Those Hollywood Values

A few years ago, a documentary called Hell House explored the phenomenon of evangelical churches that used Halloween style haunted houses to rail against sin. Instead of using vampires and ghouls to scare kids, these houses scare them with scenes of drug abuse, abortions, and heavy metal. Leave it to those in Hollywood to find the humor in all this, without changing a thing. A group of Hollywood theater producers bought one of the "outreach kits" sold by the Rev who came up with the concept and have been running the show in LA with luminaries such as Richard Belzer and Bill Maher playing the part of Satan. It plays as parody without changing a bit of dialogue or scene direction, apparently. You gotta' love them Hollywood types!