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== Media coverage == [[File:Holy Ghost People still.jpg|thumb|Snake handling in the ''Holy Ghost People'' documentary]] A number of films and television programs have been made about religious snake handling. * ''[[Holy Ghost People (1967 film)|Holy Ghost People]]'' is a 1967 documentary by [[Peter Adair]]. It is about the service of a snake handling [[Pentecostal]] community in [[Scrabble Creek]], [[West Virginia]], United States. This documentary has entered the [[public domain]] and is available at the [[Internet Archive]]. * ''[[Heaven Come Down]]'' is a 2006 television [[documentary film]] about some unusual worship practices of some [[Pentecostal]] Christians in [[Appalachia]], including snake handling. * ''Snake Salvation'' is a 2013 series produced by the [[National Geographic Channel]], comprising 16 episodes in a [[reality television]] format.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/|title=National Geographic TV Shows, Specials & Documentaries |website=National Geographic Channel}}</ref> The show featured two modern snake-handling pastors and their congregations. The show's focus was on [[Jamie Coots]], who subsequently died of a snakebite. The other featured pastor was Andrew Hamblin, pastor of the Tabernacle Church of God in LaFollette, Tennessee. Hamblin, a protégé of Coots, was worshiping at his mentor's church alongside Coots when the fatal snake bite occurred in February 2014.<ref name="kentucky.com">{{cite web |last=Estep |first=Bill |url=http://www.kentucky.com/living/religion/article44471886.html |title=Snakebite death of Middlesboro pastor was quick, son says; medical treatment refused |publisher=Lexington Herald Leader |date=12 November 2015}}</ref> *''[[Them That Follow]]'' is a Sundance Film Nominee about a small Church and community that practices this religion. The film stars [[Walton Goggins]]. *''Alabama Snake'' is a 2020 HBO documentary which focuses on the 1991 attempted murder of Darlene Summerford by her husband, snake handling pastor Glenn Summerford.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schager |first=Nick |date=7 December 2020 |title=The Appalachian Preacher Who Tried to Murder His Wife via Snake Bite|work=The Daily Beast |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/alabama-snake-the-appalachian-preacher-who-tried-to-murder-his-wife-via-snake-bite |access-date=8 December 2020}}</ref>
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