And it benefits from the presence of one more droppable name, indie singer-songwriter Nick Cave, who shares credit for the ominous score with Warren Ellis and narrates ably but unobtrusively among the many talking heads. No, “Prophet’s Prey” isn’t definitive, but it is compelling and occasionally even cinematic. Compounding the danger is the dynastic instinct the result here is a microcosm of, say, North Korea. As the film makes clear, the anti-establishment rhetoric of isolationist cults forces their retreat from society, giving almost absolute power to the leader. NEW YORK Ap For the first time in network history, SHOWTIME will bring two highly-anticipated films, LISTEN TO ME MARLON and PROPHET’S PREY to theaters nationwide, under the. It is not just another human anomaly, however. Others may not have been proven in a court of law, but the case that Berg lays out is overwhelming. Heaven’s Gate: The Cult of Cults digs deep into the UFO cult, which started in 1975 with the disappearance of 20 people from a small town in Oregon and ended in a horrific mass suicide. Many of the worst details explain why the man is in prison. Prophets Prey has a solid 7.2 rating on IMDB, and a near-perfect 93 percent on ratings aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, with a slightly lower 78 percent audience score.

The story of how Jeffs squeezed his flock into submission, even devotion, is truly terrifying. The tone is soft-spoken to the point of being hypnotic, yet the content is fire and brimstone, a constant drumbeat of “Obey the prophet! Obey the prophet!”īerg paces the story like a horror film, and rightly so. The most chilling of all these voices is Jeffs’ own, preserved in tape-recorded sermons and prophesying. But it draws on enough inside voices - or, rather, previously inside voices, since cast aside by the prophet - to paint a chilling portrait of a megalomaniac. It only gives a cursory nod to all the meticulous work by law enforcement and prosecutors that led to his downfall. Continuing to deliver powerful and riveting documentary programming, SHOWTIME will debut the world premieres of two highly-anticipated films at the 2015. The narrative that Berg has assembled will not be the definitive story of Warren Jeffs. While Brower, too, gets his screen time, the film very much remains in the hands of its director, Amy Berg, who came to fame herself as the maker of “Deliver Us From Evil.” That 2006 documentary was about the American priest Oliver O’Grady, who admitted to sexually abusing two dozen children, but also about the cover-up by the Catholic hierarchy that protected him. While researching the FLDS, Krakauer forged an alliance with private investigator Sam Brower, who wrote about his seven years digging into the church in a 2011 e-book, also titled “Prophet’s Prey” (and with an intro from Krakauer - a nice marketing coup).

Also, and not incidentally, this was before the younger Jeffs was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List and later convicted of child sexual assault.

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