The Trinity Assembly of God Church in Texas has created it's own alternative to the haunted house of dishevelled fair grounds. ‘The Hell House', a comparatively lavish production of horrors, but crucially, ones here on earth; abortions, AIDS, drugs, rape. Everything gets the faithful's naïve but graphic interpretation. Ratliff's documentary is an admirably unbiased look at an agonisingly myopic and intolerant world view, but his skill as an observer leaves you almost as sympathetic for the prota
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SHOOTING DOGS (2005)
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1994, 800,000 killed in 100 days, a Catholic priest and an idealistic young English teacher are caught, both literally and morally, in the midst of the horror. How can they help the thousands of refugees who flee to their school, where the pathetic (Belgian) UN troops are billetted, in the hope of surviving the bloodthirsty Hutu mobs engaged in the wholesale massacre of the Tutsi minority? Like Hotel Rwanda this is a fully engaging and emotionally disturbing account of the horrors that humans ca
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