The Manson Family (Unrated 2-Disc Special Edition)
by Van Bebber, Jim
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Actor: Carl Day, Marita Clarke, Maureen Allisse, Michelle Briggs, Tom Burns (III)Director: Van Bebber, Jim
Brand: MPI HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Dark Sky Films
Product features:
- If you think you know the story of the Manson Family, you are dead wrong. Director Jim VanBebber (Deadbeat at Dawn) delivers an uncompromising snapshot of this cult of personality, hell- bent on executing the brutal vision of its leader, Charles Manson. On a ranch outside of L.A., the dream of the Love Generation is perverting into something evil. Has what was once an oasis of free love and acid t
DVD Reviews of The Manson Family (Unrated 2-Disc Special Edition)
DVD Review: One of the most *beeped* up movie I've ever seen
Summary: 5 Stars
Holy *beep* are the first words that come to mind! It's one of the most *beeped* up movies I have ever seen! I thought that it was a normal movie, but the best way to describe it is to say that it's not even a movie, it's just insanity! It doesn't really have a plot, most of the times you just see random bits of the Manson family's life, mostly them being naked (lots and lots of big tits), having orgies (one time while drinking dog blood and it's pretty disturbing), being high on acid and killing people in gory ways (the last 20 minutes or so are very gory!)! The other times you see them (the actors, not the real persons) a couple of years later talking about how life with Charles Manson was and there's a subplot taking places in the present about teens or young adults who worship Charles Manson and wants to be just like the Manson's family. The whole thing is really out of the ordinary and stylish and sometimes you almost feel like you're high on acid! I'm sure that it's far from accurate, but some parts are accurate.
Recommended.
DVD Review: An Extremely Well Made Exploitation Film
Summary: 4 Stars
If you don't believe me then compare The Manson Family to any of those serial killer/crime films produced by Tartan Video and you'll see the difference.
Those films have absolutely no filmmaking style. You get basic editing, basic camera work and no evidence the filmmaker has any signature style at all.
The Manson Family is visually a dazzling film and it's disjointed chaotic look goes along way in helping depict the insanity which enveloped the family members during the times leading up to those two horrible nights in 1969.
Jim Van Bebber probably spent alot of time studying Robert Hendrickson's 1973 documentary Manson. He apes the psychedelic feel of that movie and actually quotes scenes and words from that film when he shows the girls on the garbage runs and also Lyn Fromme and Sandra Good sitting on the table with guns saying that "snitches will be taken care of"
Van Bebber also appears to have taken some cues from Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (a film that features Manson as an inspiration to Mickey & Mallory) in regards to the directors usage of quick cut montage scenes interspersing images from the past, future, "stock" and "newsreel" footage as well as interviews with the protagonists.
The result of all this is a very effective film which does a better job than any other film (including any real life documentary) of depicting the Manson Family and their continuing fascination for so many people today.
The film reaches greatness in the mock documentary parts framed by present day interviews of the family members in prison each giving their own, often contrasting views on the events and who did what exactly.
The film is less successful in some of the more drawn out scenes where the lack of budget and inexperienced actors become more of a liability. The present day scenes with the industrial junkie kids are confusing at first but by the end I understood why Van Bebber included them in the movie and they made total sense.
Also, with the 2 disk edition you get two fascinating documentaries which are must viewing for anyone interested in independent filmmaking.
Great value at &9.99
DVD Review: "The Real Story" whatever.
Summary: 1 Stars
I had heard about this and other movies about Manson and wanted to check them out for more information about the case. This movie, claims to be, the real story told from the family point of view. This is a joke. The interviews are staged to look real, the murder scene with Folger was a joke. If you slit someones throat they are not going to colapse and then get back up and walk out to the front yard before they die after loosing what seemed to be a couple gallons of blood. The stabbing of most of the bodies is just stupid considering that Jay was shot once and stabbed 7 times but in this movie I swear that Tex stabbed him 50 times, Parent was only shot not cut according to published autopsy reports and to stab a person in the same place so many times like Hinman when the autopsy report clearly does not depict that is crazy. To top it off to put in your updates that the US Supreme Court abolished the death penalty when it was the California SC under Rose Byrd in 1972 just goes to prove how stupid this director/producer is. If the movie was claiming to be just for entertainment fine. But when you depict it as accurate and from the view of the family you look like a damn idiot. Do your homework if your going to make claims.DVD Review: classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Conventional wisdom about the Manson family: Charlie the madman took a bunch of innocent young drifters in 1969 and fed them mountins of
L S D. He was able to convince them of the nobility of his plans, and the girls commited the Tate-Labianca murders on his orders that August.
This has been the story line since LA District Atternoy Vincent Bolgiosi tried the case in 1970 and got convictions. And it made sense--Manson masterminded these killings but the girls carried them out. Bolgisoi needed to prove a conspirisy to convict Manson.
The Manson Family, this film, has a different theroy. These girls were sadistic little wenches to begin with, and the sex and drugs and nonsence 60s rap Charlie fed them only fuled their sociopatic impules. Further, the August killings were not just spawned by hippie underbelly madness. Before Tate Labianca, Manson had killed a Black Panther in a money deal gone wrong, and the murders that summer were part of a scheme to throw authorites off the trail. According to the film, the family also gang raped the wife of the land owner where they had set up camp.
Taken at face value, this changes the implications of the Tate-Labianca butchery. If the family can be seen more as a criminal enterprise then a mystified hippie cult, the real cruelity of their crimes can be viewed in a much starker light.
But director Jim Van Beeber takes this a step further: the film also deals with the Manson acolytes who continued to follow him into the 90s. Here, these young killers in punk rock drag kill a TV reporter working on a documentry about Manson. This reporter summerizes the point of the film, early, saying 'It is all Charlie, Charlie, Charlie. What about the kids who put the knives in the victims."
During these 90s scenes, there is virtually no dialouge between the memebrs of the Manson posee. Implied is that there is little thought put behind their worship of Manson or their own crimes. Their criminality also seems to feed on freekoid sex, drugs, and out and out wierdness that contains no reason or subtance.
Sixties or Nineties, the Manson Family documents the crimes in graphic, horrific fashion. This is probably the most violent film I have ever seen, and I do not go out of my way to avoid violent movies. But, the violence is not gratuitous- to Vanbeeber's credit, he uses the gore of the Manson crimes to deflate the icon myth of Manson.
This set also contains a bonus disc on why this film took almost 20 years to get made. The film making process is fascinating, and so are the stories of the actors--who often worked for free to make the film.
DVD Review: Manson Family
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the movie that was on TV years ago and not shown to many times. I can remember watching this when I was little. It's hard to believe that people could be brain washed so bad and follow someone like all those people did. Makes you stop and think a little bit about your life and where you are heading.
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If you think you know the story of the Manson Family, you are dead wrong. Director Jim VanBebber (Deadbeat at Dawn) delivers an uncompromising snapshot of this cult of personality, hell- bent on executing the brutal vision of its leader, Charles Manson. On a ranch outside of LA the dream of the "Love Generation" is perverting into something evil. What was once an oasis of free love and acid trips has become ground zero for a madman's paranoid visions. An average group of kids, the "Family", become engulfed in a delusional world where torment and slaughter is considered the path to righteousness. The Manson Family is a dizzying, rapid-fire vision of the sex and violence that unifies the misguided group, and at the direction of their leader, ends in a brutal spree leaving seven people dead in a 48 hours. You've seen the story through the eyes of the law. Now witness it through the eyes of THE MANSON FAMILY.General DVDs
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