Actress and producer Candace Cameron Bure said she avoids scary movies in her home, describing television as a potential spiritual “portal” that can invite harmful influences. Speaking on her podcast with Pastor Jonathan Pokluda, Bure explained that her family sometimes teases her for referring to the TV that way, but she takes the concern seriously.
“Like if you’re watching this, or you’re playing this video game, or whatever, that’s a portal that could let stuff inside our home,” she said. “I don’t even want someone watching a scary movie in our house on the TV, because, to me, that’s just a portal.”
Though Bure has spent her career in film and television and understands how movies are made, she argued there can still be spiritual consequences. “I feel like it’s a portal that gets opened up and let in,” she said, adding that some content can be “incredibly demonic.”
Pokluda agreed, warning that entertainment is often dismissed as harmless. “This is how [Satan] works,” he said. “He tries to disguise under that stuff… If you ever are like, ‘Oh, I’m not gonna be impacted by that.’ That’s what Satan wants you to feel.”
He referenced reports that some productions have incorporated real spells into scripts. Screenwriter Carina MacKenzie previously said she researched actual spells for “The Originals,” altering some wording before using them. She later recalled a warning from a viewer who feared the show was “putting spells in everybody’s living room.”
Bure concluded that when viewers repeat such content, they may be “speaking it into” their homes.
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