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The Manson family and the horror of the 1969 crime, seen through the eyes of the family. Read more

Starring	Marcelo Games, Marc Pitman, Leslie Orr, Sage Stallone
Director	Jim Van Bebber
Genres	Horror, Thriller

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- A film begun in the late 1980s and shown as a work in progress in the late 90s in the hope of raising the money to finish it, which was not managed until 2003. The approach ranges from rough-edged semi-documentary to the style of underground movies and lo
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:43
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  This has got to rate as one of the worst films of all times. If you have a craving to find out more about the evil man called Charlie MANSON see Helter Skelter... read more »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - a customer
  - Surrey
  - 06 Feb 2005 at 19:12
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  Worst film ever
  
  After reading one of Manson's biographies, i was looking forward to watching a film about the Family. Unfortunately, this one turned out to be one big joke... read more »
  
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  - Bolton
  - 26 Aug 2010 at 00:21
- - 2
  - 0
  Ropey but effective in parts
  
  This isn't as bad as some of the other reviewers would have you believe. It isn't worth four stars, but I thought I would try and get the general star ... read more »
  
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- - Rummun
  - 9 reviews
  - London
  - 12 Feb 2010 at 13:09
- - 0
  - 0
  Pfft, not good viewing
  
  I read a book about the Manson family and was interested in watching a film about the story. The film gave no further insight and totally focussed on the sexual... read more »
  
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  - Stirling
  - 27 Jul 2009 at 16:30
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  THE MANSON FAMILY
  
  WORST FILM EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!!!!!
  
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- - dancingnikki
  - 6 reviews
  - Swansea
  - 28 Apr 2009 at 16:43
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  - 0
  Disturbing
  
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  Alot of naked people having sex and doing lots drugs in the open, not my thing, although I did watch the film all the way through as wanted to see what it was ... read more »
  
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- - eternal12
  - 53 reviews
  - Croydon
  - 03 Apr 2009 at 13:15
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  - 0
  Wasn't keen...
  
  This movie really seemed to drag - wouldn't really recommend this one.
  
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  - Aberdeen
  - 15 Jan 2009 at 13:00
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  the manson family
  
  this film was rubbish,very dissapointed,i hoped it would be a horror.
  
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  - Glasgow
  - 26 Oct 2008 at 01:27
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  werid and bloody
  
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  i liked this film i thought it was a good insight to the murders of the manson family i dont no alot about the real murders so cant comment on how accurate it ... read more »
  
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- - cocanutt
  - 28 reviews
  - Cardiff
  - 20 Aug 2008 at 13:23
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  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  
  Had no idea what it was about and didn't care either, i have had migraine's more pleasurable!
  
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- - mumble
  - 51 reviews
  - Bristol
  - 16 Aug 2008 at 22:53
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  Poweful pseudo-documentary
  
  I very much enjoyed this sordid mess of violence and sex interspersed with interviews and hippy pseudo-mysticism. An era was successfully conjured up here and ... read more »
  
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  - London
  - 07 May 2008 at 11:36
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  This has got to rate as one of the worst films of all times. If you have a craving to find out more about the evil man called Charlie MANSON see Helter Skelter... read more »
  
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  - a customer
  - Surrey
  - 06 Feb 2005 at 19:12
- - 6
  - 1
  Psychodelic Art Fest
  
  At first I was confused into thinking I had just rented a university film project. The film was a mass of psychodelic drug induced images of the seventies. It ... read more »
  
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- - keiron
  - Lancs
  - 23 Nov 2004 at 10:42
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  Charlie's worth the wait...
  
  The is the slickest, most mature and most watchable of Jim van Beber's films to date. Watching it for the third time, I had a similar feeling to watching ... read more »
  
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- - Lucy Swan
  - Edinburgh
  - 10 Dec 2004 at 14:15
- - 4
  - 0
  Bit on the wierd side
  
  An ok film, in a commentary style flick, no real story line. The ending is a real disappointment.
  
  Not one to watch again.
  
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- - daveyboy3
  - Essex
  - 15 Nov 2004 at 08:53
- - 4
  - 2
  MANSON ......SHOCK HORROR
  
  I thought this film would be a great re-telling of the horrible events that ended the sommer of love in such a bloodbath......instead I found the plot almost ... read more »
  
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- - steviemac13
  - devon
  - 14 Nov 2004 at 11:56
- - 3
  - 0
  Woeful
  
  one of the worst films I have ever sat through...truly painstaking...avoid at all costs.
  
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- 183211
- - a customer
  - London
  - 09 Dec 2005 at 11:29
- - 2
  - 0
  Manson Murder Mayhem
  
  Van Bebber's film of two halves - first half full of sex and LSD, second half - extreme violence and murder. The violence is shocking and brutal, but so in ... read more »
  
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- - TimJ
  - Kent
  - 11 Jan 2005 at 13:06
- - 2
  - 0
  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... read more »
  
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- - Melon
  - East Sussex
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 01:00
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  God Awful
  
  I rented this out because I was interested in the murders, and Charles Manson having read the book Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi. But please, who ever gave... read more »
  
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- - Ryan Kent
  - Salford, Manchester
  - 14 Apr 2005 at 21:14
- - 2
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  Manson ! eees alright !
  
  A bit twisted but good gore soaked violence, not sure how true to life the events actually are but still well worth a watch.
  
  Some stomach churning ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Just another failing English town
  - 18 Aug 2005 at 11:56

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