Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)

Directed by

Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 10m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 128 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows the appeals process of Damien Echols, one of the West Memphis Three convicted of murder. It also looks at the victim's father John Mark Byers and a support group that believes the three boys are innocent.

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What happens

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations is a 2000 American documentary film directed and produced by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, and the sequel to their 1996 film Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, about the trials of the West Memphis Three, three teenage boys accused of the May 1993 murders and sexual mutilation of three prepubescent boys as a part of an alleged satanic ritual in West Memphis, Arkansas. Revelations takes place five years after the events depicted in the first film, as Damien Echols, one of the West Memphis Three, who were all named as guilty of the murders in 1994, appeals his lethal injection sentence. It mostly focuses on John Mark Byers, the father of one of the victims who has grown increasingly obsessed with the West Memphis Three, and on a support group who is convinced that the three are innocent. The film was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special, and was later followed by a third film, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, in 2011. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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