Rating
6.8/10
Release Date
September 30, 2021
Runtime
0h 47m
Genres
Documentary
The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin
The fallout of faith
Overview
Explore how the late Gwen Shamblin Lara, who founded the controversial Remnant Fellowship Church and created the Christian weight loss program The Weigh Down Workshop, rose to fame as a diet guru and church leader.
Cast
Gwen Shamblin Lara
Self (archive footage)
Joe Lara
Self (archive footage)
Natasha Pavlovich
Self - Former Girlfriend of Joe Lara
Megan Cox
Self - Member 1996-2006
Helen Byrd
Self - Member 2008-2017
Rafael Martinez
Self - Cult Interventionist
Gina Wilson
Self - Member 1996-2012
Rachel Phillips
Self - Member 2002-2009
Similar TV Shows
7.0
Children of the Underground
2022
7.5
Making Manson
2024
6.9
Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God
2023
0.0
Obese: A Year to Save My Life
2012
6.8
Demons & Saviors
2023
8.2
Mayday
2003
8.0
People Magazine Investigates: Cults
2018
7.9
Darker Passages
2023
7.3
Born in Synanon
2023
7.1
The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard
2024
6.6
A Sinister Sect: Colonia Dignidad
2021
5.0
19 Kids and Counting
2008
8.7
Finding Yeezus
2022
0.0
Michael Mosley's Science of You
2011
8.0
The Witnesses
2020
6.9
Tiger King
2020
7.2
Revelation
2020
6.5
Children of the Cult
2021
5.4
Daughters of the Cult
2024
6.6
The Synanon Fix: Did the Cure Become a Cult?
2024