Believers (2007)

Humor: 1
Blood: 1, a gunshot wound to the shoulder
Nudity: 2 dudes butts and Rebecca’s rockets
Minutes FF’ed thru: 0
Overall rating: 3
Memorable Quotes:
“The Teacher wants to speak with you in the White Room. What’s the White Room? That’s where we go to learn the truth.”

Believers should not be confused with The Believer, an anti-semetic movie, or The Believers (1987), with Martin Sheen. This is a movie about a cult called the Quanta Group who are preparing for their departure from this life to the next.

Two paramedics, Victor and David, respond to a call about a woman who has collapsed. On the scene, they find Rebecca, who is unresponsive, and her kid, Libby. They open Rebecca’s shirt to give her air, and see an unexplainable tattoo. A group of gun-toting cultsmen arrive, and take the woman and medics to the group’s compound. There, they are quarantined, and imprisoned in the “Reflection Room,” a set of run-down bathroom stalls. Yeah, that’s where I often reflect too. :)

The cult members believe that The Teacher will help guide them to a better place, and as they’ve been preparing for years, the final day is upon them.

Rebecca is brought back to life (by the Teacher), and then seduces Victor into believing that The Formula, which is tattooed all over her body, is the truth and their path out of this world.

David manages to escape, but is then caught and brought back to the facility, where he’s bound to a table, “purged,” and left for dead. The cult members and their children are gathered up and taken to the room where the great ascension will commence. There, they will fall asleep by inhaling a toxin and depart to the next life.

David manages to break free from his restraints and opens the door to the gas chamber. He frees Libby, but Vic's unable to be swayed, and shuts the door again. David and his wife take Libby into their care until Rebecca is able to recover. On the morning of David’s first day back to work, they hear a commotion and walk outside. To their disbelief, they see fire raining from the sky, a prophecy which The Teacher had spoken of. David’s facial expression is, “No F-ing way!” and this is the end of the movie.

Hats off to the director for making a much better movie than his first, The Blair Witch Project. If you like movies about cults, you’ll probably enjoy this, but then go rent Helter Skelter and see it done Charlie Manson style.