Taika Waititi stars as cult leader in new movie 'Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss'

A new trailer for the film Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss features New Zealand Oscar-winning director and actor Taika Waititi as a suicide cult leader.

The dark comedy's trailer focuses on a couple who take a chance on a new home with outrageously low rent.

However, what they didn't know was that its former occupant was a cult leader, Storsh, who instructed deluded followers to break into the couple's new home and to ceremoniously sacrifice themselves in their bathtub.

The followers, who all bear a red spiral on their foreheads, also known as the mark of the Cult of Storsh, believe the couple's "magical" bathtub will help them achieve eternal bliss in the afterlife, as their leader did.

After many break-ins, the couple learn about Storsh's teachings and believe their destiny is to help his followers to "self-murder".

This film showcases the best comedic talent in Hollywood, including stars Kate Micucci, Sam Huntington, Dan Harmon, Rhea Seehorn, Mark McKinney, Brian Posehn, Maria Bamford, Josh Brener, Mindy Sterling, Dana Gould, and more.

This article was first published on nzherald.co.nz and is republished here with permission