SATAN WANTS YOU

Directed by Sean Horlor, Steve J Adams | 89 min | Canada

Satan Wants You is the untold story of how the Satanic Panic of the 1980s became ignited by Michelle Remembers, a best-selling book written by Catholic psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder and his patient Michelle Smith in the sleepy Canadian town of Victoria, BC. 

The book, a lurid memoir, detailed Michelle's abduction by a Satanic cult as a child, revealing an underground network of baby-stealing satanists vying for America's soul. As cult rumors spread and the infamous panic kicked off, the book was used as evidence for hundreds of charges of "Satanic Ritual Abuse," leaving a wave of destruction, wrongful convictions, and pop culture hysteria in its wake. 

A team of debunkers, including the High Priestess of the Church of Satan, a Wiccan police detective, an FBI 'Mind Hunter', and the devastated families of Michelle and Lawrence, are committed to justice, righting the wrongs and healing the wounds inflicted by the book. But is it too late?

FESTIVALS: SXSW (World Premiere), Hot Docs