Presented by Brugger Documentary Film Days
Michelle Smith writes the book “Michelle Remembers” together with her psychiatrist Larry Pazder — the reappraisal of her memories of a childhood in which she was hired out by her own mother to a Satanic cult circle. She remembers unholy rituals, sacrificed children, torture, or women who were used as childbearing machines for human sacrifices. Above all, it triggered mass hysteria in the USA in the 1980s, the “Satanic Panic.”
SATAN WANT'S YOU explores the events of that time in the guise of a gripping true crime documentary. It shows how hundreds of talk shows across the country took up the topic, how media reported on how alleged victims of Satanism appeared all over America and suddenly there was talk of a secret organization that sacrificed not only individuals but hundreds of children to the devil. But where exactly was the evidence for this?
In collaboration with the Brugger Documentary Film Days, we present this exciting documentary about an almost absurd chapter of mainstream American TV culture. Perfectly staged and backed with fantastic archive material, directors Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams amaze us and often make our heads shake in disbelief.