Blanche Barton

Papier-mâché animal heads and occult illusionism shake hands with garden-variety domestic routines in this mischievous, surprisingly colorful documentary. At once prayerful and playful, the film’s access-all-areas vignettes illuminate the motley world of modern-day Satanists by fire-juggling light.

When a 1980 memoir uncovered a Satanist abduction, a Satanic Panic pervaded the globe, leaving destruction and wrongful convictions in its wake.