9/10
I've seen the first two Paradise Lost films and read a book about the case but the West Memphis 3 story never stops being tragic and terrifying no matter how many times you hear it. I missed PL3 so I don't know what's in here that isn't in there and vice versa (the release of the 3, obviously), but this does a good job of telling everything from beginning to end and bringing new things to light that I assume most people will be unaware of. It's maybe a little bit too all-encompassing at times and you start to feel its running length, but it's almost always interesting besides. The biggest crime is obviously the murder of the three boys but what makes the whole situation all the more tragic is the fact that a state and a so-called justice system turned three lost lives into six, with the wrongful imprisonment of Damien, Jason and Jessie. God help us as a society if we don't learn something from all of this.
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