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🗓️ 23 August 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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A bunch of altruistic hot people join a cult in 1980s West Hollywood, what could possibly go wrong? Using footage shot by the cult's (known as The Buddahfield) in-house documentarian, we follow these lovable gorgeous weirdos as they slowly become disenchanted by their 'master' 'lord' 'leader' 'prophet' who claims to have a direct line to God. It all, inevitably, falls apart. Lives are ruined, faiths are shaken, and fruit salads are painstakingly made.
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0:57.0 | And every boy I wanted to date when I was in high school. Why do you like that? Like what? |
1:01.6 | Like how you are. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Can we just do that? |
1:04.9 | I watched my so-called life. I'm not kidding you. At least once a year. Yeah. |
1:09.3 | Do you know I dress we could share this with our listeners? I went to a 90s party dress |
1:12.8 | as Rayan Graf. Rayan Graf was my everything. Everything with Ray-Dee. |
1:18.4 | What's my everything. Oh, girl, what are we talking about today? Holy hell. We're talking |
1:26.4 | about a documentary called Holy Hell. Did you workshop that on the way here today? |
1:30.1 | I did it. This whole, okay, this is a movie about a bunch of hot people who join a cult. |
1:35.3 | My name is Will Allen. I started making movies when I was 13. I went to film school and |
1:41.1 | three weeks after graduating, my sister introduced me to her spiritual teacher and my whole life |
1:46.8 | took a different path. It was the middle of the 80s and we wanted something different. |
1:59.1 | They were so alive. Living from their heart and playing and jumping in ice cold rivers |
2:08.4 | and taking through the forest at night and oh my god, I want me some of that. |
2:13.0 | We started it. This is what we wanted. It was our little utopia. We were all there because |
2:18.0 | of this one man. He's very charismatic, like a child. Very playful. He could dance, |
2:22.8 | he was artistic. He was all those things we all wanted to be. He was just this beautiful, |
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