Emma Carr

I was shown this film when I was around 5 yrs old as well as the other films in the thief in the night series. It has deeply traumatized me. After watching this film, I lived in terror of my parents being taken away from me at any moment “like a thief in the night” and would run into their room every night to make sure they were still here. Not surprisingly, I developed major abandonment issues from this cult like indoctrination, and had night terrors about the rapture/going to hell right up until my late thirties. I agree - showing this to a child equates to child abuse. After much therapy, the fear has finally left me. I am now 45 years old. I follow a Buddhist way of living these days and have so much peace. There is no such thing as hell. I’m no longer afraid of dying. Shame on the adults who thought showing this to children was ok.

I resonate with some of the comments on here. I was shown this film when I was around 5 yrs old as well as the successive films in the series. It has deeply traumatized me. After watching this film, I lived in terror of my parents being taken away from me at any moment “like a thief in the night” and would run into their room every night to make sure they were still here. Not surprisingly, I developed major abandonment issues from this cult like indoctrination, and had night terrors about the rapture/going to hell right up until my late thirties. I agree - showing this to a child equates to child abuse. After much therapy, the fear has finally left me. I am now 45 years old. I follow a Buddhist way of living these days and have so much peace. There is no such thing as hell. I’m no longer afraid of dying. Shame on the adults who thought showing this to children was ok.