He also traveled to places like Disney World, rode motorcycles and spent money in a way that he would have condemned from the pulpit. Jeffs preached about the evils of materialism, but amassed a fortune of more than $100 million by urging FLDS members to max out their credit cards and liquidate their worldly assets, handing over the cash to him and his church. There was also an impressive amount of hypocrisy when it came to how the prophet conducted his personal life. “The only way people wake up is when they get excommunicated and can start rebuilding their lives,” said Berg.
From his cell, he continues to correspond with his followers, issuing apocalyptic warnings of imminent natural disasters. Though Jeffs is imprisoned, there are many children still living in dangerous conditions, and Berg has her doubts that many members of the cult will be able to shake off their leader’s influence. The film follows Warren Jeffs, the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, who is now running the religion from the confines of the Texas state prison, serving out a life sentence, for the rape of young girls. “Once you start meeting people he has influenced it makes more sense. Prophet's Prey is a 2015 American documentary directed and written by Amy J. “Prophet’s Prey” contains recordings of his sermons and reflections, and he is a drab, almost colorless figure, with little vocal fire or personal magnetism. Features interviews with Church insiders and victims.
In some respects, Jeffs is an unlikely messianic figure. Prophet's Prey Documentary revealing the shocking life of notorious cult leader Warren Jeffs, and the FLDS Church, who through brainwashing and abuse seized control of his followers' lives. It’s really a deranged man using this and other things to explore his sick fantasies.” There was no preference between boys or girls or in terms of age…It’s not pedophilia or being a sexual predator in the typical sense. Jeffs married underage women and assaulted boys and girls in his flock, but his predilections may have emerged from a different place than the priests who rocked the Catholic Church at its foundation. It was Krakauer who helped tap Berg, the Oscar-nominated documentarian behind “Deliver Us From Evil,” a searing look at the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal, to delve into another story of innocence abused.
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