#1 Gene Jones as Father in 'The Sacrament' (2013)
Ti West's 'The Sacrament' dominates the cult worshiping film world with a modern look at the Jonestown Massacre. Based on the real recordings of witness testimonies and adding A.J. Bowen and his documentary crew to provide us with a first hand account of the inner workings that lead to drinking the Kool-Aid. 'The Sacrament' is as close to real as it gets and its scary as hell. At the forefront of it all is the unexpectedly charismatic Father (brilliantly portrayed by Gene Jones). At first he is an entirely believable and perhaps even lovable character. Later his conspiracy theories and madness lead to chaos. In the end a question still remains as to who was right and who was wrong. That's the real horror in how well Jones convinced us that not all cults are worse than society as a whole.
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