Paradise Lost 2 - Revelations
by Damien Wayne Echols, Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
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Actor: Burk Sauls, Damien Wayne Echols, Jessie Miskelly, Melissa Byers, Steven BranchDirector: Bruce Sinofsky, Damien Wayne Echols, Joe Berlinger
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 130 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Docurama
Movie Reviews of Paradise Lost 2 - Revelations
Movie Review: Excellent follow up
Summary: 5 Stars
High profile murder cases deserve follow up, and this was no exception. Though not as high profile as some have been, when a case like this brings out such emotion it is important to see what the players are doing through the years from the criminals to the victim's families.
There has been enough hype that has promoted this into popular thought. Internet groups have been sprung up to promote the innocence and hearsay that the three teenagers accused of murdering three boys in a demonic ritual were falsely accused. The teenagers are currently serving life sentences without parole. We see them in a different light than before. They are older, more mature, and hardened by prison. They are more accepting of their situation, saying that they wish they had not done or said the things they had said because they didn't understand before. Granted, but that is not enough to release them from their guilt.
We are supposed to cast doubt on their guilt by further investigation of the victim's stepfather. They are all poor white trash in Arkansas, he is no exception. He's had several brushes with the law, and his wife (the mother of one of the victims) died under mysterious circumstances in 96. He also had his teeth removed and wears dentures (which he takes out and displays many times in this documentary), casting doubt upon whether or not the bite marks on the victims could match his teeth. He is flamboyant and loves the spotlight, but the other victims' families choose to bow out, wanting to be left in peace with their grief. This is not enough evidence to convince me that he might have done it.
The fact remains that these teenage boys, now young adult men, will get the electric chair someday because they deserve it. There is too much evidence that they did it. Check the special features section in this and the first documentary to see the things that ended up on the cutting room floor. They didn't give you an accurate picture of them as teenagers, nor as young adults. There are several red herrings in evidence, the police did not do the best job they could have done (do they ever in these cases?), and too much has come forward from others to determine their guilt rather than defend their innocence.
Summary of Paradise Lost 2 - Revelations
Directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky return to the scene of the crime with this urgent follow-up to their harrowing 1996 documentary, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. That profoundly disturbing film chronicles the tragic and twisted case of three young men--Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley--who were convicted of the brutal 1993 murders of three second graders. The film suggests that perhaps their only crime was dressing in black and liking Metallica. To the townspeople, this smacked of Satanism and marked them as made-to-order suspects. Meanwhile, Mark Byars, the stepfather of one of the victims emerged from the film as a "Why-isn't-anyone-following-up-on-this?" suspect. Revelations, which, for those who missed the first film, efficiently recaps the case, and charts the trio's maddening appeals process (police browbeat a confession out of Misskelley, who has an IQ of 71, after 12 hours of questioning), as well as the efforts of a group of Internet advocates to "Free the West Memphis Three." Byers is back as well, and he is infinitely more terrifying than anything in Book of Shadows, Berlinger's Blair Witch sequel. We learn that Byers had all his teeth extracted in the years after the murders (human bite marks are among the new evidence introduced). We also learn that his wife has since died of undetermined causes. When Byers passes a suspect lie detector test, he exults, "I knew I was innocent." A further mystery is why both Paradise Lost films have not garnered the media attention or sparked the outrage that attended Errol Morris's The Thin Blue Line, which led to the release of an innocent man who was imprisoned for more than 10 years. Both films give new meaning to the concept of reasonable doubt. --Donald LiebensonParadise Lost 2: Revelations revisits the 1994 Arkansas murder of three 8-year-old boys and the three teenagers convicted of the crime. A follow up to Paradise Lost, Revelations features new interviews with the convicted men, as well as with the original judge and police investigators. While focusing on advocates who believe the young men are innocent Revelations also includes footage of the stepfather of one of the victims, who some suspect might be involved in the crime.
A disturbing and moving documentary, Revelations is investigative journalism and advocacy at its best. This case, as with the OJ Simpson and Jon Benet Ramsy murder trials, for better or worse, will remain in the spotlight for years to come as an example of America's judicial system gone astray.
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