Should be in the horror genre! Luckily, my experience was not like that.

I saw it years ago. I found it frightening. One of the reasons I'm here.

It was nothing like Jesus Camp...thank God.

LOL. I was just talking about this in another thread.

I couldn't watch it.

I was born and raised a Mormon. I just remember wanting to make my parents happy more than anything. They had their own way of impressing on me how important my following the church was, and it got really bad in high school, but it wasn't anything like the horror these kids went through. I had non-religious friends and I was able to digest secular media when I was a kid. I feel horrible for anyone who's so isolated and is taken advantage of so badly.

Not so bad. My parents were liberal Methodist Haiti missionaries and the MK (missionary kid) summer camps were interdenominational, so not very heavy-handed. Mostly it was about fun activities, beach trips, boating, riding horses, crafts, etc.

I haven’t seen that movie. From the comments, I think it is best that I avoid it.

That movie saddened and enraged me far more than I expected. It is abhorrent what they do to those children.

Lol yeh that movie was scary. I never had ties to a church. Think it was the late 80s i rejected the god thing. I sometimes wonder if following sioux beliefs like burning sweet grass means i am not totally athist but step mom says it is more earth well forgot how she said it. After watching that movie i did start arming myself

The Lunatic is on the path. Remembering days, and daisy chains and laughs, Got to keep the loonies on the path.

That was scarier than most horror movies. I've definitely encountered more than a few of those "types." (but then I live in Missouri, where it was filmed :/ )

Yup, terrifying. Watched it with someone who grew up in the church who had such a differentt expereience watching it. She said it was like watching her childhood

Between several summers at evangelical summer camp, and attending Charismatic churches for several years, I honestly didn't understand (at the time of the film's release) why people thought it was disturbing.

Now I do.

That film was pretty awful.

The worship of the cardboard bush2 was one of the worst parts.

it would be interesting to see a follow up film.

Those kids must be in their mid-twenties or so?

Indoctrination of that sort was attempted with my peers, but it was not successful in most cases.

We just knew what to say when, when it was necessary.

I couldn't sit thru it. It was way too sickening for me. I was raised Episcopalian, so we never had it that bad.

I think I cried at one point...