Barrett and Jessica Burgin discuss The Angel
Barrett and Jessica Burgin are filmmakers with their company Burgindie Pictures. One of their recent projects is the short film The Angel, a film that combines aspects of Mormon religion, folklore and history with horror. We unpack their story and the film in this conversation. Jessica has produced for internationally recognized film and media brands […]
Diabolic: Forthcoming LDS religious horror
Latter-day Saints may not be happy with how their tradition is incorporated into horror films. In 2024 Heretic debuted with a psychological horror tale involving two female LDS missionaries. Now we have Diabolic, a film where “fundamentalist” LDS practices are said to be tapped into to help the traumatized psyche through experiences with the divine.
Mormons and Fantastic Roleplaying
The last two days I have been attending Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City. Sunstone is an annual gathering of more progressive Mormons who explore various facets of what it means to be a Mormon wrestling seriously with troubling historical, doctrinal, and social issues. I often find the conference very interesting in my research in […]
Ivan Wolfe: Battlestar Galactica and Mormonism
There is an interesting intersection between religion and science fiction at times, and a notable example of this comes with the 1970s television series Battlestar Galactica and Mormonism. The show was presented in a new incarnation as a series on SyFy from 2004-2009 which was very well received by fans, and which was very different […]
