Satan Wants You
I watched Satan Wants You on the CBC's Documentary Channel last week. It is an extremely good documentary that should finally lay to rest any doubt about what Michelle Smith "remembered" in Michelle Remembers.
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Looking back a decade or so in this forum there were lots of threads about Satanic Ritual Abuse with many proponents posting extensively. Those of us who skeptical took a bit of a thumping.
And, Q-Anon seems to be leading to a resurgence in his belief.
I knew most of the background about Michelle and Dr. Pazder and how they created the Satanic Panic but this documentary added a few new pieces I was not aware of previously - the financial involvement of the Roman Catholic Church in particular.
What in particular strikes me is the utter failure on the part of the main stream press in having a scintilla of skepticism and doing anything like investigative reporting. It was left to her family to do such basic research as going to her high school to find the class picture of her in year book at the time she was supposedly incarcerated by the satanists. That she was a French speaker even though the book claimed she knew not a word of French.
It is difficult to unscramble the responsibility for her lies between Pazder and Michelle as they both fed off each other. Did either or both truly believe? The documentary goes into both of these issues in some detail and does not reach a conclusion.
Her family were the first to suffer.
I don't know how you can watch this show outside of Canada but Google tells me it may be available on Apple+ or Tubi. Worth a watch if you can find it.
I watched Satan Wants You on the CBC's Documentary Channel last week. It is an extremely good documentary that should finally lay to rest any doubt about what Michelle Smith "remembered" in Michelle Remembers.
Described as:
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The story of how a young woman and her psychiatrist ignited the global Satanic Panic with their book, Michelle Remembers. A young woman and her psychiatrist ignited the global Dr. Pazder in the 1980s During the 1980s and ‘90s the world was gripped by the cultural hysteria known as the Satanic Panic. Ignited by Michelle Remembers, a lurid memoir by psychiatrist Larry Pazder and his patient Michelle Smith, rumors of Satanic Ritual Abuse spread through panic-stricken communities worldwide. Although Dr. Pazder’s methodology relied on controversial recovered-memory therapy to expose Michelle’s childhood abduction by baby-stealing Satanists, the book became a bestseller and left a wave of destruction and wrongful convictions in its wake. In the feature documentary Satan Wants You, filmmakers Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams dive deep into the untold story of how Dr. Pazder and Michelle Smith became international sensations, supported by the Catholic Church and amplified by law enforcement and America’s daytime TV boom. The film features shocking, never-before-heard audio recordings of the pair’s original therapy sessions and interviews with a high priestess of the Church of Satan, a Wiccan police detective, an FBI ‘Mind Hunter’ as well as the devastated families of both Michelle and Lawrence. Satan Wants You is a compelling investigation into the roots of moral panics, cult conspiracies, and the making of contemporary legends, revealing how these events still impact and distort our reality to this day. |
And, Q-Anon seems to be leading to a resurgence in his belief.
I knew most of the background about Michelle and Dr. Pazder and how they created the Satanic Panic but this documentary added a few new pieces I was not aware of previously - the financial involvement of the Roman Catholic Church in particular.
What in particular strikes me is the utter failure on the part of the main stream press in having a scintilla of skepticism and doing anything like investigative reporting. It was left to her family to do such basic research as going to her high school to find the class picture of her in year book at the time she was supposedly incarcerated by the satanists. That she was a French speaker even though the book claimed she knew not a word of French.
It is difficult to unscramble the responsibility for her lies between Pazder and Michelle as they both fed off each other. Did either or both truly believe? The documentary goes into both of these issues in some detail and does not reach a conclusion.
Her family were the first to suffer.
I don't know how you can watch this show outside of Canada but Google tells me it may be available on Apple+ or Tubi. Worth a watch if you can find it.
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