On the latest episode of her podcast, actor and outspoken Christian Candace Cameron Bure warned that horror movies can be a “portal” to evil influences. During a conversation that aired June 10, the mother of three adult children spoke with son Lev Bure and Texas Pastor Jonathan Pokluda about spiritual warfare and satanic attacks.
Bure opened by saying it’s important to talk about darker topics and “expose what’s been hiding in the dark for a long time.” Pokluda, whose new book “Your Story Has a Villain” addresses spiritual warfare, admitted that although he teaches the Bible for a living, he didn’t “know that much about what [Satan] can do and how he works and how he operates.”
Lev Bure, 25, said reading “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis was his introduction to the topic. “The acknowledgment of spiritual warfare…is half the battle,” he said. “You can’t fight a battle that you don’t know you’re in.”
Without God in your life, Lev added, “there’s a void [that’s] only going to be filled by evil.” He acknowledged that “makes you want to stand up and fight, knowing you’re under attack.”
Candace Cameron Bure: Scary Movies Can Be ‘Incredibly Demonic’
That’s when Candace Cameron Bure brought up scary movies, noting that her grown children often roll their eyes at her stance. “They laugh at me because the portal, I’m like, ‘You’re opening up a portal,’” she said. “You’re watching this or you’re playing this video game or whatever, like that’s a portal that could let stuff inside our home.”
Bure continued:
I don’t even want someone watching a scary movie in our house on the TV, because to me, that’s just a portal. Listen, I’m in the film industry. I understand how it all works. I know that movie specifically has a crew of 200 people, and they’re lighting it, and they’re adding the sound effects, and it’s makeup and camera people and actors. However, there’s still something that can be incredibly demonic…I feel like it’s a portal that gets opened up and let in.
Bure, 49, starred in the sitcoms “Full House” and “Fuller House” and more than two dozen Hallmark Channel movies. She’s now chief creative officer at Great American Media, starring in faith-based and family-friendly content.
In a 1997 episode of “Boy Meets World,” Bure played a Satan-worshiping witch—a guest role she said she wouldn’t take today.
Bure’s comments about a demonic portal made headlines. On the Jezebel website, a writer took a jab at Bure’s stance. “Clearly, the girl has forgotten that she stars on perhaps the most demonic network on television,” wrote Audra Heinrichs. “One that churns out nothing but conservative propaganda thinly veiled by garlands and twinkle lights.”
Candace Cameron Bure and Guests Discuss Media Influence
Bure also reiterated a concern that Pokluda had raised on social media about the beverage product Liquid Death. “Do you want to buy a product that is literally being cursed?” Bure asked listeners. “As it’s going out into distribution?”
