The Thuggee
The Cult: The Thuggee spend most of their time in a massive undergrou𒆙nd cave, devotiꦬng sweat, blood and tears to Kali, (the Hindu goddess of death).
Human sacrifice is part a♓nd parcel of your memb✅ership.
How To Join : It appears 🦩that you just need to be uncommonly evil.
An all-consuming hatred of children should hel💛p, too.
Real World Equivalent: The Thuggee cult actually eꦉxisted in India right up until the twentieth century, where the hooligans were mostly involved in robbing and murdering travellers. Th⛎oroughly unpleasant.
Summersisle #1
The Cult: The inhabitants of Summersisle are an odd bunch. Far removed from society, they have reverted back to the Pagan way of life, worshipping soil, goats,𓂃 wombs, that sort of thing.
Odd, but they do seem to have a lovely time.
How To Join: You need to be OK with walking around in the nip. And singing, there's lots of s🗹inging.
Whatever you do, don't mention Christianity.
Real World Equivalent: If the members of Castaway 2000 had been left on that island any longer, they'd probably've sacrificed Ben Fogle a long time ago.
Summersisle #2
The Cult: In the 2006 remake, Summersisle is inhabited by an extreme matriarchal society, whose practises don't seem to make much senseꦦ, even at the film's conclusion.
They are obsessed with bees, and house crows inside their furnitureﷺ. It's just⛦ stupid.
How To Join: You need to be female, and you need🅘 to float around looking pretty with a dreamy, vacant expression.
Real World Equivalent: It's pretty much just a rather🌠 extreme form of feminism. Bloody feminists.
The Neighbourhood Watch Alliance
The Cult: *Spoiler Alert!* A group of ওthe Sandford's most toffee-nosed fuddy-duddies join forces to make sur🌌e the village remains the nation's best.
Although they may serve scones and tea at meetings they also do stabbings and t𝄹hings.
How To Join: Ju🐓st make sure you keep your geraniums w⛦ell pruned and invest in a creepy hooded cloak. And a shotgun.
Real World Equivalent: It's likely that the NWA is inspired by the Freemasons, a secre🙈t organisation made up of the most influentia▨l members of society. They get things done.
The Hunters
The Cult: When their plane crashe🥀s on an island, a group of boys are left stranded. Without any grown-ups around, they form their own micro-societies.
Jack's band🦂 of hunters become obsessively preoccupied with the pursuit of wild pigs. They become murderous savages, painting their faces with mud and worshipping a hog's head.
How To Join: You have to be about 12, and filled with an insatiable bloodlust🐻.
Real World Equivalent: There aren't any known examples of child-only cults, but this could make a jolly good Shipwrecked special.
Crumb's Crunchy Delights
The Cult: An intergalactic fast-food company descend upon Earth. It turns out they want humans to be thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ❀ᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚeir dish of the day.
The aliens congregate in a big house where,✅ led by their leader Lord Crumb, they take some sort of ritual communion (vomit). It would be brainwashing if they didn't seem completely braindead anyway.
How To Join: It seems easy enough - Frank, from the The Astro Investigation and Defence Seꦑrvice (AIDS) managed to fit in well en♎ough, just by drinking the sick.
Real World Equivalent: It's an almost minute-for-minute reenactment of a Scientology meeting! Haha, that was a joke.
The Children
The Cult: When Isaac, a boy-preacher, arrives in the sleepy tow﷽n of Gatlin, Ne🌠braska, everything changes.
He leads all the children in the town to a violent rebellion against the adults, brutall꧋y murdering them with cleavꦺers and meat grinders.
All tꩵhat effort to keep the corn yield up. They must reall🐻y like corn. We'd probably just get some Green Giant.
How To Join: Like The Lord Of The Flies boys, there's an age limi♐t. And it's pr♏etty strict.
Real World Equivalent: We wouldn't put it past those kids down our road. They've got bricks in their pockets.
The Sisterhood
The Cult: It might be more of a coven , but we're pretty sure their parents w🎐ould call it a cult.
