...grotesquely violent, but shouldn’t a film about the Manson atrocities disgust us?
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The Manson Family (2004)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:22
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.1/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 22, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: August 9 & 10, 1969. This date annually marks the anniversary of two nights of murder and mayhem historically called the Manson murders. Since that time the public and the media have never ceased... [More]
Director: Jim Van Bebber
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Reviews for The Manson Family
Van Bebber's film is tough, difficult, sporadically brilliant cinema, to be sure, and I doubt he'd have had it any other way.
10/31/04
Have no illusions: this is exploitation filmmaking at its most insane, deranged, and unforgiving.
09/25/04
There's no real journalism here, just the sort of appalling revisionism that can turn a bloodbath into a beach party.
10/29/04
Top CriticMore work goes into mimicking the oversaturated colors, shrill organ music and goopy gore of Grade-C 1970s horror films in a lurid yet predictable stew of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
10/30/04
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10/30/04
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09/25/04
It has an undeniable power and effect, but be sure you understand what you are getting yourself into.
10/22/04
Top CriticHarrowing and imaginatively made.
10/21/04
The Manson Family is an undeniable accomplishment, not only for Van Bebber's temerity but for his unapologetic insistence on telling this lurid tale in the lurid style he believed it deserved.
10/22/04
Top CriticIf it's hard to watch, its crude power is also somewhat mesmerizing.
10/22/04
It's one great, blood-curdling Halloween treat.
10/29/04
It makes contemporary gore flicks such as House Of 1000 Corpses look like Bergman.
09/25/04
The film lures you inside its murder-with-a-smile extremes.
10/27/04
Top CriticYou feel sick and indicted by it--and that's exactly how you ought to feel.
05/10/05
This truly is one great-looking film whose like will never come our way again.
09/25/04
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12/06/05
a true feast of flesh made even worse on an unrated DVD
06/03/05
It seems little more than the heir to Survive!, The Zodiac Killer and other unsavory 1970s horror cheapies that tried to turn a quick buck on real-life tragedy.
10/28/04
Represents some kind of crazed commitment of its own to slobbering cinema of the most relentless, unpleasant sort.
10/29/04
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