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire. 20Yes, just as you can
identify a tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by their actions.
Many
false teachers have led many astray through the ages, but that is not God’s fault. As a matter of fact, the Bible warns us they
will come and deceive many. Free Will
has caused the world situation you now live in.
Not God. If God was going to
control every act and word spoken, He would never have allowed mankind to sin
in the first place. But since we did
mess things up, He sent us a savior. And
best of all -- salvation is free and cannot be earned by any deed or good
works. It is by faith alone in Christ
alone (all done in the heart and mind) lest anyone should boast.
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