IDIOCRACY: The Teenage Virgin Exorcists

 

VICE: Sick of taking responsibility for the shitty things that have happened to you in your life? Help is on the way, in the virginal and strangely vacant form of three Bible-thumping teenage exorcists from Phoenix, Arizona. Eighteen-year-old Brynne Larson and her friends Tess and Savannah Sherkenback (18 and 21, respectively) claim to be able to confront the demons lurking inside traumatized people and draw them out using nothing more than a crucifix and a few choice words. But are these teenage exorcists really empowered by the Almighty, or merely by Brynne’s father, a failed televangelist named Reverend Bob? In our new film, the girls and Reverend Bob give us exclusive access to their tour of Ukraine, during which they attempt to save the souls of recovering drug addicts and exorcise people’s “sexually transmitted demons.” MORE

RELATED: Reverend Bob Larson (born May 28, 1944) is an American radio and television evangelist, currently based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Larson has authored numerous books on the subjects of rock music and Satanism, written from a Christian perspective.Larson was born in Westwood, California, the son of Viola (née Baum) and Earl Larson.[2][3] He was raised in McCook, Nebraska. Larson plays guitar; he has claimed his early experiences as a musician led to his concerns about occult and destructive influences in rock music.[4] He would later incorporate his guitar playing into some of his sermons. In the 1960s, the focus of Larson’s preaching centered mainly on the leftist political ideology, sexually suggestive lyrics, Eastern religious mysticism, and antisocial behavior of many of the era’s rock musicians. In 2013 Vice magazine taped a video of Larson’s visit in several small towns in Ukrane where he performed exorcisms together with three teenage girls – his 18-years-old daughter Brynne Larson and her friends Tess and Savannah Sherkenback (18 and 21 respectively, all known as The Teenage Exorcists). The Teenage Exorcists consequently published a reply to Vice Media’s video stating that they “question the journalistic integrity of this Vice Media story and are disappointed by how we were falsely portrayed.” MORE