![]() ![]() The two claimed that Pazder eventually used regression hypnosis (a highly controversial technique) to help Smith supposedly recover repressed memories of ritualistic abuse by a Satanic cult. She alleged that she’d been caged with snakes and forced to watch cult members kill kittens before her eyes.Īs viewers learn, Smith first began treatment with Pazder after a miscarriage. In the 1980 co-written biography, Smith claimed to have endured a 14-month period of detainment and torture by a satanist cult to which her mother also allegedly belonged. She was not involved in coverage of any documentaries or editing of the story.)īeyond setting off a national wave of paranoia, Satan Wants You examines how Michelle Remembers-and Pazder and Smith’s questionable relationship both before and after its publication-affected the personal lives of many around the pair. ![]() ![]() (Disclosure: Allegra Frank, a Daily Beast’s Obsessed editor, is a member of the SXSW documentary jury. The film debuted Saturday as part of SXSW’s Documentary Spotlight and tells the story of Michelle Remembers-an account that claimed to share repressed memories from Canadian woman Michelle Smith’s childhood, with help from her psychiatrist Lawrence “Larry” Pazder. How did one discredited biography ignite one of America’s most memorable moral panics? That’s the central mystery that the new documentary Satan Wants You seeks to unravel. ![]()
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