Why Candace Cameron Bure Thinks Scary Movies Can Be "Incredibly Demonic" (2025)

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Candace Cameron Bure Avoids Scary Movies Out of Fear They're "Incredibly Demonic"

Candace Cameron Bure won’t be tuning into any scary movie marathons.

As the Full House alum recently revealed, she will not allow horror movies to be watched in her home, let alone stream one herself.

Why? “You’re opening up a portal,” she explained on the June 10 episode of her self-titled podcast. “If you’re watching this, or you’re playing this video game, or whatever. That’s a portal that could let stuff inside our home.”

Candace—who shares kids Natasha, 26, Lev, 25 and Maksim, 23 with husband Valeri Bure—admitted that her family will “roll their eyes” and “laugh” at her for her hot take, but she’s very serious about it.

“I don’t even want someone watching a scary movie in our house on the TV,” she continued. “To me, that’s just a portal.”

And while Candace—who is the Chief Creative Officer for the Great American Media company—clarified that she understands horror is not real, she believes something evil is created through the filmmaking process.

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“I’m in the film industry,” she admitted. “I understand how it all works. I know that movie specifically has a crew of 200 people and they’re lighting it and adding the sound effects and it’s makeup and camera people and actors, however there’s still something that can be incredibly demonic while they’ve made it.”

As she emphasized, “I feel like it’s a portal that gets opened up.”

Candace’s featured guest on the episode, Pastor Jonathan Pokluda concurred with her strong take, detailing that he had heard of actresses practicing “real witchcraft” for horror roles, and saying, “Even real witches actually sound the alarm, say, ‘Hey this is not okay, guys, you’re messing around with stuff, you don’t know what you’re messing around with.’”

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The 49-year-old added, “Yeah, and then you’re speaking it into all those homes if you’re watching it on TV—those are real witchcraft words, real spells.”

But Candace isn’t the only one in her household who takes the media she consumes seriously. She joked that her youngest son, Lev, who also joined on the podcast, has some boundaries that are even more strict than her.

“We know that if Lev is coming over and we’re going to watch a movie,” Candace explained. “He will not watch Rated R.”

Lev agreed with his mom, citing sex and foul language as “temptation,” featured in Rated R films. As he put it, “It’s difficult for me to pretend that it’s okay for me to view those things.”

Candace and her son may not be able to watch every movie coming out in 2025, but keep reading to see what films are hitting the big screen this year…

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Why Candace Cameron Bure Thinks Scary Movies Can Be "Incredibly Demonic" (2025)

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