Hell's Bells: The Dangers of Rock 'N' Roll is a Christian

Christian film

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 documentary film released in 1989. Eric Holmberg produced and directed the film, as well as its successor: Hell's Bells 2 - The Power and Spirit of Popular Music (2004)

Overview

The film examines the relationship of rock music

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 to sex

Sex

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, violence

Violence

Violence is the use of physical force to apply a state to others contrary to their wishes. violence, while often a stand-alone issue, is often the culmination of other kinds of conflict, e.g...

, suicide

Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...

, drug use

Recreational drug use

Recreational drug use is the use of a drug, usually psychoactive, with the intention of creating or enhancing recreational experience. Such use is controversial, however, often being considered to be also drug abuse, and it is often illegal...

, rebellion

Rebellion

Rebellion, uprising or insurrection, is a refusal of obedience or order. It may, therefore, be seen as encompassing a range of behaviors aimed at destroying or replacing an established authority such as a government or a head of state...

, the occult

Occult

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, and other activities considered immoral by Biblical Theology

Theology

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The music in the documentary is music produced prior to the nineties. The film portrays various lyrics and visual imagery in rock music and rock stars as evidence that it is satanic

Satanism

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 or anti Christian.

It also opines on the theory of backmasking

Backmasking

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Its views do not represent the conventional Christian view on metal music.