Review of Holy Hell (2016) by Tara J — 12 May 2016

I saw this film at Sundance. While the footage was indeed striking, the overalll purpose of the movie seemed to be to convince us that this big scary cult is still out to get us, except that the cult didn't seem big or scary. A bunch of people running around in the woods or meditating. I mean I get the whole sexual abuse thing with minors but these guys were all adults in the 80s. Rampant gay sex in the 80s isn't exactly a shocker.

Overall I just found the documentary lacking a lot of documenting... maybe we need a new category called a convince-umentary? I gave it 1 star for effort, though the film editing was terrible, as the other critics have mentioned.