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I found myself standing outside a Watford multiplex in the midst of spiritual turmoil. It was Hallowe’en 1999, and as a long-term horror movie fan I was itching to buy my ticket for The Blair Witch Project. But I had a problem.

A few years before, I’d become a Christian, and since being ‘born-again’ I’d assumed that horror was one passion I would need to give up. After all, with its supposed glorification of darkness, death and the Devil, horror appears to be the very antithesis of the Christian hope. So, instead, I went to see Bowfinger, a forgettable Eddie Murphy comedy.