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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
This was the worst documentary ever!!
Three blood-thirsty child murders have been sent free, thanks to this one-sided propaganda piece. The whole notion that these three were the victims of small-town prejudices is nonsense. These three were not convicted because they wore black, listened to Metallica, or read Stephen King novels. That is patently absurd and is a huge insult to people in small towns. Consider the following things that this documentary conveniently omits:
1) Jesse Misskelley did not have just one confession, in which he admitted to murdering those boys. He had a total of FIVE confessions!! Including a confession where his lawyer was present and advised him not to.
2) Damien was not simply a misunderstood outcast. He was certifiably mentally ill and had been in multiple psych wards prior to this incident. He was into animal torture, setting fires, drinking human blood and had talked about his desire to kill his parents. He was prone to hallucinations and often had extremely violent thoughts. One psych ward had labeled him as a psychotic and took precautions so that he wouldn't injure other patients. Incidents at the trial where qualified psychiatric professionals testified to his mental state were omitted from this farce of a documentary.
Please, I urge other readers to do further research into this matter. WM3truth.com is a good source to get started.
Geek Maggot Bingo or The Freak from Suckweasel Mountain (1983)
Nick Zedd is heir to Ed Wood's throne
In my entire life, I have never seen a more stunning example of how parody can fall flat on it's face. Listen, I get it, low-budget horror movies are laughable with their bad acting, corny dialog and low- budget special effects. Soooo......the obvious way to satirize them is with worse acting, cornier dialog, and special effects that would make Ed Wood cringe, right?. WRONG. And this movie proves it with a vengeance. Parodying low budget horror movies is an OK idea, just as long as you don't end up with a film that is substantially worse than most low budget horror movies. Furthermore, for a film to succeed as a parody, it usually requires humor and that is something that is PAINFULLY missing in this film. The amateurish acting and cringe worthy dialog would have been fine with me if I had, at least gotten a few decent laughs out of it. But the (intentional) laughs are few and far between. As far as the low-budget sets and bad special effects are concerned, I understand that they were deliberately bad. However, they went WAY overboard to make them look cheap and cheezy.