Holy Hell
“22 years inside a modern cult”
Documentary
An inside look at a West Hollywood cult formed by a charismatic teacher in the 1980s that eventually imploded.
VIBE
This documentary feels like a slow descent into a rabbit hole. It's an intimate, unsettling look at devotion gone awry, capturing the suffocating grip of a charismatic leader and the eventual, inevitable unraveling.
unsettlingclaustrophobicdisillusionedintensesteadydocumentaryfound footagepersonal narrativepsychologicalfaithdeceptionidentitycontrol
religious cult1980s
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