Four girls, all outsiders in high school, gꦕet together to explorꩲe the bonkers world of witchcraft.
They're pretty cultish: They're ri🌱tualistic, chanty, symbol-worshipping nutcases.
How To Join: Got to be a bit magic. And feel sorry for yourself a l👍ot.
Real World Equivalent: Goths (they wish).
The Jedi
The Cult: Jedi-ism is a tricky one. They have a temple, and they have an internal hierarchy. So it could be a religion - though its🌠 exclusivity suggests you've got to be "chosen". Sounds cult-ish to us.
How To Join: You've got to be pretty special. They don't just hand out thos🦋🐽e lightsabers willy-nilly.
Real World Equivalent: Well, if you count the fact that 0.8% of the British population classed themselves as Jedi in the 2001 census, there are more Jedi in the UK than ther🎶e are Sikhs, Jew, or Buddhists.
The Order
The Cult: A religious group who shelter in the abandoned church. They live in fear of "the demon", a🎐nd are no strꦕangers to ritual witch-burning and other nasty practises.
When Rose turns up with her daughter Sharon, the cult pounce upon the girl, claiming that she's the re-incarnation of another girl, or some poppycock ꦏl𒅌ike that.
How To Join: Move to Silent Hill and have a really terrible life💎.
Real World Equivalent: We've had worse e💛൩xperiences in Reading on a Saturday night.
The People of Skull Island
The Cult: It's little wonder the people of Sk෴ull Island are a bit loopy.
There are so many ludicrously big insects and apes (not to mention the dinosaurs) skulking aro☂und in the jungle they must be a little bit on edge.
They soldier on✱, though. They worship lovely Kong, and feed him people.
How To Join: You've got to 💦be comfortable with wearing tiny leaves to cover your bᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚits.
Real World Equivalent: Naturists. Although they're usually a peaceful people. Skull Islan🎃ders are mental.
Covington Village Folk
The Cult: *Another Spoiler Alert!*
The people of Covington village are used to the simpler ways of life. But, as with any♊ cult, there's a fair amount of brainwashing going on - not to mention🌳 the crazy cloak-wearing and scare-mongering.
How To Join: You've got to be born into this one, really. Unless you're really crazy and just want to join in for a laugh.
Real World Equivalent: The Amish, probably, for their reluctance to conform to the trappings of technology and the modern way of life. At least most Covington folk have never even heard of KFC, so there's nothing to crave.
The Vampires
The Cult: Another grey-area. OK, so, they're vampires. They have lit𒅌tle choicꦚe but to hang out together and do weird stuff.
But they are also pretty cult-ish. They've got the authoritarian, charismatic leader (Kiefer Sutherland's David). They're extremist and ritualistic. And once you're in their gang,🍨 it's a bitch to get out of.
How To Join: Drink some blood and you're sorted.
Real World Equivalent: They're a bit like the Manson familﷺy, though not as evil, and less girly.
The Lisbon Sisters
The Cult: Possibly the most exclusive of all the movie cults, the𝓰 Lisbon sisters are a really, really creepy one.
Cut off from civilisation, they form their own fantasy world, living an eerie, dreamy existence. The inexplicable suicide pact is the icing o𝄹n the cake.
How To Join: You💦 have to be female. And a Lisbon. We doub✅t you're eligible.
Real World Equivalent: The Nolan sisters are pretty creepy. It's those dead, soulless eyes. Their new album's out now!
The Bright And Shiny Cult
The Cult: When Jake Gyllenhaal's Jimmy runs away in a giant bubble (he has his reas🎃ons),﷽ he comes across the Bright and Shiny bus.
They live an existence w🐽here all the girls are called Lorraine, and all the boys, Todd. They play tamborines and are freakishly happy, all the time. We'd join, if they weren't so effin' annoying.
How To Join: Put your hair in bu🐠nches and get your teeth whitened.
Real World Equivalent: They're isanely happy - a bit like Mormons, if Mormons travelled around in a bus and ate nothing but sherbert dips.
The cult-tastic Horsemen is released exclusively on DVD and Blu-ray on 19th October.
