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4 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Great horror directing you hosers, 1 October 2004
8/10
Author: Greg Gorelick from San Diego

OK... lets get the record straight. This movie is about Ricky Kasso, a knob of a teen who was involved in a "Satanic" cult called The Knights of the Black Circle. He killed his friend over drugs, and was high on mescaline when he did it. Nothing extraordinary, just strange. Fear Factory does a great song called 0-0 about this murder...its on the album Obsolete. I cant believe the review someone wrote about this movie talking about Satan worship and such... thanks for the religious right comment, but there are much more shocking things out there than some high school kid killing his friend over some imaginary bad guy. Thats right, I said it... Satan is my favorite IMAGINARY character. Well, him and Han Solo, and the tall man from Phantasm. This is a short film (like 20-30mins or so) but is really good. Good luck finding it. Watching this movie combined with a little internet research on the subject (http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/4077/kasso.html) makes for a nice night of psychotropy.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
a good short about pathetic people, 27 August 2005
5/10
Author: movieman_kev from United States

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Jim Van Bebber's short about the true life story Gary Lauwers murder by Ricky Kasso. In the film Ricky (Van Bebber once again) is a devil worshiping drug dealing loser. But because he supplies acid to his "friends", he's the head of his particular group of equally feeble minded people. When Ricky feels Gary stole drugs from him, he along with another member of his crew kill him in a horrific, unsettling manner. I found this film to be a tad unsettling and pretty well put together for an amateur effort. I wish I''d have seen "Ricky 6:, so I could compare the two, but alas that film still alludes me.This 19 minute short film can be found on Side B of the Synapse Special edition DVD of "Deadbeat at Dawn". One interesting side note, I've found is the real life Ricky supposedly spent some time with his friends at the real life Amityville House. Now that's bizarre.

My Grade: C

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2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Rather shocking horror short., 24 October 2004
7/10
Author: HumanoidOfFlesh from Chyby, Poland

"My Sweet Satan" is based on a real-life murder/suicide case where a dangerous drug dealer took a teenager out into the woods,got him high on LSD,accused him of stealing money,tortured him and stabbed him to death whilst screaming "Say you love Satan!".After this sickening event his friend stomped the boy's head to the pulp."My Sweet Satan" is a pretty gross little horror short.There is a hanging,a closeup nipple piercing and extremely brutal head stomping.Jim Van Bebber is fairly convincing as a creepy drug dealer and Mike Moore is okay as his whiny victim.This disturbing short is clearly not as good as Van Bebber's masterpiece "The Manson Family",but if you enjoy low-budget independent horror you can't miss it.7 out of 10.

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2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Very strong depiction of Satan worshippers, 13 July 2002
9/10
Author: Bogey Man from Finland

Jim Van Bebber's short film My Sweet Satan (1994) is supposedly based on real life character, who committed a horrible murder, was then sentenced to prison, where he finally killed himself by hanging. Director Van Bebber plays Ricky Kasslin, the main character, who is young fellow who listens to heavy metal, has one of the ugliest hair cuts ever, and acts like some animal, and believes that Satan is his Master and he loves Satan the most.

This film really makes me wonder why this kind of things happen. Those Satan worshippers are depicted miserable, but dedicated lost persons and souls, who find a meaning to their lives by worshipping and praising the Satan, the most evil thing imaginable. I think this film definitely doesn't promote Satanism, since the final phrase Ricky's friend says in prison is so underlining, and tells the opinion of writer/director.

This shortie has some very interesting cinematic elements, most notably the soundtrack which consists of different metal bands, but also very menacing sounds and moans which are played also backwards and create very ominous atmosphere and a feeling of evil and pure wickedness. Also, different kinds of camera techniques add to the atmosphere and the film is very great in its elements and visual power.

The infamous ending is very disturbing and graphic, and the whole short film is full of violent and off putting imagery like actual body piercing, blood and terror, but the last murder is the worst, and that murder finally led the main character to prison and suicide. The suicide is also very relentlessly and realistically depicted, so this film is definitely not nice to watch. The film is important since this madness really exists in the world and this film just shows some facts and asks couple of questions without moralizing. I liked this very much and appreciate the cinematic talent of Van Bebber and give this 9/10. This little film is not likely to be easily forgotten once experienced.

