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It is difficult to take this video seriously. Though it does include what might just be some accurate and interesting information about Satanic practices delivered by a former Satanist turned Christian, it promises far more than it delivers. For one thing, is it really true that two million children go missing every year in the United States? If that means little Johnny bunking off school or playing hide and seek with his uninitiated mother, that may well be the case, but are more than five thousand unidentified bodies of children found every year, seriously?

We hear the testimony of an anonymous survivor of Satanic ritual abuse - read seriously mentally disturbed woman - who participated in the murder of babies. This nutter aside, has the presenter or anyone else associated with this documentary witnessed any of the crimes described therein? Okay, we'll make an exception for Richard Ramirez, but not for David Berkowitz, alluded to here as Richard Berkowitz. Yes, there are mentally deranged or just evil people who commit murders and other abominations in the name of the Devil, but the massive Satanic networks postulated here do not exist and indeed could not exist.

Apart from the purely technical stuff, take everything you see here with a grain of salt. Or maybe a boulder.

So I want to say first I love this movie with my entire heart, enough to violate all the strict prohibitions against civilian viewing, ever, on the box art. I'll serve my time if I get caught, it was worth it.

I am fairly certain at least some aspects of this presentation are.. tongue-in-cheek, shall we say. This is obviously not an internal police production, but the premise is that Eric Pryor (who is a lot of fun if you watch him and catch those fast deadpans) solicited these to cops to help train them about.. what to do if the entire city park is hopelessly taken over by Wiccans, Satanists, a Voodoo priesthood and a swarm of gay people I guess?

The tape is hosted by a pastor and retired cop who is familiar with all the different forms of degeneracy as any law enforcement officer should be. Among these is cult abuse, which he describes as a rapidly growing trend in America. Understanding cults can be facilitated by familiarity with abnormal sexology, which I only minored in back in college so I don't know as much as the man on the television.

From here, we don't really differentiate worshipping the Devil from Wicca from being gay anymore, they're all basically.. well not the SAME cult but they all live at the same camper park so their orgies sometimes overlap, except Demon Revels which is a demure ceremony.

We differentiate dabbling (spray-painting a star somewhere) from spiritual Satanism, and spiritual Satanism from the formal hierarchy which the tape asserts is a criminal organization with a corresponding cult. The primary crime of the cult isn't getting money, as you may expect, it seems to be sex with demons and large dogs. A lot of kids get killed in the commission of this, he says.

We walk through that park I keep mentioning with a former Illuminatus who grew a mullet and wore all black to distance himself from his past and assert his new Christian faith. We learn that gang graffiti isn't super important when investigating crime, but a picture of a mushroom likely indicates a thriving human sacrifice cult.

The problem is, rookie cops will see things like a stone altar with two colored candles and a ton of colorful powders and a corpse covered in pentagrams and assume a normal person left those things at the scene of the murder, mass murder or cannabalistic feast. Because of this, our host is always sure to remind the new cops not to leave these things out of their reports, because all the ritual elements might mean something and the investigators should know about that.

We meet 2 or 3 cops who all have sweet pops of color in their wardrobes (host is always fresh of course), who mainly remind us what's important is to talk to the kids and who remind us that they don't investigate religion, they investigate homicides.

I guess this is good if any actual cop ever saw this thing, but I hope oh do I hope that never happened. Remember, this is not a law enforcement training video--its a tape a prosperity pimpin preacher made FOR law enforcement. It's probably not an accurate portrayal of ANYTHING, much less the attitudes of police in the 90s.

That said, I do love this film. It's a lot more fun than you realize til you see if a few times--I would have worn out a real tape version FAST. The best parts about this film are subtle.