There are things that set
the hair on the back of your neck a tingle; things that make your skin
crawl. These are little warning signs
that your body gives off saying that it is time to turn around and head for the
exits.
But what happens when you
are a documentary filmmaking team and you get so involved in telling your story
that these human nature warning signs get switched off … or, they are simply
ignored. You know, like the frog in the
pot of water, where the heat is turned up slowly until you get boiled frog …
the frog never saw it coming!
That’s what Jodie (Jane
Elizabeth Barry) and her filmmaking partner Kevin (Geoff Pinfield) find
themselves in — a pot of trouble with the heat on — in Aussie filmmaker Glenn
Tiggs’ Apocalypse Cult, which will be making its domestic DVD debut on
Oct. 31 courtesy of Wild Eye Releasing … MVD Entertainment Group will be
managing the domestic sales and distribution efforts.
They are shooting some
footage at a Down Under self-help group when their attention is drawn to one of
the members in the group who claims to have escaped from a doomsday cult that
is up to no good in the Outback. That’s
just too much to pass up, so they decide to check it out.
Filmed on location at the
famed Kattemingga Lodge (about an hour outside of Melbourne), Jodie and her
cameraman make contact with two young women of the cult, who agree to take them
through the spooky woods to meet their leader.
They seem sweet and innocent, even harmless, so when told that the one
condition of their introduction is that they would have to be blindfolded for
their short trip they didn’t think much of it.
They agree — where was the hair on the back of the neck warning?
Once to their destination
they meet Michael (David Macrae), who is a mild-mannered bald guy with an
all-female cult. Jodie and Kevin are
given full access to the group — interview and film to your heart’s content!
Did they find it
disturbing that Michael made it clear that he could sleep with any of the
members of his cult — including young girls?
Would Michael invite Jodie to share his bed … didn’t that creep her
out? Did they find it disturbing that
there were no men; no boys in the cult — didn’t that give Kevin the chills?
Glenn Tiggs’ Apocalypse
Cult is a slow burn creep-out.
The Australian locations are chilling and the payoff for our filmmaking
duo is well-worth waiting for … like the poor frog in the pot full of water,
how can a bald lecher and cult of dazed women and young girls possibly be a
threat?
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