Lumpy, could you spoil one thing for me (in a box is fine):
when the creator says “The penny still hasn’t dropped about Ritual Abuse in the 21st century”, do they mean the idea it’s a load of hysterical claptrap, or does the film lend itself to reinforcing that harmful shit? i.e. is it pro- SRA being a real thing?
I watched the first 10 minutes or so - It sure doesn’t look like 9 -11-year-olds did the drawings to me. They must have been chosen for their drawing abilities. They weren’t just random kids.
It begins as a late-teen/ young adult equivalent of Nancy Drew begins investigating her father’s suspicious death. What she finds is an entire underground culture of ritual child abuse (it’s “Satanic” mainly for symbolism purposes). She tries to get to the bottom of it only to discover that it has no bottom: apparently from time immemorial pagan practices survived underground and the traditions of ritual sacrfice and sexual initiation have been there forever, in it’s modern form morphed into SRA. There’s no one to expose it to- the fix is in up to the highest levels of society and government. In the end to keep from being murdered herself she’s subsumed into the cult.
I just assumed the disclaimer at the start of the film saying kids animated it was horseshit - like the ‘based a on a true story’ thing at the beginning of Fargo
I have been watching it since the OP was posted. Admittedly, only at the rate of 2 minutes a month but I should be finished soon. I will let you know what I think then.