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 The Manson Family (DVD)
Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller / Director: Jim Van Bebber / Actors: Marcelo Games, Marc Pitman ... / DVD released 21 February, ... more  The Manson Family (DVD) ... 2005 at Starz Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL / The Manson family and the horror of the 1969 crime, seen through the eyes of the family.Newest Review: ... they were, and he succeeds admirably. (Of course there are issues of morality and good taste involved in the depiction of ... more ... real-life murders, especially when the families of the victims are still alive; the film kind of side steps those.) There’s no Beatles music on the soundtrack, predictably enough, but there are a lot of songs by the actual Manson Family, which are terrible in an entertaining kind of way.
What these scenes lack is a convincing sense of escalating insanity. They don’t account for how a group of mostly middle-class kids who’d dropped out were transformed into a group of serial killers. Part of this is no doubt down to the ...more |
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The Manson Family (DVD): Family Values (1573 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 11.03.06 (Very useful, 141 readings)
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Fifteen years in the making, and finally released in 2003, this film is a rather grim re-telling of the Manson Family murders of 1969. Directed by Jim VanBebber, the film achieved near-legendary status among fans of ‘alternative’ and ‘extreme’ horror cinema. A rough cut was shown under the title ‘Charlie’s Family’ in 1997, and this complete version is, as far as I can tell, the same as the earlier version, but with better sound and picture quality. It’s very much a film of two halves. The Sixties scenes, in which Manson and his gang of killer hippies drop out, take drugs, hump each other and murder people, are very impressive. The modern-day framing narrative ...
