Propaganda Corner: End of the Wicked

For the second installment of Propaganda Corner I shall be reviewing a little known Nigerian movie called End Of the Wicked.

Background
Produced by Liberty Ministries in Nigeria, this movie seeks to warn people about the evils of witches and witchcraft. I was made aware of this movie via a clip when looking up the Satanic Panic on Youtube. I saw the clip, and had little to think about. I then saw the Channel 4 Dispatches ep on how children in Nigeria are being abused because they are accused of being witches. This movie and the literature produced by Liberty is very anti-child. Claiming if children of 2 scream in the night or are ill often they are the devil's minions.

The film itself.
The movie starts with people in black robes flying in a forest using the special effects seen maybe in a low budget version of Superman. They are then greeted by their master, a man in heavy white make up with red mouth and chin. Here we are introduced to the "covern" (I appologise to friends who are witches and are in coverns for using the term, but it is what they use and this is a propaganda review.)

We are then introduced to the family of a successful business man. Most of the movie is about the covern tormenting the family and the father in prticular. Oddly enough by his own mother, who is a member of this "covern", the reason she gave for tormenting her, because he looks after her. (No sence to me either) Anyway, the youtube clip of where kids join happens, a dickgirl rape scene and other weird shit, including what looks like the real killing of a live goat on screen. Eventually, the surviving members of the family are saved by a pastor I beleive was played by the church's leader. The evil mother is exposed and subjected to "christian justice"

This is a hard movie to watch. It's a move with a very disjointed story. Normally villians have motivations against their chosen victims because of a sence of wrongdoing. Venom for example, the alien part feels rejected by Spider-Man for being torn off, and Eddie Brock pissed against spider man for his falling career. But the mother in this story respondes to her son's taking care of her with a misplaced desire to make him suffer. This movie would be laughable is it wasn't harmful. This movie was made to demonise witches and witchcraft. To show that they have no good intentions, only to make others suffer while gaining favor with the christian Satan. I've spoken to witches and none of them worship the christian satan nor do they go out of the way to harm others. Yet films like this has been a factor in the witchhunts that still go on in Nigerian, the country of origin today.