Say a prayer for me now. (Sapphic Screen).

Publication: Curve

Publication Date: 01-JUN-03

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COPYRIGHT 2003 Curve Magazine, Outspoken Enterprises, San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 863-6538

SEVERAL LESBIAN FILMS ARE STILL in distribution limboland--including the brilliantly claustrophobic Politics of Fur and the innovative thriller Nightstalker--and television's on summer hiatus (though Bravo's got Gay Weddings 2 and the ladies make some startling decisions on Showtime's Queer as Folk). What's a girl to do? Hit a festival, rent a video and witness this smattering of films about chicks and religion.

Hell House (www.7thart.com)

Every Halloween, a Dallas Pentecostal church puts on a souped-up haunted house in order to scare the kids straight--sometimes literally. Tour guides take the visitors--about 13,000 a year--through sets decorated with scenes from botched abortions, AIDS deaths, school massacres, teen suicides and, of course, hell. Hell House, the documentary, follows the costly and outrageous process from beginning to end. It ultimately offers an intimate, rather nonbiased, portrait of the people who haunt this religious world as well as their detractors. Now that they sell Hell House Kits for $150, shouldn't you...

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