BackgroundĪ Thief in the Night was directed by Donald W. I know that my history of slasher films is incredibly simplified - and ignores important films like Black Christmas or Blood and Black Lace - but I hope my point comes across.
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Left Behind is like Jason in the Friday the 13th franchise - it took the tropes of the genre, and eventually became a ‘standard’ for how to follow them. A Thief in the Night is like Carpenter’s Halloween - it set the tropes and codified tone for the genre, serving as a quintessential guideline for the rest.
To compare this development to the slasher-horror genre, Ormond’s Footmen is like Hitchcock’s’ Psycho - it included early elements of the genre that would be used later on. According to my knowledge, the first film to include these rapture elements was Ron Ormond’s If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? However, A Thief in the Night took on an ambiguous four-part film series with one single narrative about people facing the fallout in a post-rapture world, which set the tone for rapture films to follow. Even the History Channel did a ‘found footage’ style TV series on the concept. There are endless movies and TV shows around the evangelical theological concept of the rapture and apocalypse. Or, perhaps the remake with Nicolas Cage in 2014. You’re probably familiar with early-2000s Left Behind trilogy, staring the king of Christian cinema and most handsome Christian man ever, Kirk Cameron.
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