What do you think makes a cult leader "convincing" in a movie—is it their , or the weakness of their followers?
The most literal interpretation of an “evil cult movie” involves films depicting organized, supernatural evil. The archetype here is Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man (1973). The film inverts the formula: the “cult” (the pagan community of Summerisle) is not hidden but omnipresent, while the protagonist (Sergeant Howie, a devout Christian) is the isolated outsider. The film’s “evil” is not found in gore but in its radical moral relativism. Summerisle’s rituals—Maypole dancing, fornication, and the final human sacrifice—are depicted as organic, even beautiful, yet their goal is the brutal death of a “righteous” man. evil cult movie
To understand the scope of the genre, we have to look at the different flavors of cult horror. What do you think makes a cult leader