A new documentary investigates the Canadian origins of the satanic panic that swept across North America in the 1980s and ’90s.
Satan Wants You explores the story behind the 1980 book Michelle Remembers, written by Michelle Smith and psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder of Victoria. It recounts therapy sessions between Smith and Pazder in which she shared supposedly recovered memories of childhood abuse that occurred during satanic rituals.
Directors Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams spoke with CBC News earlier this year about the documentary.
“This book, and the story, that started in Canada was the origin story of the satanic panic,” Horlor said. “We sort of realized
