The Burning Hell

Nathan Shapiro

This was just awesome! A propaganda film with hilarious acting and oddly good cinematography. What's not to like? Obviously, the content itself needs to be viewed as seriously as one might view "Refer Madness". With that train of thought you're bound to have a good time!

the_mentaculus

"Perhaps you're saying: Preacher, I couldn't come to Jesus after a message like that. People would say I'd been scared into getting saved: What would that matter?" Has more fire and brimstone than a Puritan Sunday BBQ, and just as grave. Asks fundamental questions about the hellish descent of sinners in "both soul and body", with a literalness unscathed by pesky intellectuals and Hermeneutics. A red-hot time capsule.

David Perez

Hilarious. A must-see. This gang of idiots set out to scare non-believers into becoming Christians, but instead managed to make hell look like the greatest gag store in the galaxy. If Jesus were to return and see everything going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

Juan

Excelente ejemplo de cine-propaganda del fundamentalismo cristiano de EU. En la línea de los "chick tracts". Ormond era un director con experiencia y un converso tardío, por eso la película, pese a su visión religiosa ingenua, está bien llevada y es más que cine amateur.

luisxavier

Everything about this movie is amazing: colors, script, the effort to make the film with the community/church amateur people and edition. It's a propaganda movie shot with passion for it's subject and respect for the cinema art. One of the best movies I've seen.

William

A sermon on the dangers of hell, as literally depicted by Estus Pirkle, pastor of a fundamentalist Southern Baptist congregation. Pirkle made a number of well-known regional evangelical films, often allied with exploitation filmmaker Ron Ormond, including the amazingly titled "If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?" from 1971.

Henri de Corinth

I don’t know how to properly evaluate films like this. It’s religious propaganda...it’s only ‘funny’ if you watch it ironically, which I would prefer not to do because I’m not 14...and it’s mostly dull and incompetent if you watch it otherwise. But I’m giving it a 3 solely because it’s sort of interesting as a historical artifact.

Stefan Drees

In spite of the propagandistic tendencies and the amateurish filmmaking (hell seems to be a very funny place full of bad actors and cheap theatrical effects: did anyone feel scary about this depiction?) this film is an important historical and sociological document. I really appreciate NWR's efforts to restore such movies: they tell us a lot about human nature.