Thoughts on Holy Hell
The Movie I watched for this project is Holy Hell (2014) dir. Will Allen. This documentary explains Allens time in a spiritual group called Buddahfest. While I was watching this film I found a few things that I would say disturbed me. One in particular was when they were doing the transfer of energy from the master. The scene of the girl getting this performed and her seeming in pain and afterwards falling to the ground is so strange to me. There a point where David Christopher is explaining his experience with this and he says he begins to convulse. It confuses me how one man could have so much power over somebody. Another thing that disturbed me was when Michele had to leave in fear of his group being called a cult and he took only a few people with him. It was very weird to see the the video messages his other followers sent to him. You can see in their face how brainwashed they were and how much they really did believe this man was sent from God himself. It really...