Satan Wants You
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.
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Credits
Directors: | Sean Horlor, Steve J. Adams |
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Executive Producer: | Sean Horlor, Steve J. Adams |
Producer: | Michael Grand, Melissa James |
Screenwriter: | Sean Horlor, Steve J. Adams |
Cinematographer: | Blake Davey |
Editor: | Graham Kew |
Production Designer: | Juan Gonzales |
Sound Designer: | Mark Dolmont |
Music: | Mark Dolmont |
Principal Cast: | Sarah Marshall, Charyl Proby-Austman, Charles Ennis, Debbie Nathan, Ken Lanning, Elizabeth Loftus, Blanche Barton, Jeffrey S. Victor |
Additional Credits: | Associate Producer: Hayley Morin |
Contact
Public Film Contact: | David Piperni |
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Publicity Contact: | Sylvia Desrochers, MPRM Communications |
Sales Agent: | David Piperni, Cargo Film and Releasing |