Goodacre, Prym2025-04-022025-04-022025https://hdl.handle.net/1828/21737A bad miracle is a term coined in Jordan Peele’s 2022 film Nope. Bad miracles represent the contradiction and connection between the firm, hegemonic, Christian ‘good’ and the terrifying, consuming unknown. Postmodern science fiction horror offers bad miracles as unavoidable: the deconstruction of long-held truths, whether they be religious or scientific, are occurring all around us and are endemic to progress. This is effective in delivering horror, but it is also affective. While religious experiences like modern megachurches offer a space for empowerment and loud, comforting praise, postmodern science fiction horror films ask us to exercise our fear, our reason, our empathy, and our ability to sit in the intimacy of not-knowing. Through the investigation of popular postmodern science fiction horror films, the affective nature of cinema, and the rise of the megachurch, the ability for fear and film to offer growth through narrative disempowerment becomes clear.enscience fictionhorrorfilmreligionmegachurchpostmodernPoster