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Though Milligan spent several years in and out of institutions, he also had stretches of living as a free man, at one point living on a farm in Ohio. Here’s one from the Book of Revelations: “The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.” What a dick.Billy Milligan pictured in Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan, courtesy of NetflixĪlso Read: Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan Director Asks: ‘What About the Victims?’ Still, there are some strange passages about heavenly angels delivering God’s wrath. Seems like Father Paul stumbled upon one of these fallen angels in a cave-another subversion of religious imagery caves are significant locations in multiple religious texts where divine law and prophecy is revealed. In the Book of Jude we learn about these fallen angels: “The angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day.” These descriptions are much closer to the “angel” in Midnight Mass, which is definitely not infantile or Adonis-like, but closer to Bat Slenderman. In Domenico di Michelino work "The Devine Comedy," Dante’s vision of hell is depicted, including his bat-like Satan. Dante famously describes Satan as having large featherless wings like a bat. Satan doesn’t get a lot of descriptive love in the Bible, either, though artists beginning in the medieval period often depict him as dragon-like or somehow demonic-with animal and human features. Of course, there are “fallen angels,” which include Satan. In other words: they look either innocent or heroic. Most Christian art gives them either infantile or else Adonis-like musculature. Traditionally, angels are depicted in human forms. (Though, we suppose, wings and flaming weapons are scary enough.) The Bible describes wings and flaming weapons, but not much about their faces and features. Visually, what we know about angels is very little. What do we know about angels from the Bible? Many prophets and Biblical figures are described looking upon angels and “being afraid,” prompting angels to literally say to them “do not be afraid” to which they are still-we can assume-very much afraid. Do you really want to meet a creature like this? Imagine what that creature must be like."įather Paul (Hamish Linklater) explains the creature’s grotesqueness by pointing out that scripture often depicts angels as being pretty frickin' scary.
"Whenever God needs to do something horrible to someone in the Bible, he sends an angel. In an interview, he explained the reasoning. What viewers will find equally horrifying is the series’ principle “monster,” which isn’t really a monster, but rather an interpretation of Catholic “angels,” beings who populate Christian theology and play the part of messengers and henchmen-and, in the Book of Revelations, straight-up genocidal killers.įlanagan’s semi-twist: the angels themselves are somewhat monstrous. C’mon, you get to drink wine in Church, kids-don't ya wanna sign up? For Netflix viewers likely unfamiliar with the Catholic mass, it’s a newly-horrifying discovery and one unlikely to convert (many) people.
In Midnight Mass, a horror master and kid who definitely didn’t want to be at Sunday School-writer/director Mike Flanagan-delivers a twisted vampiric take on Catholic scripture, replete with guilt, judgement, and creatures literally devouring the body and blood of the Holy.įor those of us forcefully versed in Catholic teachings, the scripture’s metaphoric (?) cannibalism is, by now, a well-trodden joke.
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