By Lawrence Merrick - A first ever movie/documentry outside the courtroom
By Lawrence Merrick - A first ever movie/documentry outside the courtroom
In past installments of Serial Killer Cinema, we’ve looked at narrative films both directly based on Charles Manson and his homicidal hippie cult The Manson Family, as well as movies conceptually inspired by the sordid, blood-soaked saga.
Manson has, of course, provided infinite grist for documentary makers, as well. Most nonfiction portrayals and examinations of Charlie, the Family, and their infamous 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders have tended to be TV news productions.
The following quartet of documentaries delves deep into the Manson mystique as only a proper motion picture can. Beware: some heady trips lay ahead.