Faults

Faults (2014)

Sects, cults, and mind control.

Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.

Date of release
2014-03-06
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (267)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Director
Riley Stearns

Casting

Interesting facts

Faults is a 2014 dark comedy psychological thriller film written and directed by Riley Stearns in his feature film debut. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Leland Orser, Jon Gries, Beth Grant, Chris Ellis and Lance Reddick. The film premiered at the 2014 SXSW on March 9, 2014, and was picked up by Screen Media Films for theatrical release on March 6, 2015.

Production

Stearns came up with the idea by being inspired and fascinated with the process of deprogramming that was introduced by Ted Patrick in mid-to-late 1970s. He also stated that the interest came when he watched an episode of Cops when he was a child, in which "a girl called the police and was like, 'I'm locked in this hotel room and they're not letting me out.' […] and the cops told her that her parents knew what was best and that she had to stay.

Stearns cited Paul Thomas Anderson's works, namely Punch-Drunk Love, The Coen Brothers' Fargo, Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth and Alps among the many works he was inspired by.

To prepare themselves for their roles, Winstead and Orser read the book Let Our Children Go by Ted Patrick and watched YouTube videos from that era of people in cults or people who had just gotten out of cults. They had both also created their own backstories for their characters based on Stearns' script. Winstead has repeatedly mentioned that Claire is her most challenging role to date.

The film was shot in 18 days in the Los Angeles area (Long Beach and San Pedro).

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