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Summary: Helter Skelter Murders
Review: I was very disappointed in this version of Helter Skelter.I would not reccomend buying this particular video.BORING!!
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Summary: Read the book instead!
Review: Incomprehensible and disjointed "story" about the Manson Murders. Film gets one star for a somewhat convincing recreation of the murders, but other than that it's all downhill. I was right outside the house where the murders occurred early in 1993, and the house used here is completely different. Dust off your copy of "Helter Skelter" instead.
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Summary: There really are still Manson freaks.
Review: It looks as if "Dark Angel" (great name, yeah right) missed the point as these pro Manson freaks always seem to. First off, how does this movie keep the watcher entertained? It doesn't, all that happens is (in black and white at that) people dancing around to very hard to hear music with an occasional voice over. Then near the end comes the violence. The viewer from Chicago didn't say anything about being "disturbed" by death and violence as any thinking person would be, these Manson people always bring up this argument. What the Chicago viewer said was that this was not the T.V. movie that is most famous and I'll bet what people are actually looking for. But as far as the violence issue that DA brought up most people are interested in it, it shocks us and there is absolutely curiosity about this case and any idiot that acts like there's hypocracy involved obviously is not listening and hearing only what they WAnt to. But viewers, trust me this is not the film you are thinking about. That is called Helter Skelter and is based on the infamous book of the same name. By the way Manson is so over. C'mon.
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Summary: LAMENESS
Review: LAME LAME LAME ! STAY AWAY FROM THIS GARBAGE AT ALL COST! THE PHOTOGRAPHY IS LAME, THE PLOT IS LAME, THE ACTING IS LAME, (the car that Victim Steven Parent was found in was a Rambler NOT a VW BUG!(? ) IN CLOSING, THS "MOVIE" IS NOT WORTH YOUR TIME!
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Summary: People looking for the REAL Movie THIS ISN'T IT!!!
Review: My husband bought this for me when I finished reading the book. He thought it was the movie I had seen bits and pieces of in the early 70's. Well...it isn't! I was terribly disappointed in the incomprehensible crap that's on this video. It was a complete waste of time & money!! I wish that the documentary with Vincent Bugliosi wasn't out of print in the U.S. this one should be out of print!
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Summary: Was hoping they had -5 stars for this one
Review: My wife had shown a bit of interest in the murders after I had brought it up once so I got this video thinking it might be along a more biographical nature of the killings rather than following the movie of 1976, which might give her a better understanding of the actual killings. This video is the epitome of the word crap. I have never had such a waste of time, money and energy as with this. This movie is too bad to even qualify for "what not to put into a movie 101". Do not even waste your time, poor acting, poor cinematography, poor everything, AND they did not even get the facts straight...steer clear.
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Summary: Save Your $$$$$
Review: The best thing about this terrible movie is the packaging it comes in. I'm sure that has been what's drawn viewers to either purchase and or rent it.I would personally rather wait to see the 1976 tele-film re-released to video and Dvd in it's full length instead of the cut down European theatrical version that was released years ago by Key Video.
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Summary: Read the book instead
Review: the best thing about this video is that they use Charles Manson's actual songs that he wrote and sang. It's basically a sloppy re-creation of what happened that terrible night for those unfortunate victims. "Helter Skelter"is a much better film, and very insightful. This actor playing Manson should be [isn't very good] in this version. Worth a look only for the ending murder scenes where they re-create it rather acuratly. But, if your looking for the whole fact based, square one starting story on the Manson Family -skip it.
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Summary: a period curiosity... ultimately irritating
Review: The interest of this film is that it was made at the time of the Manson trial, so all the (interminable) footage of contemporary hippy events is totally authentic. Unfortunately, as it announces at the start, it was entirely derived from newspaper reports about the Tate/LaBianca murders, not from court transcripts or (because it hadn't yet been written) Bugliosi's book Helter Skelter, so the court scenes are minimal and sketchy, and the bulk of the film's running time is taken up with hippy concerts and dream-like re-enactments of Sharon Tate (not that she - or any other characters - are referred to by name) in Louis XV period dress which feel like filler in a very short (80-odd minute) film. What is there is often wrong. For instance Susan Atkins (Sadie Mae Glutz) is shown doing no more than holding Sharon Tate while 'Tex' Watson stabs her. This was Sadie Mae's original story, but by the time of the trial she had confessed to various cell-mates that she had stabbed Tate herself & got a sexual thrill from it. I get the feeling this film was hacked together very fast so as to make an exploitative buck at the time. There doesn't seem much reason to watch it now. Plusses are the grainy black & white style & morbid atmosphere, and the fact that it was made basically as the trial was going on. Oh, it says on the box two Manson songs will be heard. And then at the start of the film it says only one will - Mechanical Man (very weird and not especially good, by the way) - but that's Exploitation!
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Summary: a period curiosity... ultimately irritating
Review: The interest of this film is that it was made at the time of the Manson trial, so all the (interminable) footage of contemporary hippy events is totally authentic. Unfortunately, as it announces at the start, it was entirely derived from newspaper reports about the Tate/LaBianca murders, not from court transcripts or (because it hadn't yet been written) Bugliosi's book Helter Skelter, so the court scenes are minimal and sketchy, and the bulk of the film's running time is taken up with hippy concerts and dream-like re-enactments of Sharon Tate (not that she - or any other characters - are referred to by name) in Louis XV period dress which feel like filler in a very short (80-odd minute) film. What is there is often wrong. For instance Susan Atkins (Sadie Mae Glutz) is shown doing no more than holding Sharon Tate while 'Tex' Watson stabs her. This was Sadie Mae's original story, but by the time of the trial she had confessed to various cell-mates that she had stabbed Tate herself & got a sexual thrill from it. I get the feeling this film was hacked together very fast so as to make an exploitative buck at the time. There doesn't seem much reason to watch it now. Plusses are the grainy black & white style & morbid atmosphere, and the fact that it was made basically as the trial was going on. Oh, it says on the box two Manson songs will be heard. And then at the start of the film it says only one will - Mechanical Man (very weird and not especially good, by the way) - but that's Exploitation!
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