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The Cult Next Door

Vanessa Engle

2017

  • Documentary
6.0

In 2013, three women emerged from a flat in Brixton. They had been held there for decades by Aravindan Balakrishnan, a revolutionary Maoist who controlled the women with brainwashing techniques and tales of a sinister, world-controlling machine he called 'Jackie'.

Cast & crew

  • Vanessa EngleDirector
  • Aravindan Balakrishnancult leader
  • Chanda Balakrishnan
  • Yvonne Hall
  • Aisha WahabVictim
  • Peter ClementProsecutor
  • Paul Flewers
  • Rosie Morgan-Davies
  • Josephine HerivelVictim

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