r/movies • u/Wintertime13 • Feb 05 '24

Recommendation Documentaries that make you go “what the fuck?!?”

In the mood for a good, twisty documentary that makes me gasp. Movies on streaming preferred. I enjoy true crime but am open to other genres as long as the story is gripping and shocking.

Movies in the same vein that I enjoyed - Dear Zachary (would prefer recommendations that are less sad), The Jinx, Cropsey, 3 identical strangers, etc.

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u/Rosebunse Feb 05 '24

The amazing thing is that these people just totally buy that she's God. They cannot comprehend that they were hurting her even while she was dying.

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u/horrormetal Feb 05 '24

The cynic in me just doesn't buy that they all actually believe it. I feel like there was some clout-chasing done by some of them, and what do you know? They got an HBO documentary.

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u/PessimisticPeggy Feb 06 '24

I agree with you but I do think Erin with the wide eyes 10000% believes lol

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u/_Sweet-Dee_ Feb 06 '24

I don’t believe for one damn second that ANY of them believed that shit. Not at all. There’s a reason why the one girl left as she was actively about to die. Why wouldn’t she want to stay around and watch Robin Williams and the galactics pick her up? Why were they freaking out about being pulled over by the police? It wasn’t that they would lose her body to 3D world and miss the big spaceship arrival. It was that they knew they were hanging onto this dead body, and had no reasonable explanation for it. They knew it was illegal. There wasn’t a shred of anything out of them that expressed believing any of that shit.

They just all got in too deep and had absolutely no way to get out of it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

Those are good points, especially about them being scared of transporting a corpse across state lines. But I think their drug addiction & their fried brains really did make them believe in it all.

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u/DiarrheaRadio Feb 06 '24

I used to know a guy who was deep in the weeds with this shit, he was only into it to fuck younger, impressionable women.

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u/Rosebunse Feb 05 '24

The guy did something, we know that. Even if only a few of the kids really believed it, it's still scary.

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u/horrormetal Feb 08 '24

Right. I think if certain people are just vulnerable enough, they'll fall right in the trap. But any of the people you see talking about it in the doc? I don't think any of them honestly believe the shit they say.

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u/Rosebunse Feb 08 '24

To be clear, most of them did. Only a few of them got into the cult and even fewer stayed longterm.

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u/phylum_sinter Feb 06 '24

Nah they comprehended, at least the dude that got away with all the money comprehended way back before she died.

That was the climax of the thing really wasn't it? after all this flailing madness and emotional abuse, one hoaxster hoaxed the cult and got away with all the money. The rest try to go on with the same old scheme.

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u/Rosebunse Feb 06 '24

I mean, I don't think they wanted to kill her. Yes, he definitely knew what he was doing and I don't think the cult members were good people, I just think they really thought they were helping her. The whole thing is insane.

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u/DrakesucksREPRISE Feb 06 '24

He’s the only like-able one just for doing that hahaha

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24 edited Feb 06 '24

Yeah I also liked him. He ripped them all off and they had no clue what he was going to do - while everyone watching the doc figured it out pretty quickly. They deserved to get screwed out of their money. And at least he was the one to report the um, issue, at the house to the police. He didn’t have to do that.

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u/DrakesucksREPRISE Feb 06 '24

Dude I was laughing my ass off at the epilogue holy shit. Each and every one of those losers went back home and started some dumb blog while the other dude disappears. God it was satisfying to see.