The 1970’s were a boom for exploitation films, everyone and their mother could get a film into seedy grindhouses and drive-ins. Florida was one of the many regional hotspots for horror and exploitation, and with audiences going gaga in the late 60’s/early 70’s for occult and satanic films, in came a tiny film from the Florida swamps by the name of SATAN’S CHILDREN.

The film stars Stephen White as Bobby, a put-upon teenager, dealing with the constant insults of his father, and his step-sister constantly trying to seduce him. Before long, Bobby finds himself being assaulted by a group of men after going to a gay bar and then finding himself in the compound of a satanic cult. The twists and turns that this film takes would make your head spin. I also truly cannot figure out what angle the filmmakers were trying to go for, because dialogue and character wise, this movie is WILDLY homophobic, but also the way they shoot Bobby, so many lingering shots of him in his tighty whiteys, this movie is wildly all over the place. It’s a slow regional horror film, but if you can get onto the films incredibly bizarre and singular wavelength, SATAN’S CHILDREN is a good grimy time, and if you are a fan of low budget regional filmmaking, you owe it to yourself to give this film a shot.

AGFA and Something Weird present SATAN’S CHILDREN on blu, stated on the back of the case as “2K preservation from the only known 35mm theatrical print in existence” You can tell that this is sourced from a print, but AGFA have really put in the work, they’ve gotten this about as good as it can look from a print from that era. Colors are nice and vibrant, skin tones look good and natural, overall, a good presentation given the materials they had to work with. Audio fares the same, no real egregious pops and hisses that I could tell, dialogue was nice and clear, and the electronic score sounds good, but your sound system isn’t going to flex its muscles with this one.

There is a nice slate of extras on this disc, including an audio commentary with queer film historian Elizabeth Purchell and AFGA’s Bret Berg, a Q&A reunion with the cast and crew, two bonus shorts; SATAN IN CHURCH, and BOYS BEWARE, a 1970 TV special THE WEIRD WORLD OF WEIRD, and a trailer reel of various satanic exploitation films.