Pixar took the Myth to propel an old man with a child-like innocence to Paradise Falls, somewhere he and his late wife considered sacred. On his journey, he is also protecting a child who does not take much interest in their son.
Stephen King used St. Jude’s Parable of Lost Boys myth to lure children instead of protecting them to foreshadow the betrayal and wickedness of IT.
This popular animated movie was loosely inspired by the Myth and inverted it to have a separate area of heaven create babies as a business instead of housing those who perished in innocence.
Sir James Matthew Barrie was inspired by St. Judes Parable of Lost Boys Myth when he created Neverland and the Lost Boys. He created a child hero who protects the Lost Boys destined to remain children without parents in the magic of Neverland. Peter Pan's spirit (shadow) fights him when he leaves Neverland, pulling him back to the heaven of which he belongs.