Walt Disney Animation Studios just released the first trailer for its upcoming kids’ movie, “Hexed,” and it’s already getting attention.
Jenn Nizza, a former psychic who abandoned the occult after coming to faith in Jesus, described the film as “really disturbing,” arguing in an interview with CBN News that Disney is presenting witchcraft — necromancy, as it’s called in Scripture — “in a really beautiful way.”
“[It] makes me think of Satan masquerading as an angel of light — and that’s really disturbing,” she said.
The movie, releasing in theaters Nov. 25, tells the story of a young teenage girl named Billie, an outcast struggling to fit in. She soon discovers she has magical powers and enters a world called Hexe, where she learns more about witchcraft, spells, and how to channel her supernatural abilities.
While the film seems to suggest there is witchcraft that is morally good, Nizza explains that’s not the case, pointing to biblical admonitions against such practices.
In Deuteronomy 18:10-14 (NLT), it says:
Do not let your people practice fortune-telling, or use sorcery, or interpret omens, or engage in witchcraft, or cast spells, or function as mediums or psychics, or call forth the spirits of the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD. It is because the other nations have done these detestable things that the LORD your God will drive them out ahead of you. But you must be blameless before the LORD your God. The nations you are about to displace consult sorcerers and fortune-tellers, but the LORD your God forbids you to do such things.
There is no morally acceptable witchcraft in God’s sight, according to Scripture.
Although some might argue movies like “Hexed” are just entertainment, Nizza said such films are problematic.
“It’s so important to disregard the aesthetic, because it’s the same evil and it’s the same author of these practices: the devil,” she said, later adding, “This isn’t just a movie. This is implanting and brainwashing the demonic agenda into your minds and into the minds of your children.”
Nizza continued, “We ought to guard our eye gates, our ear gates, and we should be extremely discerning and, honestly, not glorify or celebrate anything that Jesus died on the cross for.”
For her part, Nizza could relate to the main protagonist in “Hexed,” because her interest in witchcraft began at a young age, when she was searching for answers, meaning, and belonging.
“Through that vulnerability … she’s offered this purpose, identity, and power through witchcraft,” she said of Billie’s character. “That is exactly how it started for me when those demonic doors were opened … at age 12 [or] 13.”
And, much like it’s portrayed in “Hexed,” Nizza believed the divination she was practicing was a benefit to herself and those around her because — in her words — she wasn’t “out there trying to curse people for bad things to happen to them.”
“I was doing readings because I believed I really was talking to deceased people, and I had to help them get messages out to their loved ones that were here for … healing, solutions, some sort of peace, some sort of wisdom.”
It wasn’t until her salvation and her abandonment of the occult that she learned she was not, in fact, speaking to dead people.
Instead, she recalled, she was in communication with “demons” who were “masquerading as grandmothers, husbands, wives, and children.”
“I was completely demonically oppressed,” she said. “Of course, I wouldn’t have known that word then — heavy times of depressions, anxieties. … Demonic oppression is a side effect — is what I call it — or a consequence of dealing with the demonic, serving the devil. That’s what I was doing, serving the devil.”
When she was saved, Nizza said, she was indwelled with the Holy Spirit, who led her to study the Bible, where she learned God condemns witchcraft in its entirety.
Watch our full conversation with Nizza in the video above.
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