Shit like The Pope's Exorcist or The Conjuring movies -- love a good slasher/horror flick, but those are just telegraphed jump scares, dumb plot points and snide comments about 'nonbelievers'

Depends. If I'm working in an existing system and I know what the shape of the thing I'm writing is, then I might write the test first and tdd it out as that process is usually a bit faster for me.

If I'm developing a new feature I'd probably spike out a solution and write an acceptance test to match it, then if I'm feeling pedantic I might throw away the spike code and tdd it back up from scratch but I haven't done that in a while now.

This all depends on the language and the abstraction layer I'm at.

They get your neighbors to turn you in.

i'm top left

it helps the portfolios of the wealthy, what else is there to consider?