WITH SAVED! having gone wide last week, the rest of America now has a chance to see Brian Dannelly’s satire of life at an evangelical high school. Or, as the film’s producer, Michael Stipe, put it: Saved! is “like those monster vampire high school kind of movies, only here the monsters are Jesus-freak teenagers.”

In the weeks leading up to the movie’s release, United Artists, the studio behind it, nervously suggested that it thought–hoped–that Saved! would play to the same religious audience that made The Passion of the Christ such a hit. Peter Adee of MGM (UA’s parent company) told the New York Times that the movie “has a certain Christian appeal, but it’s also a little irreverent.”