rglafleur-54727 This "movie" is total bullshit. There is no truth, and no reliability. EVERY actor is terrible. Look at every shot, its full of mismatched items. They put the stupidest people you will ever encounter, and put them on the stage so YOU can feel brilliant. The crust of america.

antidisestablishmentarioism Three blood-thirsty child murders have been sent free, thanks to this one-sided propaganda piece. The whole notion that these three were the victims of small-town prejudices is nonsense. These three were not convicted because they wore black, listened to Metallica, or read Stephen King novels. That is patently absurd and is a huge insult to people in small towns. Consider the following things that this documentary conveniently omits:1) Jesse Misskelley did not have just one confession, in which he admitted to murdering those boys. He had a total of FIVE confessions!! Including a confession where his lawyer was present and advised him not to. 2) Damien was not simply a misunderstood outcast. He was certifiably mentally ill and had been in multiple psych wards prior to this incident. He was into animal torture, setting fires, drinking human blood and had talked about his desire to kill his parents. He was prone to hallucinations and often had extremely violent thoughts. One psych ward had labeled him as a psychotic and took precautions so that he wouldn't injure other patients. Incidents at the trial where qualified psychiatric professionals testified to his mental state were omitted from this farce of a documentary.Please, I urge other readers to do further research into this matter. WM3truth.com is a good source to get started.

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain I always believed that a case needed only reasonable doubt to find people innocent. Apparently I was very wrong. I am in no way claiming my support for the three found guilty, but I for one could never convict them based on this evidence. The film shows just how unstable people can be when faced with those that don't conform. I was amazed by how much I disliked the parents of the murdered boys. They ramble and scream about killing these three, already convinced of their guilt. They seem more unstable and threatening to me, and not just because their children have been murdered. No real physical evidence is brought up against the boys, whom should probably start training professional killers on how not to leave evidence at a murder site. I know for a fact that a lot of details were left out of this documentary, and the celebrity worship that has followed the accused since is a bit too much. However this film is terrifying. It shows that just because of the way you look, and what people say about you, can take away your entire life. Make sure to check out all the evidence for yourself.

bob_meg Few things really set me off like willful ignorance and unfortunately, this now classic Joe Berlinger doc about one of the greatest legal travesties of the 20th century gave me plenty of chances to reach for my blood pressure pills.All the jaw-dropping stupidity of the prosecuting attorney's non-factual "arguments" combined with the coercive tactics from their incompetent cop flunkies, layered with the basic terror rednecks seem to respond with at anything not layered in right-wing religious voodoo (in other words, things they can't understand) would be really hysterical if three children hadn't died because of it all, and three more teens (one being legally retarded) lives needlessly ruined.It's the subject matter that really carries things here. Berlinger's hand is steady but at times his camera seems a bit too eager to dive into trashy voyeurism. However, he makes up for it with some great investigative reporting techniques.The true horror, when you get past the dismembered bodies of the three second-grade kids, is the fact that the three so-called "goths" who allegedly killed them are drowned by a corrupt legal system with stacks of so-called "evidence" that is either implied, completely fabricated, based on here-say, or could never possibly have happened when simple logic and physics laws are applied.Meanwhile, reams of other, very plausible suspects accumulate and nothing is done to pursue them (yes, Mark, we're talking to you). Only a true Gomer would be so inept as to hand over a potential murder weapon to the documentary filmmaker who's following him around. But serial killers have been known to supply "helpful" evidence about their crimes."West Memphis is hell," says one of the West Memphis Three's relatives. It certainly is, especially if you don't tote no bible.