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Nympho wrote on 10/21/2011:

Another TLAV disappointing commentary on this movie. I was expecting tons of gay guys and nudity and graphic scenes. The beginning and middle I think were somewhat graphic. The abortion thing could have been much more graphic then what it was and in that area, pretty much Realistic to what happens as far as procedure and feel to some. But that was over exaggerated. The whole this if you are in a rut and trying to climb out of it. Jesus is the "Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Santa Clause" for grown up and that is their way of trying to put blame or reason for their bad things in life. We all know it is Charma. What goes around comes around and Three times harder. It was okay but I am glad I streamed it. I don't know if I would ever buy it. But if you have 16.00 dollars to burn I maybe would think about it. I would wait till it is severely reduced then buy it. I don't think it was a low budget film due to I knew a few of the actors that are retired from the industry but It was funny how they made fun of TBN the holy channel with the Crouch family. They did act them out to the T. Not bad to have in a collection but a good reference if you are wanting to scare some one into doing the right thing in different aspects of like.

Amos Lassen wrote on 08/31/2011:

Even though “Satan Hates You” looks like a home movie which was filmed in someone’s basement and with amateurs in the cast, it does have some redeeming features as it looks at drugs, murder, promiscuity, paganism and murder. I read that the idea for the film came from those Christian propaganda pamphlets and films of the 1970’s. We find ourselves on the way to damnation with Marc (Don Wood), a bisexual psycho and Wendy (Christine Spencer) a teen lush who loves to party (in the men’s restroom at her local bar).

This is writer/director James Felix McKenney’s homage to those Christian horror movies about the end of time that I mentioned earlier and it is too bad that the whole thing does not work. Marc is an unemployed alcoholic while Wendy is a morally loose pregnant teenager who snorts cocaine and pops pills. Then we have two Christians played by Bradford Scobie and Larry Fessenden who want Marc’s and Wendy’s souls for the devil and Angus Scrimm, a missionary from heaven tries to save them. As much as the film tries to be like those older films, it never quite makes it—but it is an interesting attempt.

For whatever reason, Marc gets hit on by gay guys who soon lean that the morning after a night of abandon can be really terrible. Marc and Wendy are on the road to hell and they listen to the demons that are eager to help them get there by pushing them into all kinds of sin.

There is no question that this is a horror film that is almost an exploitation film. Some of what you will see here includes an abortion, drug abuse, murder, addiction, vomit and so on and it does captivate the viewer. Some may say it is silly or a gross out but I really think it is interesting. This is one of those films that there is no unanimous agreement over its merits or its minuses—from what I can tell, it is a film that either you love or you hate. There seems to be no middle ground.