Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
This is one harrowing thing to watch, so be warned. Heck, we start off with police footage of the dead bodies of three 8-year-olds, so get ready to become a whole lot more uncomfortable during the course of this documentary, but perhaps not for the reason you might suspect. See, this documentary has no voice-over, as it only shows us interviews and especially quite a lot of footage of the trial of three teenagers accused of brutally killing and maiming those children. However, you will quickly realise something is quite amiss. See, all of this takes place in West Memphis, in a locale that can be easily classified under 'trailer park'. So you start to get a feeling of the people society oftentimes just leaves behind. Here are three kids that don't really fit in as they tend to wear black, don't care for the usual hobbies or interests and listen to heavy metal. Because the police is both pretty incompetent and tensions are rising quickly, they needed a scapegoat and wh...
