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Such a frustrating disappointment

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Stupid and without context, if you enjoy watching a film with poor quality and crappy music playing over everything, then this is the film for you.Have you ever watched a film with no dialog? What about a film with no dialog, with terrible music and completely random scenes happening? One moment people are having sex, the next moment there's a black dude in a suit waving at you.Completely stupid.

Being no expert on Charles Manson or his murderous cult, I cannot vouch for the factual accuracy of Jim Van Bebber's The Manson Family. However, having seen more than my fair share of nihilistic, low-budget, ultra-violent horror, I can safely say that this film is one hell of a messed up piece of film-making: a raw, violent, orgiastic, drug-fuelled, psychedelic hell-ride quite befitting of it's subject matter.Van Bebber's visually arresting account of the events leading up to the infamous Tate/LaBianca murders is filmed in a pseudo-documentary style that is highly reminiscent of Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, and like that film, it cleverly utilises a variety of film stock, post-production filters, and gritty editing tricks to help convey the unstable, acid-fuelled, collective state-of-mind shared by the enigmatic Charlie and his hippie acolytes. The result is harsh, uncompromising cinema, made all the more unsettling by the fact that what is being shown actually happened.But Van Bebber doesn't stop there: by inter-cutting his reconstructed footage and faux interviews with a contemporary parallel story, in which a modern day 'family' continue the killing, the director also manages to pass comment on the the ever popular 'Cult of Charlie', which has resulted in Manson's likeness becoming a recognisable and marketable pop-culture icon.I don't think that ignorant kids deserve to be shot for glamourising a mass murderer on their T-shirt, but it's food for thought nonetheless.

I just watched this movie last night, and wow! I have read several books about Manson, and was surprised at how this movie mostly stuck to the facts, and still created a dramatic and frightening film about the disintegration of the Family, and the murders that took place over two nights in 1969. The direction is excellent and the editing is top-notch for a film with this budget. I was reminded of Natural Born Killers throughout many sequences in this film. I cannot believe that this film hasn't garnered more attention.The numerous depictions of drug use and sexual freedom are very realistic and accurate. The hallucinatory scenes are a visual feast. I give this movie a well deserved 10 because it never slows down, and will surely become a cult-classic for fans of disturbing and/or violent cinema. Some of the scenes of blood and gore seem fake, but real death scenes often look just as fake because they are so in-your-face with the gruesomeness and violence. This film takes no prisoners and fans of violent horror will certainly be satisfied.A warning to the squeamish..this film is vile, bloody, and chock full of sex, drugs, rape, nudity and very graphic violence.

Many years in the making this is, if ultimately rather sad and depressing with a confused ending, an involving documentary style depiction of what life may well have been like within the notorious 'family'. At the beginning there is a fair mix of youngsters held together largely by sex and quasi religion. Largely it's the girls that talk of Jesus whilst disrobing and the men of, f***ing. Fuelled by dope and acid they go their merry way for a while but then interestingly Charlie reckons a mix of blood and death will keep the group alive. And so it does but always of course spiralling hell bent towards the inevitable, 'helter skelter'. The best and worst of the hippie movement is depicted here in what was essentially it's death throws. Bebber makes considerable play on the racist slant to the 'family' belief structure and their fear of a black takeover, none of which have I been aware of before. Very interesting with lots of gore and bare flesh with much emphasis on the meaning/meaningless of words, gullibility and the mighty power of the promise of sex and violence.