CHILDREN OF SORROW is another indie horror, but at least this one is a bit different from most out there. The setting is the headquarters of a deranged cult leader, played by genre favourite Bill Oberst Jr. A girl has gone missing and her sister wants answers. It's pretty predictable stuff but at least it focuses on acting rather than bloodshed throughout, although there are some unpleasant 'torture porn' moments here and there. Oberst Jr. lets it all hang out in a typically provocative performance.

Ellen (Hannah Levien) gets a letter from her sister Janet who has joined a cult in in the Mexican desert. She opts to join up with Simon Leach's (Bill Oberst Jr.) group. We know from the opening filming the man is a phony. The most comical thing is his generic "Certificate of Achievement" he has proudly framed and hung on his wall dating back to the 1990's. "Holy Ghost People" has a similar plot and is the better of the two films.

I will say, I liked the acting and even some of the characters. In fact the film went no where for a long time as we watched people wash clothes and play kickball leading up to their "transition moment" made boring by the hand held genre. When our gang wasn't engaged in boring activities, they gave equally boring interviews about their life to fill all 88 minutes.

Not recommended, even as a rental.

Parental Guide: F-bomb, groping, brief male nudity (Bill Oberst Jr.)

Sickly, it would work better if it weren't in the found footage format, but back in 2012, it was the peak, it must have worked, in the style of a denunciation film, the deaths work well, the introduction is even pleasant, the outcome is great, and it criticizes the sects and / or people with a gift of oratory and high power of persuasion vs the psychological fragility of young people... Sick...