10 Most Terrifying Horror Movie Cults

The mumblegore indie horror movement gave us its take on cults with this 2013 found footage story loosely inspired by the 1970s People's Temple and the massacre at Jonestown.

Director Ti West had made his name with an engaging pastiche of 70s satanic panic stories in The House Of The Devil's blood-loving devil worshippers. Here, however, he is working much more in the realm of the chillingly plausible.

Eden Parish is a remote, utopian, self-sufficient commune led by "Father" Charles Anderson Reed, a magnetic preacher who gives new hope to recovering addicts and others that society has failed.

Of course, the difference between a remote retreat for the soul and a prison from which there is little hope for escape can be surprisingly little. The armed guards certainly don't help!

And neither does the increasingly paranoid Father's evasive answers to the interview questions from our VICE journalist heroes. (The Sacrament gets away with a much more professional style of shooting than most amateurish found footage movies by making its cameraman character an actual professional).

Even somebody whose only knowledge of the real Jonestown is a tasteless "drink the Kool-Aid" joke can see where this is all headed, and sure enough Eden Parish has a shockingly well-stocked drug store for a commune in the middle of nowhere.