An idyllic marriage retreat turns terrifying when unsuspecting couples discover their charismatic hosts are Christian extremists recruiting for a modern-day Crusade.

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SYNOPSIS:

A womanizing mega-church minister and his wife are invited to the dry run weekend of Shiloh Waters, a new marriage retreat outside the high desert town of Burns, Oregon. When Christian beliefs clash, their marriage is exposed by their host, Pastor Brent Judah... a charismatic misogynist who believes the bible is to be taken literally... and quotes it to justify murdering them.

Other unsuspecting couples arrive – virgin honeymooners, church-scarred lesbian parents, fundamentalist filmmakers, a Marjorie Taylor-Green-ish congresswoman and her Christian talk radio hubby. Quickly, seminars turn bizarre. Husband-centric marriage through the subjugation of women. Kinky Christian Domestic Discipline. Shunning Pastor Brent’s appeal for devout Christians and soldiers for their crusade, the guests make their exits (also literally). In bible-style comeuppance, couples are knocked off while others have their bonds put to the test. The remaining survivors uncover the sinister truth: the staff are Pastor Brent’s polygamous family, hell-bent on forcibly converting believers.

Escaping violent dysfunction, the lesbian couple realizes the cult’s real target. Pastor Brent (clad in armor) and his family are launching a modern-day Crusade against the “heathen” Earth Day participants of Burns. The family slaughters Westboro Baptist-like protesters while locals are evacuated by the couple, whose beekeeper sons lure the cult into a stinging, fatal end. Pastor Brent is subdued, awakening in a confessional. As dual voices interrogate, he argues his murderous actions – his sincerely held beliefs – will turn the tide in a culture war: transform man’s laws and take back a “God First World”! As he marginalizes biblical women, Pastor Brent is killed. His murderers reveal as his own wife... and the womanizing minister’s secretary. United in woman-centric violent Christianity, they gaze out on the megachurch.