Manson Family, The

USA 2003, 95 minutes
Dir. Jim Van Bebber
Rating: [R18]
Genres: Cult, Suspense/Crime / Serial Killers

Topics: Period 1960s.

Aroview: Psychedelic biopic of the notorious hippie anti-icon Charles Manson, who gathered a cult following around him in the late 1960s and programmed them to perform ritualistic murders.

Originally completed in 1997, this film has taken many years to find distribution, but is disturbingly original. As visualised by US underground dir. Van Bebber, the odyssey of this odd 'family' is conveyed in a stew of LSD-imagery, trash-movie casting, faked interview footage and graphically nasty violence. Sensitive viewers - Beware!