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2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
"I take drugs and worship Satan", 13 March 2000
8/10
Author: yamaelle (yamaelle@hotmail.com) from Versailles, France

"My Sweet Satan" is the story ( in 20 minutes ) of Ricky's life. Ricky, played by Jim Van Bebber himself, is a satanist who spends his time listening to hard-rock ( mainly Sepultura ), taking drugs (marihuana, acids, LSD, breathing helium... ) and trying to convince his friends that Satan is the Master. I won't tell how, but Ricky end up suicided in a cell.

The movie is interesting, not really for the story, but for all the experiments we happen to see in less than 20 minutes : Ricky's haircut, with all the drugs, long-haired people drinking, killing, sacrificing animals, throwing over... such a nice atmosphere! Through "My Sweet Satan", we see what the word 'underground' means -a lot of ideas, but with a very modest budget. And we also see here that it was the beginning of his career - although the result is quite cool. Highly recommanded for the jilted generation, at least interesting for everybody, but I keep thinking "Roadkill"(1994) and "Deadbeat at Dawn" are better.

7/10

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Absolutely brilliant, a must for any horror buff., 12 May 2005
10/10
Author: Swaz

Absolutely brilliant, a must for any horror buff. There's no other way to describe this horrifying short. Although this film is a short you really get a feel for what the characters are about and get an insight into what is going on in Ricky's head, which is unusual in a film of this length. Utterly gruesome in its depiction of the drug fuelled murder the viewer is left with a real feeling of anxiety and awe, not a strange combination if your an avid Van Bebber fan. The filming style gives a gritty and edgy feel to the film which adds to the overall turmoil of the piece. Whether a Van Bebber fan or not this is definitely a film worth watching and is one of my personal favourites.

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awesome., 26 December 2002
Author: hauntme_666 (hauntme_666@yahoo.com) from Hoquiam, WA

I think this movie is awesome. It is pretty funny how they try so hard to keep the name of Satan respected when them themselves are doing disrespectful acts. I thought it had a very creative sick and twisted end to this film. But those kids have taken one to many drugs if they think that is what Satan really wants them to do. Free doses!!!!

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2 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
I think this goes without saying: NOT for the weak of heart, 12 June 2001
Author: hamburger

I would consider myself pretty jaded when it comes to extremely violent/disturbing type films but when I watched MY SWEET SATAN today I was completely blown away. It's a short film (about 20 mins.) and stars underground horror-action director Jim Van Bebber as Ricky Kasslin who is a character based on a (supposedly) true incident. It's nothing more than doped up, heavy metal white trash kids who worship Satan and crucify chickens. Sounds like family entertainment, eh? The "stomp" ending really had me gagging and is quite possibly the most intense, sick, and disturbing scene I've ever had the (dis)pleasure of watching! Oh yeah, and talk about that up-close (real) nipple piercing! I was practically squirming in my chair! I don't think I'll be popping this back into the DVD for quite some time....

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0 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Low-Budget Garbage With A Few Cool Gore Scenes - AND MULLETS!!!, 26 January 2006
4/10
Author: EVOL666 from St. John's Abortion Clinic

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

MY SWEET Satan is a low-budget short directed by and starring Jim Van Bebber (DEADBEAT AT DAWN). This outing has atrocious acting, and is really only good for laughing at all the horrible haircuts on display...

The story is about a Satan-loving jerk-off (Van Bebber)who kills one of his friends for stealing drug money from him. That's it. But I guess you're not gonna get TOO much plot in a 20 minute "film"...

Other than a few decent gore scenes - which are really the ONLY reason for watching this one - MY LITTLE Satan is a dud. ALL of the characters are completely annoying, and the Satan "side-plot" is stupid and unnecessary as it's never really explained or built on. Give DEADBEAT AT DAWN a shot instead, or hopefully you already got the Synapse release of DEADBEAT AT DAWN, and MY LITTLE Satan was on the extras...4/10 - only for the head-stomp scene...

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0 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
A shocking conclusion but not much else., 27 February 2001
6/10
Author: eegah-3 (eegah@hotmail.com) from Minneapolis, MN

This is the kind of film that Harmony Korine later became more successful doing...that is, chronicling the lives of bored suburban white trash Satan worshippers on dope. Van Bebber knows his milieu and does what he can in 19 minutes but it's really just buildup to a conclusion you won't soon forget.

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