But, through historical footage and interviews with contemporaries, including Ma Anand Sheela, the power-hungry secretary of the orange-clad guru, you will also be absorbed by chemical weapons and attempted murder, one of the biggest immigration fraud case in US history, and, of course, the mysterious and not-so-mysterious ways that a charismatic cult attracts and manipulates its followers. Will there be debaucherous orgies, long-haired drop-outs, preaching and chanting? Yes. Spoiler: the town’s old residents did not think much of it.

This ghost town with a handful of god-fearing inhabitants, soon became Rajneeshpuram, the cult’s new homestead, home to a thousand disciples, and the subject of nationwide media attention. You haven’t heard of Wasco Country? Nor had anybody else back then. I do know that after viewing the Omen and Revelations I was on my best behavior for several weeks afterward.Wild Wild Country follows the relocation of a hippie cult from India to Oregon in 1981. Seltzer creates an alternative Christian apocalypse however its plausibility is no less credible than the orthodox rendering. Massee has to be seen as Isaiah Haden words are not descriptive enough to convey the malevolence of his characterization. The performance by Michael Massee is stunning, truly scarier, for this viewer, than that of the great Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of Hannibal Lecter. Talented people doing good work, well worth watching. Also there is hope in each of these two productions. Seltzer finds the most potent images of evil and gets one on a roller-coaster ride that is mystery, detective story, theological and he amazes, thrills, terrifies.

What is it about David Seltzer that he can so touch the innermost bogeyman of Christian nightmares? The Omen, then Revelations! While Revelations is scary for anyone, of any religion or none at all, it is particularly so for Christians.

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