"So I wanted to put this evil force out in the desert, and I wanted to set good against it. I said, 'Wait a minute, whenever you see a horror movie that is good against evil, good and the symbols of good - the cross, the holy water - they're almost used like Kryptonite.'

"Vampire movies are what I was thinking of. You almost never go to the real Christian spine that is the basis of those symbols. I thought, 'Why not give Christianity its real ups in this thing and just take it flat out and use it?'

"So I used the character of David as a guy who has a soul conversion to Christianity, flat out. I'm not trying to sell Christianity the way the 'Left Behind' guys do, or Mel Gibson, for instance, in 'The Passion of the Christ'; that's not my bag at all. What I wanted to do was write something where Christianity got its ups against evil."

also... "It just seems to me that, in a lot of horror movies, evil is very attractive. Evil gets all the glamour shots, and very often good doesn't get that balanced out... But I'm not trying to sell Christianity. I just think that it is a really great doctrine, and it underlies a lot of the archetypes of the genre, and I wanted to bring that home."

Some comments by Steven King from an article about the movie.

I watched the first hour and decided I wasn't in the mood for horror so I watched the conclusion of "10.5 Apocaplypse". Ha! A big-dumb-by-the-numbers disaster movie that rearranges the North American continent and nearly wipes out the western United States. That was what I was in the mood for. Hmmmm.

"So I wanted to put this evil force out in the desert, and I wanted to set good against it. I said, 'Wait a minute, whenever you see a horror movie that is good against evil, good and the symbols of good - the cross, the holy water - they're almost used like Kryptonite.'

"Vampire movies are what I was thinking of. You almost never go to the real Christian spine that is the basis of those symbols. I thought, 'Why not give Christianity its real ups in this thing and just take it flat out and use it?'

"So I used the character of David as a guy who has a soul conversion to Christianity, flat out. I'm not trying to sell Christianity the way the 'Left Behind' guys do, or Mel Gibson, for instance, in 'The Passion of the Christ'; that's not my bag at all. What I wanted to do was write something where Christianity got its ups against evil."

also... "It just seems to me that, in a lot of horror movies, evil is very attractive. Evil gets all the glamour shots, and very often good doesn't get that balanced out... But I'm not trying to sell Christianity. I just think that it is a really great doctrine, and it underlies a lot of the archetypes of the genre, and I wanted to bring that home."

Some comments by Steven King from an article about the movie.

I watched the first hour and decided I wasn't in the mood for horror so I watched the conclusion of "10.5 Apocaplypse". Ha! A big-dumb-by-the-numbers disaster movie that rearranges the North American continent and nearly wipes out the western United States. That was what I was in the mood for. Hmmmm.

Interesting comments from SK. Thanks! I can't disagree with what he's saying about going for balance, and the idea sounds promising. Still, I think he handled it better in the book. It was just too much of a big blunt object in the movie.