thanx Onyx. I did a terrible job introducing the topic in my OP here, but the topic is very interesting. I am gonna come back and post more here when I have some clearer ideas about what I want to say.

here, this is an interesting article about this type of thing:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/why-are-so-many-horror-films-christian-propaganda

That article mentions Nigeria, as an example of a place where scary stories can radicalize people, and make them more religious in order to fight demons. I have seen a documentary about that exact topic, a few years back... it showed clips from Nigerian movies in which people fought devils with crosses, exorcisms, etc... I think there were wizards who were Christian somehow... wizards that would fight demons using Christian tools. It all looked very medieval to me.

But, if this does not exist in the US, I would be very surprised. I bet there is a large part of the population in which the kids get sent to Jesus Camps, and they watch a lot of extremely Christian horror movies at home.

if you google Christian wizards, not necessarily in quotes, there are some bizarre sites that come up. Here's one:
https://gnosticcross.tripod.com/archive/2001_09_2.html

As people abandon their confidence in science, and rational behavior in general, we can probably expect to see a lot more of this type of thing in the future. Jesus protect us... whoops, see, I'm susceptible too.

Seriously though, horror movies could very easily be turned into a kind of propaganda arguing for the importance of a theocratic state. Equating political power with religious conviction, and the ability to fight evil... that sort of thing... in such a world, "christian wizards" could see themselves as being kind of like Jedi knights, fighting the forces of darkness... they wouldn't necessarily have to be right wing, although that's how it tends to be today.

I could absolutely see that happening... someone in the next generation of Pat Robertsons, starting a production company for making horror movies designed to make people more Christian, and then working with a more Christian federal government (say, if Mike Pence or Ted Cruz takes things in that direction, sometime in the next decade or two)... working with the federal government to churn out that type of movie, geared toward whatever their political agenda might be at the moment.

There used to be a group of people in Ohio called Patriot Pastors, who were very active politically. I'm not sure what happened to them. They might have changed their name, but I bet a lot of the same people are still up to their same old tricks. Sometimes Alex Jones sounds like he is thinking along these lines, too... I saw him compare Hillary Clinton to Linda Blair in The Exorcist at least once, back around October or so, last year.

I always thought Ted looked like our old friend Isaac, from CotC: