Blu-ray Review – Satan Wants You

Satanic Panic was all the rage in the 1980s, putting tabloid television and a multitude of grifters to the test as they worked to exploit the fears of suburbanites trying to make sense of their media-manipulated world. “Satan Wants You” is a documentary exploring ground zero of the phenomenon, highlighting the success of the 1980 book, “Michelle Remembers,” the literary weapon that inspired a whole decade of panic and exploitation. Directors Steve J. Adams and Sean Horlor want in on the rush of terror, out to craft an unsettling understanding of a calculated manipulation that snowballed into a national nightmare. “Satan Wants You” tries to be overly dramatic to support the mood of the subject matter, but it occasionally veers into ridiculousness, which doesn’t help the semi-interesting tale of deception that’s presented here. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com