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First and foremost I'd like to address those reviews/reviewers on this website showing their disappointment over this documentary for not being on the same level of 'The Vow.' If you watch this series expecting to get a thrill out of watching the downfall of a crazy cult, like it's some kinda horror movie or something, this is not for you. This is a serious documentary for people and, especially, for Kundalini practitioners to have an awareness of Yogi Bhajan's past and the scandals that surrounded him.

Kundalini Yoga is a type of Yoga being practiced all over the world, and has at least one physical center that can be found in almost every capital of the world. Not to mention some countries have at least one Kundalini Yoga center in every big city. Rome, Buenos Aires, Milan, Santiago, Barcelona, Paris, you name it. Given that there are literally millions of people practicing it, calling Kundalini Yoga a cult is a good way to belittle it and it's highly debatable. I mean, I guess you can call it a cult if the Catholic Church is a cult.

Yogi Bhajan was a person who taught in the US a series of teachings and practices he had learned from Sikhism in India. These practices are not something he just happened to come up with in his free time, but actually these practices were a series of real mantras, postures and work out routines that were originated in the 15th century by Ascended Yogi Masters, and that are meant to produce real benefits to people's lives and health. Had these practices not worked, Kundalini Yoga simply wouldn't have endured the test of time.

So this documentary is focused mostly on highlighting the erratic behavior of three gurus inside this religion. The founder, Yogi Bhajan, is being accused (20 years after his death) of sexually molesting women. Doesn't it seem completely unfair that these allegations are taking place in a time when the one who's being accused can't defend himself? The other guru Harijiwan was accused of telemarketing scam and the third one Guru Jagat (who died in 2021) was accused of mistreating people, not paying her employees well enough and mismanaging her money.

So these Gurus allegedly committed these crimes, but the law says innocent until proven guilty. This documentary shows only the telemarketing scam was taken to court, so it's very difficult to know whether the other allegations are true or not. There's not much proof out there (that these things happened) other than the testimonies of some people, mind you, in one cage, one of the yogis claiming that she was raped by Yogi Bhajan is still practicing and teaching Kundalini Yoga.

So biased is a good word to describe this series, as it deliberately misinforms the audience about what Kundalini Yoga is. But I'll tell you what it's not. It's not a series of nonsensical exercises invented by greedy Guru and it's not a cult.

Because everybody wants to know what all the big fuss is about, and god knows we humans love morbid subjects like Jeffrey Dammer and murder. But is this movie really worth of all the attention it's got?

Let's analyze this for a sec. Here we are with seemingly the most popular Horror movie that produced this year and yet it's no secret that what made it so popular is the level of explicit graphical violence and sadism that is featured in more than 50% of the movie. Scenes that show cruel and gruesome murders, graphical to the point of showing people screaming and suffering with their bleeding guts out of their bodies and their bones being ripped apart with a chainsaw by a sadist grinning clown. A clown chopping innocent children with an axe for no apartment reason. And apparently this is all this movie has to offer. The gore in this movie is so extreme, had it happened 30 years ago, this movie would have never seen the light of day. In movie theaters some people fainted and some vomited while watching this movie, makes you wonder, if this movie can make people physically ill, can you imagine what it can do to peoples psyche? Will this type of gore be considered the new standard for horror movies and if so what will horror movie directors do in the future in order to "push boundaries"? Where do we draw the line?

Anyway back to our subject. No, I don't think this movie deserves an Oscar, in fact, strip it of all the extreme gore and you get a movie with a plot so flat and boring it would be nothing but forgettable.