SXSW First Look: ‘Satan Wants You’ Digs Into The Satanic Panic Of The 1980s, And Shows How “Cult Conspiracies… Distort Our Reality Today”

EXCLUSIVE: In the 1980s America was gripped by “Satanic Panic,” a fear that devil-worshipping cretins were engaged in secret ritualistic abuse and child sacrifice. These fanciful and irrational not…

In the 1980s America was gripped by “Satanic Panic,” a fear that devil-worshipping cretins were engaged in secret ritualistic abuse and child sacrifice., premiering at the SXSW Film Festival this Saturday, explores the origins of a cultural delusion that wound up harming a lot of innocent people. Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams directed the film, which is programmed in the festival’s Documentary Spotlight section. , a lurid memoir by psychiatrist Larry Pazder and his patient Michelle Smith.

“What surprised us most when we started the film was the number of experts—police officers, journalists, sociologists, podcasters—who believed the Pazders and their book were responsible for igniting the Satanic Panic of the ‘80s and ‘90s, yet no one had ever explored this story in a documentary format,” Horlor and Adams write in a director’s statement.

The directors continue, “This film is also ground-breaking for another reason. In our final month of production, an anonymous source sent us one of Michelle and Larry’s original therapy tapes from 1976. This is one-of-a-kind archive material that has never been heard by anyone but Michelle and Larry and the transcribers who worked on their book.

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