As you know, most Canadian movies are horrifying for all the wrong reasons. However, the Canadian movie Ticket To Heaven is a scary yet well-crafted exercise, revealing how manipulative many religious cults are and that YOU could become a victim to one of them.
#1 by supersonic man on August 8, 2013 - 2:40 am
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I have a cousin who’s a Moonie. As far as I can tell he’s no different from any other churchgoing republican type.
I don’t buy the cult scare stories. I see too many people who label anything that wants to try new ways of thinking and living as a cult because it threatens their own mainstream faiths, I see too many links between the cult-recruitment scare stories of the seventies and the satanic-abuse scare stories of the eighties, and I’ve heard too many stories of unforgivable abuses committed by professional “deprogrammers”.
#2 by Read MacGuirtose on August 9, 2013 - 6:57 am
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So what part does Meg Foster play in this movie?
For what it’s worth, I was on a movie set last week with Meg Foster. (It was a low-budget independent sci-fi movie, although not, fortunately, a SyFy movie.) From what I saw of her, she seemed nice and down-to-earth, though I didn’t really interact directly with her significantly.
#3 by RogerBW on August 9, 2013 - 7:38 am
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Kim Cattrall was in this too, similarly before her career took off. (IMDb just credits them as “Ingrid” and “Ruthie”.)
The recruiting techniques — pick vulnerable people, isolate them, and so on — sound plausible enough. But the boundary between “cult” and “alternative religion” is a very fuzzy one, and plenty of mainstream religions and secular organisations (e.g. Amway) borrow cultish practices because they’re so effective
#4 by Greywizard on August 9, 2013 - 1:38 pm
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Meg Foster plays one of the leaders of the cult that Mancuso’s character gets brainwashed into.