Satan Wants You
2023 · Movie · 88 min · ★ 6.1
This documentary traces how a bestselling memoir and a controversial form of therapy helped spark the 1980s Satanic Panic. Through interviews and archival material, it examines how sensational claims spread through media and institutions, fueling fear, accusations, and lasting cultural fallout.
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Details
- Years
- 2023
- Release date
- 2023-08-11
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Max quality
- HD
- TMDB rating
- 6.1/10 (17 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you’re drawn to true-crime-adjacent documentaries about mass hysteria, media influence, and belief, like The Other Side; not for you if you want a calm, clearly structured watch without disturbing allegations.
Pros: fascinating real-world history; unsettling audio excerpts; thought-provoking about memory | Cons: narrow focus on authors; confusing time jumps; hard-to-read on-screen text
Themes
- satanism
- satan
- psychiatrist
- satanic ritual
- satanic cult
- false memory
- 1980s
- abduction
- occultism
- forgotten memory
- satanic
- documentary
- +2 more
Cast & crew
Michelle Smith
as Self (archive footage)
Lawrence Pazder
as Self (archive footage)
Anton LaVey
as Self (archive footage)
Blanche Barton
as Self
- CE
Charles Ennis
as Self
- KL
Ken Lanning
as Self
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus
as Self
Debbie Nathan
as Self
- CP
Charyl Proby-Austman
as Self
- JV
Jeffrey S. Victor
as Self
Directed by Sean Horlor, Steve J. Adams