Pray about it. Perhaps it won’t bother you. Our advice: stay clear of it.
We speak here about the upcoming blockbuster movie, Disclosure Day, directed by Stephen Spielberg, all but guaranteed to be his biggest hit since ET—The Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Poltergeist. It will be released June 12 (Feast of the Sacred Heart).
Spielberg is problematic. Although some of his movies were simply well-told stories often his work carries an occult smudge.
This can rub off.
The new movie apparently is based on public revelation that beings from another world have not only visited earth but have been involved in our evolution or even creation (via hybridization). Remember those posters for ET (the finger of a reptilian-like hand touching the finger of a human, à la Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel painting of God touching the finger of Man)? In other words, aliens created us, not “Heaven.”
This may be part of a grand delusion in coming times. The posters for the new movie have a young human beneath medical technology with the head cradled by reptilian or insectile “fingers” (claws).
The alien visages from Spielberg’s previous extraterrestrial movies have been decidedly like what are now reported by “UFO” experiencers as “greys,” albeit made to seem more endearing than the often terrifying ones actually experienced, as well as “aliens” that resemble exactly reptiles (Jurassic Park, anyone?).
These are also classic depictions (greys), through the ages, of demons.
The new movie has it all: not only an explanation for UFOs (or “UAPs,” as they are now more smartly referred to), but even occultic shape-shifting (an alien, with telltale jet-black eyes, taking the form of a reindeer).
So endearing (not).
The movie even involves a Catholic nun. The preview introduces the protagonists’ initial encounter as children, a moment marked by an alien abduction that altered their brains, or at least their pupils. They cross paths again in adulthood as these dormant abilities awaken, all while a covert government organization attempts to prevent them from exposing a secret kept hidden for nearly eight decades (since Roswell).
Ironic it is, how often, in reported visits or abductions by aliens, there is the odor of sulfur. The movie comes as the U.S. Department of War is releasing footage of strange objects or lights taken by military cameras.
Spirits often take just such a form, and by the by, can also take human and other forms, including physicality.
Certain of Spielberg’s previous movies have come with their stealth baggage. Consider Poltergeist: that movie, the title of which means “noisy ghost,” is about a haunted household focusing on a little girl who “They’re baaaaack”) encounters malevolent spirits through the television (as can also occur, again by the by, through the “Big Screen” of cinema).
The movie pulled one into a demonic circumstance in this movie that even used actual skeletons rising out of the moody water of a family’s backyard pool.
A movie or a seance?
Not entertaining was the series of unfortunate events:
The young actor who played Robbie Freeling had the mechanical arms of a clown doll tightened too much around his neck during filming, almost strangling him. (Spielberg had to jump to the rescue.)
Dominique Dunne, who played Dana Freeling, was murdered in 1982. Dunne was strangled by her ex-boyfriend, John Thomas Sweeney, on October 30, 1982, only months after the first film’s release. She died on November 4 at age 22.
Julian Beck, who played the sinister Reverend Kane in Poltergeist II, died of stomach cancer.
Will Sampson, who played Taylor in Poltergeist II, died after surgery. Sampson died in 1987 from post-operative complications, often described as kidney failure. He is also said in many accounts to have performed a spiritual cleansing or Native ritual on the Poltergeist II set because of unease around the production.
Most jarring:
Heather O’Rourke, who played Carol Anne, died suddenly at age 12. O’Rourke, the child star of all three films, died on February 1, 1988, before Poltergeist III was released. More recent reporting says her death was from intestinal stenosis, a congenital condition that had reportedly been misdiagnosed as Crohn’s disease, leading to septic shock. Her family and friends have objected to sensational “curse” rumors because they feel those claims obscure the real child and the real medical tragedy. We beg to discern otherwise.
Lou Perryman, who played Pugsley in the first film, was murdered in 2009.
Richard Lawson, who played Ryan in the first film, survived a deadly plane crash.
Brian Gibson, director of Poltergeist II, died relatively young. Gibson is sometimes included in curse accounts because he died in 2004 at age 59. This is much less directly tied to the original cluster of tragedies, but it is part of an expanded list.
The whole pattern naturally struck people as spiritually ominous. Similar misfortunes were attached to filming The Omen.
Twilight Zone: The Movie?
This is the most severe and genuinely tragic event associated with a Spielberg project. Spielberg co-produced the anthology film and directed one of its segments. During the filming of a separate segment directed by John Landis, a low-flying Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter was caught in the debris of a pyrotechnic explosion. It spun out of control and crashed on the ground, killing actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, Myca Dinh Le (7) and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (6).
And so it is, Mr. Spielberg.
Time to get the hint. Time for all of us to. Time for our priests and preachers and podcasters to preach about it.