Let's Start a Cult

Let's Start a Cult (2024)

Having missed out on his cult's long awaited ritual suicide, an obnoxious loser teams up with his bogus ex-messiah to rebuild their doomsday commune. Traveling together through middle America, the constantly-bickering duo induct a military wannabe, a mentally unstable mom, and a mysterious foreign hitchhiker into their cult... but will this family of outcasts fulfill their transcendent destiny, or decide this life might be worth living after all?

Date of release
2024-10-25
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (31)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Ben Kitnick

Casting

Interesting facts

Let's Start A Cult is a 2024 comedy film directed by Ben Kitnick and co-written by Kitnick, Stavros Halkias, and Wes Haney. Halkias and Haney star in the film along with Katy Fullan, Eric Rahill, and Daniel Simonsen.

Production

Director and co-writer Ben Kitnick had the initial idea for the film's story and wrote it as a short film that he brought to comedian Stavros Halkias. Kitnick wrote and directed the short version Exit Statement in 2019, which served as the basis for the movie. Halkias and Kitnick expanded the short to feature-length, co-writing the script with comedian Wes Haney over the course of six months-to-a-year.

Let's Start A Cult was filmed in three weeks under its original title, Exit Statement, in the summer of 2023. Stavros Halkias mentioned its budget being below a million dollars.

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