| Paradise Lost 2: Revelations | |
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| Directed by | Joe Berlinger Bruce Sinofsky |
| Produced by | Joe Berlinger Bruce Sinofsky |
| Starring | Jessie Misskelley Jr. Damien Echols Jason Baldwin John Mark Byers |
| Cinematography | Bob Richman |
| Edited by | M. Watanabe Milmore |
| Music by | Metallica |
| Distributed by | Home Box Office (HBO) |
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Running time | 130 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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.[2]
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.
- ^ Gates, Anita (13 March 2000). "A Crime, and It's Questions, Revisited". The New York Times.
- ^ Ebert, Roger. "Paradise Lost 2: Revelations". Chicago Sun Times. Retrieved 22 September 2011.