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Prophet's Prey

2015

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1 hr 41 min
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Reviewed by brett-762608 / 10

Some crazy lunatics out there...

All I can say is if you hurt kids or take away their childhood, you have no place in society. This guy is a complete nut job inside and out... how many lives has he destroyed is the big question. Yeah sorry bruh any religious beliefs that say you need to marry kids doesn't come from God. Jail is still to good for this guy crikey... documentary is good and worth watching but it's gonna piss you off a bit so get ready for that... NUT JOB is all I'm gonna say but give it a watch and you judge for yourself. Crikey.

Reviewed by jadavix9 / 10

Highly recommended

"Prophet's Prey" is a riveting, disturbing documentary about systemic abuse in an FLDS - Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints - organization.

Using interviews with people involved in the church and those who saw it from the outside, the documentary makes a case against Warren Jeffs, the "prophet" who headed his church in a compound away from the world's eyes - a distance that allowed him to take many young girls as wives.

We hear from victims both male and female, and the private detective who became obsessed with seeing Jeffs behind bars. There is a particularly disturbing recording of Jeffs' voice as he speaks to a young girl, presumably during or after a rape. Jeffs is heard intoning Bible verse with his alien, emotionless voice, that becomes all too familiar by the movie's end: this voice, and his adeptness with scripture, are the two weapons he uses in keeping people at bay so that he can carry out his molestation. The voice must sound to the flock like the voice of God when it comes over a loudspeaker; to us it is the voice of a psychopath.

Jeffs was jailed for life, but he is still leading the church from his cell, and the movie's ending makes you wonder how many more like him there are out there. While it is immensely vindicating to see the man locked up, the movie paints the picture of a much larger problem.

It's disturbing viewing, but compulsively watchable, and highly recommended.

Reviewed by billcr127 / 10

Creepy

If you come to this film with a negative view of religion, Prophet's Prey will only reinforce those feelings. Personally, as a retired Catholic, I am mystified by theologies of every kind. Here we begin with a brief history of the mainstream Mormon church, as Joseph Smith discovers golden plates in upstate New York; close to my home turf, by the way, and Joey, with the help of a magical peep stone, translates an unknown ancient language into modern English. This work eventually becomes famous as the book of Mormon. Within a short time, one of Smith's visions has the lord requiring polygamy, specifically at least three wives to enter the celestial kingdom, or highest level of heaven. After Joseph's death, the church is taken over by Brigham Young who also has many wives(30 to 40). The U.S. government forces the church to renounce polygamy and this leads to a schism with the(FLDS) reformed church of latter day saints splitting from the LDS. And now to the present day and subject of the movie, Warren Jeffs. He is the son of Rulon Jeffs, the leader of the FLDS. Father and son both have many wives and children, including teenage girls. They dress in pioneer dresses and are sort of Amish looking. The men turn over most of their money to the church and the women are basically baby factories. Warren Jeffs finally is arrested and convicted of performing weddings of underage girls in Utah. After some legal wrangling, the state of Texas gets a hold of his sorry ass and convicts him of marrying a twelve year-old girl. The interviews are good and the shots of Jeffs in prison refusing to answer questions, are downright creepy. Tapes of his lectures to the flock are played throughout and he has the charisma of a tiny insect. Jon Krakauer is a co-writer and appears on camera trying to explain Jeff's power over so many people. He can't figure it out and neither can I. Prophet's Prey is worth your while.

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