The Manson Family Massacre

Just a bad movie. Time jumping like crazy with no real story, completely made up other than the name Manson.

A series of bloody fictional murders & nothing about the real crimes until a series of informational screens before the credits. A lot of mystical nonsense, I guess about a woman who bought one of the murder houses decades later wondering if it is haunted in some way. Confusing when it keeps jumping time. When a movie title appears to be about historical events you expect at least some degree of accuracy even though in Hollywood it usually seems verboten to portray things just the way they happened. I watched two movies about the BTK killer. Having lived in Wichita through all this, I was very familiar with the facts. One was unusually accurate with the lead looking & sounding so much like Rader it was creepy. The other was like this. Just used the BTK name & a series of completely made up gory crimes. I don't know why I didn't just turn off this film. Maybe it was just such a train wreck I couldn't look away. I don't review mediocre series & movies. Only the great ones & the real stinkers. Probably seen worse movies; just can't think of one right now!

This film could've been an easy 5 or 6 stars but the plot was all jumbled and I don't think the separate three time lines worked in the end. If it had just stayed with the manson part of the story it would have been better off. In the end im only giving this three stars because I liked the actor that played manson. Also lee bane is in this and he was alright to.

For a movie with Massacre in the title you expect a lot of violence going in and this delivers on that with a plethora of brutal stabbings. Some are very disturbing because they just go on and on and knowing it really happened to real people makes for grim viewing. For an obviously low budget movie there are pretty solid performances and everyone looks the part but the story does change the known version of the real case and includes a lot of conspiracy theories as part of the plot here. The story is told in two different time periods and there is a lot of new age stuff in both which borders on pretentious at times. But after seeing countless Manson movies playing out the exact same way I welcomed a different take on this subject.

This latest retread of the manson murders is more interested in following a musician living in the cielo drive house years after the tate murders with just a few long flashbacks to the familiar events of 1969. the film moves at a dreamy pace for the most part and seems to trying to ape polanski films like repulsion and the tenant but then come outbursts of brutal violence which skirt the borders of good taste. the story is like two films thrown together one about a musician losing her mind and the other a period biopic so the tone is all over the map sometimes. but some good acting and convincing violence prevent this latest manson offering from slipping into total mediocrity.