Arise! SubGenius Recruitment Film #16

Arise! SubGenius Recruitment Film #16

Your kind shall triumph!

1992 · 80 min · ★ 6.2 · Documentary, Comedy

A brain-crushing collage of music and video presented in the form of a religious recruitment video. The topics covered (in deadpan narration) are basic psychology, the origin of the human race, spiritualism, religious dogma, UFO's, the end of the world, and the group's figurehead, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.

Directed by Cordt Holland · Written by Paul Mavrides

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