The 1970s Christian Rapture Movie Era Was Completely Unhinged

Before Christian cinema became an industry of soft-focus redemption arcs and surprisingly recognizable supporting actors, it had a more alarming phase: the rapture thriller.The genre’s defining text was A Thief in the Night, released in the early 1970s by Mark IV Pictures. Its premise was brutally efficient. A woman wakes up to discover her husband is gone, millions have vanished and the rapture has happened without her. From there, the movie sprints through one-world government paranoia, underg