ABSTRACT
THE FINAL SUBSTANTIVE CHAPTER OF THIS PART of the book is fittingly devotedto eschatology – the study of all things to do with ‘the end’: the end of life, the end of all things, and of whatever may lie beyond ‘the end’ (e.g. resurrection, immortality, heaven, hell). As a medium, film has proved a fertile ground for the development of stories and visions about the end and ‘what lies beyond’. If the horror genre explores both the dangerous mystery of what lies beneath or beyond this present life, then apocalyptic visions of all kinds in the cinema offer speculations and reflections on what may or may not lie beyond it. Theology cannot but be interested in such speculations.This chapter considers three films offering quite different approaches to aspects of the future.
