Cheap and very, very nasty

This is filmed in a style that is part 60's acid trip, part faux-documentary (with computer generated scratches added to a lot of the footage), and part 70's/80's full on video nasty splatter. It is definately very salacious, very exploitative and very, very gory, coming across in places like an accurate spoof/homage of a Herscell Gordon Lewis flick (with some seemingly deliberately amateurish acting and staging that looks home movieish). Oddly enough though this approach does fit the subject matter, capturing the right atmosphere of stoned illogic that led to the killings and the juvenile nature of the obsessive cult mentality that still surrounds them. As such, although a bad movie, it still gets 3 stars. Having said that, the director does seriously screw up the ending by making it appear that Manson's prophecising of the children keeping the killing going is coming true. It adds another sour note to a film that already leaves a bad taste in the mouth. It's one of the nastiest movies out.