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contain spoilers. I just recently watched Ti West's The Sacrament and
I have been meaning to blog about it. I really enjoy Ti West and
after watching the trailer I was super stoked to see this film. I
find religion to be quite terrifying and cults also. I was prepared
to be super scared by this movie. Well....I have watched lots of
documentaries on cults, so this movie ended up being a lot more
predictable than I expected. Don't get me wrong, the movie was very
entertaining and I would recommend it to anyone that loves horror
movies or thrillers. The movie ran about an hour and a half. I think
that if maybe there was just 30 minutes more the audience could have
been given more behind the scenes of why the cult members were so
terrified and desperate to leave. The religious followers built their
parish Eden Parish from the ground up with their own hands and their
own money too. The movie just felt to me like a movie version of the
massacre at Jonestown. The character of Father had a deep hold of its
followers and he was charismatic and powerful. He also had a drug
problem, a problem with sleeping with members of the congregation,
and worst of all a death wish should his power ever be threatened or
compromised. I am trying so hard not to be critical of the movie
because I really did find it entertaining but it was just too much of
a play by play of the events of Jonestown. If you have ever listened
to the chilling recordings of Jim Jones as he orders his followers to
drink the poison and you can hear screams and crying children...you
will still be shocked seeing the pain that the followers go through
as they slowly die. Families cling to one another and it is a truly
scary scene to watch. I liked the end of the movie and that 2 of the
filmmakers successfully made it to the helicopter and were flown away
to safety by the wounded pilot. Ti West did an awesome job making you
care about the people in the film and even though you may have known
where the story was headed it was still an amazing ride.
Monday, June 2, 2014
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We accept her, we accept her. One of us, one of us. Gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble.
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