At least two couples are trying to get their daughters back from what they’re calling a SEX CULT run by R. KELLY.  Buzzfeed talked to those parents and some former members of Kelly’s inner circle for a disturbing expose.

Kelly supposedly has six women living in rented properties in Chicago and Atlanta, and he controls EVERYTHING, including, quote, “what they eat, how they dress, when they bathe, when they sleep, and how they engage in sexual encounters that he records.”

They also need his permission to contact anyone but him, and he restricts their social media activity.  Oh, and he makes them call him “Daddy”.

I know what you’re thinking, and surprisingly, none of these girls is underage.  Although several had just hit the legal age of consent when he “recruited” them . . . in some cases 16 and 17.  He lured several in by promising to help their music careers.

Kelly’s former assistant says, quote, “You have to ask for food.  You have to ask to go use the bathroom . . . [Kelly] is a master at mind control . . . He is a puppet master.”

One way he keeps them in line is through PHYSICAL ABUSE.  For instance, he once allegedly slapped one of the women outside a Subway because she was too friendly with the male cashier.

Another woman was bent over and spanked because she laughed at a cab driver’s joke.

Kelly also uses verbal and emotional abuse to keep the women in line.  He basically cuts them off from their families, and when other men are around, he makes them wear tracksuits and face the wall, so the guys won’t look at them.  Which is stupid, because Kelly allegedly shows all his guy friends the tapes he makes of himself having sex with these women.

Now, some of these women’s families have asked police to check up on them, and they always say they WANT to be with Kelly.  Plus, they’re not minors, so they can’t be forced to leave him.  One of these women actually spoke to TMZ yesterday and said she’s right where she wants to be.  But she did seem a little evasive.

But if you know Kelly’s history, it wouldn’t be the least bit surprising if it were all true.  In 2008, he was tried for a videotape that allegedly showed him having sex with a 14-year-old girl.  He was acquitted on all charges.

But there have been a dozen or more civil lawsuits filed against him for allegedly pursuing sexual relationships with underage girls.  He settled all of those with cash payments . . . after the girls signed nondisclosure agreements.

And in 1994, he married AALIYAH . . . who was 15 at the time.  The marriage was annulled.

Kelly’s attorney is denying all of these new allegations, of course.  And he says, quote, “We can only wonder why folks would persist in defaming a great artist who loves his fans, works 24/7, and takes care of all of the people in his life.”

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Legendary horror movie director GEORGE A. ROMERO died in his sleep yesterday . . . after a, quote, “brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer.”  He was 77.

He reportedly passed while listening to the score of “The Quiet Man” from 1952, which was one of his favorite movies.  He was surrounded by family.

George was most famous for his zombie apocalypse movies . . . beginning with “Night of the Living Dead“ in 1968.  He also did “Dawn of the Dead” in ’78, “Day of the Dead” in ’85, and later “Land of the Dead”, “Diary of the Dead”, and “Survival of the Dead”.

Some of his other movies include:  “The Crazies” in 1973, “Martin” in 1978, “Creepshow” in 1982, “Monkey Shines” in 1988, and “The Dark Half” in 1993.

Director Eli Roth Tweeted, quote, “It’s hard to quantify how much he inspired me and what he did for cinema . . . he used genre to confront racism 50 years ago.  He always had diverse casts, with Duane Jones as the heroic star of ‘Night of the Living Dead’.

“You can trace a direct line from ‘Night of the Living Dead’ to ‘Get Out’.  And . . . Romero CREATED the modern zombie.  The infectious bite . . . shoot the head . . . everything.”