The Manson Family

Year: 2003
Genre: Thriller/Horror

Cast:
Marcelo Games
Marc Pitman
Leslie Orr

Director:
Jim Van Bebber

Producers:
Michael King
Jim VanBebber
Carl Daft
David Gregory

Synopsis:
Charles Manson and his “family” were the notorious cult who killed the 60’s. Jim Van Bebber’s epic independent feature paints the most accurate and uncompromising picture of the most infamous cult of all time and the crimes that shook the world.

It starts with a group of innocent youths forming a commune, smoking pot, dropping acid, making love and making music. But when their leader, Charlie, is rejected as an artist and money starts to become tight, the kids have to turn around their lifestyle in order to survive. The acid trips become darker and the drug-induced rhetoric turns violent. Charlie believes himself to be a Christ figure and starts to get a tighter and tighter grip over his followers. The cult will stop at nothing to send their message of evil to the world.

Former high-school football star, Tex, decides to rip-off a drug lord in order to gain some income. But the drug-lord won’t go away and eventually Charlie puts a bullet in his head and thus the first blood is spilled. Next, two family members brutally murder a rich associate but they fail to cover their tracks and one family member winds up in jail. In order to make the incarceration seem like a mistake, Charlie plans to commit similar bloody crimes to make it seem like the killers are still on the loose. Then, over two nights, members of the cult indulge in arguably the most sadistic murders in American history, leading to a major media trial and the creation of the 60’s blackest icon: Manson. Just as Woodstock, long hair and bell bottoms were symbols of the love generation, so the bearded face, swastika tattoo and the Tate/La Bianca slayings symbolize the era’s poison.