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From:George DiCenzo , Steve Railsback , Nancy Wolfe , Marilyn Burns , Christina Hart , Warner Brothers , Tom Gries , Warner Home Video ,
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2 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Very dated, 2007-10-29
After reading Vincent Bugliosi's spectacular book, I couldn't wait to see this movie (how I missed both on the first go-round I'll never understand). As with most very good books, especially highly-detailed ones, Helter Skelter's reduction to a movie can be painful to watch. First, being a TV-movie, it's production values are marginal. Most scenes take place in non-descript offices, just like a Dragnet episode... as a matter of fact, the level of writing, acting and directing is only a fraction better than most Dragnet episodes. Everything is very by-the-numbers (don't forget to include this, don't forget to include that), and Steve Railsback plays Manson bug-eyed, as if he were plugged into a wall socket. It's almost as if he based his entire performance on one very popular picture of Manson--which by no means is representative of the many faces he actually had. Also, to hear Bugliosi tell it, Manson was a crafty con-man and jailhouse lawyer, but we are given no sense of any intelligence (and, therefore, no real sense of threat) in Manson in the film... he's just a bull-goose looney. What bothered me most was that no attempt was made to go outside Bugliosi's point of view. We never see Manson actually living with his people, indoctrinating them... there was no real sense of what it was like to be living in the Family, just silent montages behind voice-overs. In scene after scene, including the murder scenes, we are told what happens instead of just being shown what happens, as if we weren't very bright. The movie you imagine while reading the incredible book will make you feel like Francis Ford Coppola. It's hard to imagine how anyone could take that book and get this movie. Didn't anyone read it?
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Helter Skelter, 2007-10-17
I have seen this many times - always cut up. This is much more gripping without commercials.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
You can feed the world with my Garbage Dump..., 2007-08-28
After 33 years since this movie first came out, it still has the power to scare the hell out of you!
Steve Railsback stars as a picture-perfect "Man's Son." Charlie's whole trip is laid out here, from the Creepy Crawls to him on a jail bunk, with shaven head singing: "You can feed the world with my Garbage Dump." And the hate stare he gives at the end is the scariest part of the whole movie!
Of all the websites out there now seeking to glorify Manson and make him a urban legend, this movie will ground you with it's "Dragnet" style portrayal of the savage animalistic murders and the three ring circus court proceedings to prosecute that animal and his Garbage People.
Like in the old television series "Dragnet,"..."Just the facts, ma-am!"
There seems to be in the public mind a battle over this version of Helter Skelter and the 2004 TV movie of the same name. I think they compliment each other. This one tells of how it was done and how the "family" were convicted. The new version gets you more into the mind of Manson and WHY it was done and WHY young college student runaways became robotic murders on the "suggestions" of Manson.
Interesting enough, of the major killers, all of them except Manson now recognize the horror of what they have done and take responsibility upon themselves. Of the original "Family," only Squeaky, Sandy and Bobby Beausoleil are unrepentant and as hard core as always.
For those out there who look upon Manson as a role model, WAKE UP! There are millions of others who went through hell as a kid who became a inspiration of good to the world! Manson deliberately heaped all his bad karma upon himself!
"That sums it up in one big lump!"
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Great movie, 2007-08-23
I was 16 years old when Charlie and the family went on their crazy murder spree in 1969. It still gives me goose bumps that people can really be that crazy. The made for TV rendition was really quite accurate and the casting was on target all the way around with kudos to the dude who played Manson. The key word is Authentic.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
THE movie to buy on the Manson murder case, 2007-07-20
I had seen this movie in 1979 before they put it out on VHS and cut out parts of the movie. The DVD has the full version of the movie on it and I don't know why they took those parts out when they put it on VHS. I've seen other movies on this case and hands down, this is the best of the entire bunch. The other actors I've seen that portrayed Manson, as hard as they tried just didn't resemble him as much as Steve Railsback did. He was perfect in this part. He even had the same look in his eyes. So forget the other Manson movies. If you are interested in the story of the Manson murders,this is the movie to buy. It was about time they released it on DVD. Worth every penny.
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