Priests and Religious Leaders
Clergy and Religious Leaders
These films keep circling back to institutions that claim divine authority and what happens when human weakness gets loose inside them—priests fighting demons literal and figurative, cult leaders exposed by their own true believers, convents and mega-churches alike revealed as pressure cookers of desire and doubt. Whether played as camp, satire, or genuine anguish, faith here is never simple comfort; it's a structure people test themselves against, sometimes breaking it, sometimes being broken by it. Even the outliers orbit that same fault line between the sacred and the corrupt, the ecstatic and the absurd.
