We don’t often cover documentaries here, but once in a while a film will cross our paths that it makes sense to discuss. A new film directed by Steve J. Adams and Sean Horlor definitely fits that bill. An exploration of the 80s Satanic Panic in the US and Canada with the jumping off point of the wildly influential memoir, Michelle Remembers, Satan Wants You is both a chilling reminder of the era in which these stories were mainstream news and a warning that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Michelle Remembers was co-written by Michelle Smith and Dr. Lawrence Pazder. It relays in gruesome detail Smith’s alleged ritual abuse at the hands of a Satanic coven in the early 60s. Smith...
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- 8/10/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Moral panics have been with us as a species since time immemorial. From the persecution of European pagans at the end of the Roman empire in the Fourth Century, to the Salem witch trials in New England in the 17th Century. Blame Canada, if you will, for the spark that lit the Satanic Panic fire in the early 1980s, the first great moral panic to be spread through television and daytime talk shows. That spark was a best selling book written by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder called Michelle Remembers, a lurid and sensational account of a year of psychotherapy sessions involving “recovered-memory therapy” (a technique that has since been scientifically discredited), in which Michelle recalled and recounted an escalating series of mutilations and...
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- 8/10/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Satan Wants You
If you are much over 40, the chances are that you will remember the great Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Even if you’re younger, the chances are that you’ve seen references to it in popular culture, including films. What you may not be aware of is the book which started it. Moral panics like this always involve multiple triggers, but Michelle Remembers, by Lawrence Pazder and Michelle Smith, had a massive, worldwide impact, persuading all sorts of otherwise sensible people that, without leaving any physical evidence behind them whatsoever, secret Satanist cults were sacrificing vast numbers of children.
Steve J Adams and Sean Horlor’s new documentary, Satan Wants You, examines the impact of this book and reveals some shocking things about the story behind it. When it screened as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival, I took the opportunity to meet with the two directors and learned that.
If you are much over 40, the chances are that you will remember the great Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Even if you’re younger, the chances are that you’ve seen references to it in popular culture, including films. What you may not be aware of is the book which started it. Moral panics like this always involve multiple triggers, but Michelle Remembers, by Lawrence Pazder and Michelle Smith, had a massive, worldwide impact, persuading all sorts of otherwise sensible people that, without leaving any physical evidence behind them whatsoever, secret Satanist cults were sacrificing vast numbers of children.
Steve J Adams and Sean Horlor’s new documentary, Satan Wants You, examines the impact of this book and reveals some shocking things about the story behind it. When it screened as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival, I took the opportunity to meet with the two directors and learned that.
- 8/9/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Fox Corp.’s Tubi, its free, ad-supported streaming TV service, has pounced on two high-profile Fantasia titles, led by “Where the Devil Roams,” the Adams family’s follow-up to “Hellbender,” Rotten Tomatoes No. 1 movie on its Top 10 of best-rated horror films of 2022, just besting Eskil Vogt’s “The Innocents.”
Estimating that it reaches 64 million monthly active users, Tubi also pounced on doc feature “Satan Wants You,” which world premiered at March’s SXSW. Both Fantasia titles will have their exclusive streaming premieres on Tubi this winter.
Written and directed by daughter Zelda Adams, father John Adams and mother Toby Poser at their Wonder Wheel Productions, “Where the Devil Roams,” the Adams seventh feature, marks yet another a step-up in scale for the family of filmmakers who first broke out hitting Fantasia in 2019, world premiering “The Deeper You Dig” Zelda, not yet 18, was too young to watch herself.
Set deep in Depression era America,...
Estimating that it reaches 64 million monthly active users, Tubi also pounced on doc feature “Satan Wants You,” which world premiered at March’s SXSW. Both Fantasia titles will have their exclusive streaming premieres on Tubi this winter.
Written and directed by daughter Zelda Adams, father John Adams and mother Toby Poser at their Wonder Wheel Productions, “Where the Devil Roams,” the Adams seventh feature, marks yet another a step-up in scale for the family of filmmakers who first broke out hitting Fantasia in 2019, world premiering “The Deeper You Dig” Zelda, not yet 18, was too young to watch herself.
Set deep in Depression era America,...
- 8/1/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
We don’t often cover documentaries here, but once in a while a film will cross our paths that it makes sense to discuss. Directors’ Steve J. Adams & Sean Horlor’s new film definitely fits that bill. An exploration of the ‘80s Satanic Panic in the US and Canada with the jumping off point of the wildly influential memoir, Michelle Remembers, Satan Wants You is both a chilling reminder of the era in which these stories were mainstream news and a warning that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Michelle Remembers was co-written by Michelle Smith and Dr. Lawrence Pazder. It relays in gruesome detail Smith’s alleged ritual abuse at the hands of a Satanic coven in the early ‘60s. Smith recounts gory...
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- 3/18/2023
- Screen Anarchy
‘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
One of the experts interviewed in Satan Wants You, a disturbingly compelling documentary making its world premiere at SXSW, points out that, today, the 1980s cultural phenomenon known as the “Satanic Panic” is seen as a joke. Bands of Satanists kidnapping children and eating babies? Ok, such talk is not ha-ha funny. But with the passage of time we can certainly call such accusations absurd. In the moment there was nothing funny about it, and results for many falsely accused individuals were devastating.
In Satan Wants You, directors Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams lay the blame on two fascinating individuals: Michelle Smith and Dr. Lawrence Pazder. In 1980, the native of Victoria, British Columbia, and her psychiatrist (Pazder) released the book Michelle Remembers, whose cover teased readers with the following description: “The true story of a year-long contest between innocence and evil.” Smith’s account of childhood Satanic ritual abuse...
In Satan Wants You, directors Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams lay the blame on two fascinating individuals: Michelle Smith and Dr. Lawrence Pazder. In 1980, the native of Victoria, British Columbia, and her psychiatrist (Pazder) released the book Michelle Remembers, whose cover teased readers with the following description: “The true story of a year-long contest between innocence and evil.” Smith’s account of childhood Satanic ritual abuse...
- 3/12/2023
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
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