A better influence is Ron Ormond. He started out as an exploitational moviemaker. Anyway, Ormond was in an airplane crash. The whole family got saved and started making independent Baptist movies. Worms stuffed in people's mouths to illustrate 'the worm dieth not'.
Christian films have better production values today, and that's a shame.
There was a charm about those movies that's lost in today's high tech Christian Hollywood. I was making a serious film about American fundamentalism. However, in the transition from screenplay to dramatic movie, many changes occurred. For one thing, lines that I uttered so effortlessly in my fundie days were heightened and given new meaning when read by actors. I tried to bring them down.