‘Satan Wants You’ SXSW Review – Compelling Documentary Chronicles Destructive Roots of Satanic Panic
The early ’80s Satanic Panic phenomenon frequently spills over into horror thanks to the wave’s systematic targeting of the genre and heavy metal. Recent horror comedies or even the latest “Stranger Things” season highlight the absurdity of moral panic mania founded in baseless claims of Satanic ritual abuse. Documentary Satan Wants You chronicles one of the prominent causes of Satanic Panic, resulting in a compelling mystery unsettling for its overarching reach.
The 1980 novel Michelle Remembers is attributed as a harbinger of Satanic Panic. Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his long-term patient and eventual wife Michelle Smith coauthored the book, detailing therapy sessions that uncovered repressed memories of lurid Satanic rituals and abuse Smith endured. The book became a bestseller, bolstered by daytime TV, and spread the idea that Satanists could be everywhere (including your neighborhood) like wildfire and doused gasoline on moral panic.
Directors Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams...
The 1980 novel Michelle Remembers is attributed as a harbinger of Satanic Panic. Canadian psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his long-term patient and eventual wife Michelle Smith coauthored the book, detailing therapy sessions that uncovered repressed memories of lurid Satanic rituals and abuse Smith endured. The book became a bestseller, bolstered by daytime TV, and spread the idea that Satanists could be everywhere (including your neighborhood) like wildfire and doused gasoline on moral panic.
Directors Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams...
- 3/12/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Premiering at SXSW, Satan Wants You is a new documentary from directors Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams that’s set to explore the infamous “Satanic Panic” wave of the 1980s.
Satan Wants You tells the untold story of how the Satanic Panic of the 1980s was ignited by “Michelle Remembers,” a lurid memoir by psychiatrist Larry Pazder and his patient Michelle Smith. Supported by the Catholic Church, the bestselling book relied on recovered-memory therapy to uncover Michelle’s childhood abduction by baby-stealing Satanists.
Amplified by law enforcement and America’s Daytime TV boom, satanic rumors spread through panic-stricken communities across the world, leaving a wave of destruction and wrongful convictions in their wake. This film digs deep into the roots of moral panics and cult conspiracies, showing how these events still affect and distort our reality today.
Watch the official trailer below and expect Bloody Disgusting’s review very soon.
Satan Wants You tells the untold story of how the Satanic Panic of the 1980s was ignited by “Michelle Remembers,” a lurid memoir by psychiatrist Larry Pazder and his patient Michelle Smith. Supported by the Catholic Church, the bestselling book relied on recovered-memory therapy to uncover Michelle’s childhood abduction by baby-stealing Satanists.
Amplified by law enforcement and America’s Daytime TV boom, satanic rumors spread through panic-stricken communities across the world, leaving a wave of destruction and wrongful convictions in their wake. This film digs deep into the roots of moral panics and cult conspiracies, showing how these events still affect and distort our reality today.
Watch the official trailer below and expect Bloody Disgusting’s review very soon.
- 3/8/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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