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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790795461
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790795469
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 19, 2004
Running Time: 137 minutes
Sales Rank: 21324
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: May 16, 2004
Editorial Review:
Description:
Jeremy Davies stars as convicted killer Charles Manson in this new television movie based on the true story of the August 1969 Tate/LaBianca murders, as chronicled in the bestselling book Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi. Almost 35 years ago Manson's followers, at his instruction, brutally massacred seven people over two consecutive nights in Los Angeles and scrawled bloody messages on the walls of the crime scenes. The first night, director Roman Polanski's wife, eight-month-pregnant actress Sharon Tate, was murdered along with coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring, Voytek Frykowski and Steven Parent. The second night, supermarket chain president Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, were found stabbed to death in their home.
Amazon.com:
Solid performances are the high point of this 2004 adaptation of L.A. prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's book about Charles Manson's Family, the Tate-La Bianca murders, and the subsequent trial that caught the world's attention in 1969. While the 1976 TV movie focused mainly on Bugliosi (here played by Bruno Kirby), writer-director John Gray turns his film's attention to cult member Linda Kasabian (a typically fine Clea DuVall), who eventually testified against Manson (a mannered Jeremy Davies) and his followers after they were arrested for several brutal murders, including actress Sharon Tate. Gray gets chilling turns from Allison Smith, Marguerite Moreau, and Mary Lynn Rajskub as 'Manson Girls' Patricia Krenwinkle, Susan Atkins, and Squeaky Fromme, respectively, and the production is atmospherically photographed, but the dialogue is often ham-fisted, and rushes to an all-too-early conclusion (midway through the trial). The DVD offers the 180-minute film in a 1:78:1 anamorphic transfer, and includes a brace of deleted scenes (including some violent moments cut for TV broadcast), commentary by Gray and executive producer Mark L. Wolper, and footage of Davies in rehearsal. --Paul Gaita
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Dis-information and Mis-directed
Very inaccurate film that makes Linda Kasabian more innocent than she was and ventures into areas that are almost insulting (allusions to Sharon Tate plans to cheat on Polanski while she is pregnant).
This version makes no effort to capture the era with set design, dialogue, and even worse the abysmal soundtrack making it seem like a cheap attempt to sell DVD's with the fascination of true crime films based on serial killers (Fincher's ZODIAC being the only top rate film among them) ... Read More
Rating: - DIVIDED OPINION
Well this clearly divides opinion. 1st of all Davis does a pretty good job potraying Manson.Unfortunately the 1st scene at Hinmans is historically wrong, do you keep to the book even when you know some of the facts in that book are incorrect.As for the motives the Directors/writers duck out of this, you can tell they dont fully believe in the helter skelter motive.There is absolutely no conviction in the script. The way the film ends is a disappointment-there isnt much depth to the characters at ... Read More
Rating: - In their eyes there's something lacking...
While there are good moments in this remake, and I like the way it used the perspectives of Linda Kasabian and Charles Manson (probably not coincidentally, the best performances in this production), every time it overlapped with the 1976 Helter Skelter, it increased my respect for the original.
The use of solarized negatives for dramatic effect, and the miscasting of Bruno Kirby as Bugliosi was irritating... but my main beef with this production is that it's so full of wasted opportunities ... Read More
Rating:  - intelligently written and directed
Way better than the 1976 tv version, in fact, superior in every way--with the exception of Railsback's take
on Manson. Pretty damn gruesome, by the way. The actress who portrays Linda Kasabian is very good here.
Writer/director John Gray does fine work. Am glad they showed what they showed of the courtroom scenes--because not only were they dull and went on too long in the '76 flick, but we already know what the verdict was and what happened.
Rating: - Not better then the 1976 version but it ain't THAT bad either!
What is missing in the 2006 version of this film is the creepiness that the 1976 version had.
First off the guy who played Manson did a good job. I give him that.
The girl who played Sadie I wanted to smack the smirk off her face.
Where was the court scene? There was no court scene. In the 1976 version those court scenes were magic.
Also the scene where Sharon, Voytek, Steven, Abigail, Leno and Rosemary (The victims) were a bit too graphic for me. ... Read More
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