SUFFER, LITTLE CHILDREN

Written by producer Meg Shanks (who also owned the school that supplied the movie's child actors), SUFFER, LITTLE CHILDREN is one of the most unforgettable and immersive shot-on-video horror movies in existence. Combining exploitive "true crime" elements with a hallucinatory aesthetic, the movie purports to be a "recreation" of supernatural events that took place in August, 1984 at an orphanage in Surrey, England. Whether or not these events are true is a moot point. Banned during the UK's Video Nasty witch hunt and previously only available via VHS bootlegs, SUFFER, LITTLE CHILDREN is a true bludgeon to the brain -- now via Severin Films it's fully uncut and uncensored for the first time ever! (Severin)

"Feels like a group of new romantik punx hijacking some London church's VBS session to put on their own Satanic passion play, camcorder and two edit VCRs in hand. This sells itself as just being a 'reconstruction of real events,' but the third-gen tape dub scramble and the legitimately good kid actors make this seem more realistic than any recreation could ever hope to be. To say anything more would be to spoil just how insanely inventive and fun this is, but I will say that the final 20 minutes are pure video nirvana." - Liz Purchell