The Wolfpack Brothers

 

The Angulo brothers—Bhagavan, Govinda, Narayana, Mukunda, Krisna (Glenn), and Jagadesh (Eddie), along with their sister Visnu—are the subjects of the 2015 documentary The Wolfpack.

Key Facts

• The Isolation: Their paranoid father, Oscar Angulo, kept them locked inside a four-bedroom apartment in the Lower East Side of Manhattan for 14 years, holding the only key to the front door.

• Coping Mechanism: To process the outside world, the brothers obsessively watched and re-enacted thousands of movies (such as The Godfather and Pulp Fiction) using elaborate homemade props and costumes.

• The Discovery: First-time filmmaker Crystal Moselle discovered the brothers on First Avenue in Manhattan in 2010 while they were walking outside wearing homemade Batman masks.

• Aftermath: Following the film's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize, the brothers began integrating into society, finding jobs, and living independently.

On Reddit, there is a consensus among users and the brothers themselves that the filming process felt natural and organic because they helped operate part of the camera crew.