Das verlorene Paradies - Die Kindermorde in Robin Hood Hills

Originaltitel: Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

1996
Not Rated
2 Std. 30 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

8,2/10

18.586

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Das verlorene Paradies - Die Kindermorde in Robin Hood Hills (1996)

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Crime Documentary Crime Documentary

Ein grausamer dreifacher Kindermord führt zu einer Anklage und einem Prozess gegen drei nonkonformistische Jungen, der auf fragwürdigen Beweisen beruht.Ein grausamer dreifacher Kindermord führt zu einer Anklage und einem Prozess gegen drei nonkonformistische Jungen, der auf fragwürdigen Beweisen beruht.Ein grausamer dreifacher Kindermord führt zu einer Anklage und einem Prozess gegen drei nonkonformistische Jungen, der auf fragwürdigen Beweisen beruht.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

8,2/10

18.586

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

1 Primetime Emmy gewonnen
- 9 Gewinne & 10 Nominierungen insgesamt

Self - KAIT-TV
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Diana Davis

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Terry Wood

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Dick Clay

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Jenna Newton

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Gary Gitchell

Self

Tommy Stacy

Self
(as Rev. Tommy Stacy)

Melissa Byers

Self

Todd Moore

Self

Dana Moore

Self

Pam Hobbs

Self

Jessie Misskelley Sr.

Self

Gail Grinnell

Self

Joe Hutchinson

Self

John Mark Byers

Self

Jason Baldwin

Self

Damien Wayne Echols

Self

Jessie Misskelley

Self
(as Jessie Miskelly)

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Wissenswertes
First feature film to contain licensed music of Metallica, something that the band was initially opposed of doing. The band was involved in raising public awareness of the accused. Joe Berlinger would later do a documentary on Metallica in "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster".

Patzer
Damien reads this Shakespearean quote while on trial: "Life's but a walking shadow...full of sound and fury signifying nothing." He incorrectly refers to it as being from A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is, in fact, a soliloquy famously from Macbeth.

Zitate
Damien Wayne Echols: I knew from when I was real small people were gonna know who I was, I always had that feeling... I just never knew how they were gonna learn. I kind of enjoy it now because even after I die, people are gonna remember me forever. People are gonna talk about me for years. People in West Memphis will tell their kids stories... It'll be sorta like I'm the West Memphis boogie man. Little kids will be looking under their beds - "Damien might be under there!"

Verbindungen
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The First Wives Club/Big Night/Surviving Picasso/Last Man Standing/Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)

Soundtracks
Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
By Metallica
Written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett
Produced by Flemming Rasmussen (uncredited) with Metallica (uncredited)

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10/10

Haunting

Absolutely haunting. This chilling account of murder and the search for justice will leave you open-mouthed and shocked for the tale is not a pretty one. Three eight year old boys are brutally slain (and there is graphic footage so this is not for the faint of heart), but the focus of the story is upon the three teenagers of this Arkansas town who are put on trial for the killings. And as the film unfolds you begin to wonder if the boys are truly guilty of this heinous crime or are being persecuted for being different in a town that locks different away. In the end, you are your own jury in determining the guilt of these black-wearing, Metallica-listening boys who didn't quite fit in. If you can stomach the upsetting scenes and the entire idea (which I admit put me off for a long time) you will find the film completely consuming. Unable to tear your eyes from the screen, the story and the boys who lived it will stay with you forever. Simply incredible.