{"id":84191,"date":"2026-07-08T08:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84191"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:27:13","slug":"why-are-people-calling-the-minions-movie-satanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/why-are-people-calling-the-minions-movie-satanic\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are People Calling The \u2018Minions\u2019 Movie \u2018Satanic\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Newsnation<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinions &amp; Monsters\u201d is the newest addition to the family-friendly \u201cDespicable Me\u201d franchise, starring the beloved pint-sized yellow henchmen, but certain themes in their latest adventure led some corners of the internet to label the PG-rated movie as \u201csatanic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a desperate attempt to revive their careers, two minions decide to magically summon monsters to star in their thriller movie. They use a forbidden spellbook inspired by the tales of H.P. Lovecraft to summon one of his iconic \u201cCthulhu\u201d characters. The spell doesn\u2019t go exactly as planned and instead appears as a small, cute green monster named Goomi.\u00a0Despite the usual silly antics that ensue, some parents deemed the film \u201cdemonic\u201d and unsuitable for children.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TailahOfficial\/videos\/parents-the-new-minions-movie-is-demonic-and-not-for-children-follow-this-page-f\/1685656939246653\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One Facebook post\u00a0<\/a>with hundreds of thousands of views claimed the movie was trying to \u201cteach your kids to summon demons and do rituals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Newsnation: \u201cMinions &amp; Monsters\u201d is the newest addition to the family-friendly \u201cDespicable Me\u201d franchise, starring the beloved pint-sized yellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84192,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84191\/revisions\/84192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}