The Angulo kids were forced to stay inside their Lower East Side apartment in New York their entire childhood thanks to their Peruvian father's paranoia against the world.
The new "The Wolfpack" documentary trailer shows just how they broke away from their sheltered life and how their dad's movie collection somehow became their lifeline.
According to NPR, director Crystal Moselle bumped into the six Angulo boys who were wearing dark sunglasses and waist-length black hair on First Avenue and she was intrigued by them.
Mukunda, Bhagavan, Govinda, Narayana, Krsna and Jagadisa's decision to step out of the house was an act of rebellion from their father who kept them hidden from society and the dangers within it.
The Wall Street Journal reported that their father, Oscar, a Hare Krishna follower, "wanted a tribe of children, all with long hair and names from Hindu scriptures."
They were homeschooled by their mother, Susanne, while their paranoid father "instilled a fear of anything outside their walls, warning that the streets were filled with drugs, violence and other dangers."
"It's not like they were chained," Moselle shared to Wall Street Journal. "They were just not socializing with the outside world. They didn't leave the house because they were scared."
With this fear instilled in them, they sometimes spent months at home with just their father's collection of movies as their only form of entertainment. In "The Wolfpack" documentary trailer, the Angulo brothers can be seen re-enacting scenes and making their own props. The movies, in a way, saved their lives.
The article also pointed out that the boys were briefly sent to therapy after Mukunda went out by himself for the first time when he was 15. He was picked up by police and hospitalized for about a week.
Though they "sneered" at their time in therapy, they presumably became more sociable.
The boys, who are now aged 20 to 23, are reportedly more "confident, forward-looking young men".
The documentary reportedly won the Docu Grand Jury prize during this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Watch "The Wolfpack" documentary trailer here.
