SATAN WANTS YOU

By Sean HORLOR, Steve ADAMS

CARGO FILM & RELEASING - as SALES All rights, World

Social issues - Completed 2022

The shocking story of how a young woman and her psychiatrist ignited the global Satanic Panic with their bestselling memoir Michelle Remembers.

Festivals
& Awards

SXSW 2023
Documentary Spotlight
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 86 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Sean HORLOR, Steve ADAMS
    • Producer(s)
    • Michael TANKO GRAND, Melissa JAMES
    • Synopsis
    • 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.