The Helter-Skelter Murders
by Frank Howard
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Actor: Brian Klinknett, Debbie Duff, Erica Bigelow, Linda Van Compernolle, Paula ShannonDirector: Frank Howard
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Frank Howard
Editor: Frank Howard
Producer: Wade Williams
Writer: Duke Howze
Writer: J.J. Wilke Jr.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 81 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Image Entertainment
DVD Reviews of The Helter-Skelter Murders
DVD Review: a period curiosity... ultimately irritating
Summary: 2 Stars
The interest of this film is that it was made at the time of the Manson trial, so all the (interminable) footage of contemporary hippy events is totally authentic. Unfortunately, as it announces at the start, it was entirely derived from newspaper reports about the Tate/LaBianca murders, not from court transcripts or (because it hadn't yet been written) Bugliosi's book Helter Skelter, so the court scenes are minimal and sketchy, and the bulk of the film's running time is taken up with hippy concerts and dream-like re-enactments of Sharon Tate (not that she - or any other characters - are referred to by name) in Louis XV period dress which feel like filler in a very short (80-odd minute) film. What is there is often wrong. For instance Susan Atkins (Sadie Mae Glutz) is shown doing no more than holding Sharon Tate while 'Tex' Watson stabs her. This was Sadie Mae's original story, but by the time of the trial she had confessed to various cell-mates that she had stabbed Tate herself & got a sexual thrill from it. I get the feeling this film was hacked together very fast so as to make an exploitative buck at the time. There doesn't seem much reason to watch it now. Plusses are the grainy black & white style & morbid atmosphere, and the fact that it was made basically as the trial was going on. Oh, it says on the box two Manson songs will be heard. And then at the start of the film it says only one will - Mechanical Man (very weird and not especially good, by the way) - but that's Exploitation!
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