| Paradise Lost 2: Revelations | |
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| Directed by | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky |
| Starring | Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin (the West Memphis 3) and John Mark Byers |
| Music by | Metallica |
| Distributed by | Home Box Office (HBO) |
| Release date(s) | June 22, 2000 |
| Running time | 130 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations is the 2000 sequel to the documentary film Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, about the trial and conviction of three teenagers known as the West Memphis 3 accused of murdering three young boys in a Satanic ritual abuse.[1]
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In Paradise Lost 2, Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger visit support groups for Damien Echols, sentenced to lethal injection in the first film, and revisit Mark Byers, who is facing gossip about his possible involvement with the murder of his son. Echols is appealing his sentence and his defense attorney notices what he believes to be bite marks in a photograph of the face of one of the victims; the prosecution argues that the marks are from a belt buckle and not teeth.
The three boys convicted in the first film are all tested and do not match the alleged "bite marks" on the victim. The support groups for Echols want Byers to have his bitemark compared to the one on the photo, but Byers has had false teeth since four years after his son's murder. Byers gave the Defense copies of his dental records and they didn't match the "bite marks" either. Byers takes a polygraph to prove his innocence but is on a variety of medications that could affect the outcome of the test, including Xanax and Haldol; he passes the polygraph test.[1]
Metallica allowed their music to be used in the movie.[2] The directors are planning two more sequels.[3]