Damien Echols

Acting

Damien Echols

Born 1974-12-11 · Arkansas, USA

Damien Wayne Echols is an American writer and ceremonial magician based in Harlem, New York. He is best known as one of the West Memphis Three, a group of teenagers controversially accused and convicted of a triple murder in 1994. Since his release from death row in 2011, Echols has authored several autobiographies and spiritual books.

Acting credits

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory poster
7.4

A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison before being released after new DNA evidence indicated they may be innocent.

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

2012

West of Memphis poster
7.4

The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who lived it, the filmmakers' unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense allows the film to show the investigation, research, and appeals process in a way that has never been seen before; revealing shocking and disturbing new information about a case that still haunts the American South.

West of Memphis

2012

IRL poster
8.0

An alienated girl struggles to piece together the events of the previous night over 24 hours in NYC, only to be reminded that nothing is ever as it seems in a city where everyone is a self-made avatar, and violence looms like a halo.

IRL

2013

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations poster
7.2

Revisiting the 1994 Arkansas murder of three 8-year-old boys and the three teenagers convicted of the crime. A follow up to Paradise Lost, Revelations features new interviews with the convicted men, as well as with the original judge and police investigators.

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations

2000

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills poster
7.6

A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

1996

Bloodlines: The Art and Life of Vincent Castiglia poster
NR

Vincent Castiglia paints in human blood.

Bloodlines: The Art and Life of Vincent Castiglia

2018

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