The Horror, The Horror: What Kind of (Horror) Movie Is the Apocalypse?(Critical Essay‪)‬

A Double Feature [1] The simple answer to this article's titular question is that the Apocalypse is a double feature, hence "the horror, the horror," (1) but that simple answer requires explication. The most memorable and popular features of the Apocalypse are the woes of the final days, including the spectacle of monstrous beasts, and the violent end of the "world," but the following article tries to demonstrate that apostasy/failure and the overwhelming, divine Empire are two deeper horrors. The article does so by joining the Book of Revelation with apocalyptic and horror cinema. Like the Apocalypse, apocalyptic film often exhorts its audience to avoid catastrophic internal weaknesses. The second sometimes explores supernatural possessions, which are in individualistic versions of Revelation's overwhelming divine Empire. Thus, film casts light upon the apocalyptic horror of apostasy and the horror in the Apocalypse's imagination of the absorbing divine. Thereby, film raises questions about the wisdom of conforming to such infinite scripts.