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Tag: Catholic Guilt

Catholic guilt powers more fiction than most genres: sin, confession, and consciences that keep meticulous books. This tag collects reviews of films and stories steeped in it, and the dramatic engine faith’s ledger provides.

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Thirst (2009)

June 6, 2026

Religious tragedy meets erotic horror, reviewed at Master of Worlds. Few directors would even attempt this combination.

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The Omen (1976)

May 19, 2026

An American diplomat learns his adopted son may be the Antichrist as people around the boy die in supernatural accidents. The Omen is Richard Donner's 1976 American horror film depicting an American diplomat who learns that his adopted son may…

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Primal Fear (1996)

May 18, 2026

1996 Gregory Hoblit thriller with Richard Gere as a Chicago defense attorney and Edward Norton's breakthrough as an altar boy accused of murder. Primal Fear is Gregory Hoblit's 1996 American courtroom thriller adapting William Diehl's 1993 novel.

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Sleepers (1996)

May 18, 2026

1996 Barry Levinson drama with Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon. Hell's Kitchen friends face their abusers in court.

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