September Dawn
Starring: Terence Stamp, John Voight, Trent Ford, Jon GriesDirector: Christopher Cain
Year of Release: 2006
If this movie is true, the Mormons were some f*cked up, bloodthirsty motherf*ckers when they first started. This movie is about the Mountain Meadow Massacre that took place about 160 years ago in Utah. A wagon train from Arkansas was traveling through Utah on their way to California and stopped to rest by a Mormon town. Well, besides cursing everything that wasn’t Mormon, Brigham Young and his associates decided that this wagon train meant to kill him and all the Mormons. So they decided to kill them first and they sent their Mormon militia to massacre over 120 innocent men, women, and children. Of course it was all “by Jehovah’s command” and whatever. Eventually one Mormon man was convicted and executed for the massacre. But the Mormon’s still deny any involvement in it to this day, as the movie points out. Its pretty shocking to watch this religious zealotry allow such horrible violence, especially against little children. It’s an evil that men allow themselves to be capable of in the name of righteousness and “separating themselves from the damned.” Any so-called religion that preaches separation and exclusion is capable of the same thing.
Bottom Line: The movie is well-acted and I suspect pretty controversial. But its well done and worth a watch.
