Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove

This boring documentary purports to reveal Satanic rituals of the Rich and Famous in a California redwood glen. This Bohemian Grove get together has been occurring for almost 130 years and reflects secret society booze fests similar to the Masons, Skull and Bones, and service clubs. A time for men to behave badly out of sight of the paparazzi.

The goofiness is harmless and maybe fun for the participants. The narration couldn't be more uninteresting. The quality of the jiggly camera work requires Dramamine to survive.

The narrator's analysis is unbelievably paranoid.

What a mess. Makes you feel sympathy for the devils that are conspiring to take over the universe.

Pretty good documentary especially since it is from 2000. Alex gives some good history on it and I love when he shows proof of the existence over time via newspapers and other media writings. So there's no debate about it being real or not. A lot of Republican and democrats attend. Pretty interesting no? Almost like the political parties mean nothing in the end. I wonder if this get together still happens though? I don't hear anything about it anymore. I wouldn't be surprised if they have morphed into something else, just the builderberg group. Anyways, the only reason I give it a 9 is due to the quality. He coulda splurged a bit more and got better quality cameras, even back then. Oh well. Still exposes the hypocrisy of the politicians claiming to be "Christians" or "godly" but watching occult stuff and cheering.

Most o the reviews here have 0 arguments of why this film isn't good or true , and try to either sell on atheist agenda ( i guess lack of education and iq) , or try to discredit the truth.

I guess it is very easy to notice -the topic of this film is true, based on being on earth for the last 2 years, and people which does not want to see it - well what to expect of people in 21. Century - they mostly are sorry excuse for men.

Perhaps the most religious zealots, might buy the claim of Satanism and mock human sacrifice, but no one else.

Entertaining and at times embarrassingly poor at others, even the most uneducated will spot the lack of logic and the leaps of abstraction.

Clearly this exclusive club does have distinguished visitors, they openly have a mock ritual, the link of the mock ritual to paganism is tenuous at best and to human sacrifice almost non existent. The ceremony itself had more in common with a modern day theme park than any Pagan rite.

This "documentary" tells us nothing of Paganism, an ancient faith based around nature worship. Instead it attempts to demonise what I imagine is otherwise a very successful business selling expensive "retreats" to the top Men in America.

All it did was to convince me that Alex Jones is a self serving publicist out to make a name for himself by attempting to create stories where clearly there is none. Looking at the credits it appears there was no one other than Alex Jones involved in the film, certainly had there been, they would have pointed out the lack of credibility of his claims and suggested that he not waste his time and ours on the venture.

The film does remind us how individuals can try to distort the truth, it also shows us how easily some people can accept a distorted truth (some people believed the film totally and gave it a 10) Hype and sensationalism are great for fiction, but when we confuse them in news and documentaries it is quite damaging. Good film if only for reminding us to question things more.

I think Alex Jones should be given a little more respect. He risks his life every single day to try and help expose what seems to be true. After watching many other films based around similar subjects, the facts seem undeniable. His courage in breaking into such a heavily guarded and dangerous place is totally impressive. What you see in the documentary is fitting with everything else that you'll find out if you start to research just a little into these things. Please, look at what's happening. People are waking up and Alex Jones is in no way a fatalist, as someone has said on one of these IMDb reviews. He reminds us what power each and everyone of us has and how much change we can effect.

Oh and just to remind people that Charlie Sheen has now come out (and joined former members of the Bush Administration, the former German defence minister and hundreds of other physicists, engineers, firemen and victims families) and said that he believes that 9/11 needs to be re-investigated and that we all need to look at the facts and see that the official story is just that - a story.

Thank You, JJH