Holy Hell

Discover an unadulterated and shocking first-person perspective on how cult leaders seduce and subvert through 20 years of footage from a devoted follower. When he was just out of college, Will Allen found himself looking for a way to lead a good life; his search led him to Buddhafield, a secretive spiritualist community united in their quest for self-improvement at the hands of their magnetic and enlightened leader. A budding filmmaker, Allen became the community’s official documentarian—capturing a stunning two decades in which devastating truths and a sinister underbelly were revealed, as devotion turned to paranoia. Today, Allen turns the camera on himself and fellow ex-cult members, holding up a magnifying glass to the mind of a megalomaniac increasingly drunk on his own power and able to achieve unimaginable psychological control.