The Manson Family Page #4

Synopsis: If you think you know the story of the Manson Family, you are dead wrong. On a ranch outside of Los Angeles, the dream of the "Love Generation" is transforming 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 are considered the path to righteousness.Director Jim VanBebber (Deadbeat at Dawn) delivers a dizzying, rapid-fire vision of the sex and violence that unifies the misguided group, a group hell-bent on executing the brutal vision of its leader, Charles Manson. You've seen the story through the eyes of the law. Now witness it through the eyes of THE MANSOSN FAMILY.
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Director(s): Jim Van Bebber
Production: Blue Underground
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.5
Metacritic:
56
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
1997
95 min
Website
114 Views


We talk this way

about Charlie,

and people say,

people like you,

say that were brainwashed.

But weve seen

Charlie do things

that no human being

has done before.

We saw him pick up

a bird in the desert

and breath on it

and bring it back to life.

And he said,

See I told you

you were perfect.

You must always think

of yourself as perfection.

And I bought it,

and him and the

whole brainwash.

Man, Ive been trying to

get a buzz off everybody.

Nobody has nothing.

Awwhhh.

Clem!

I need to get high.

Pack me a bowl.

Please.

That was the last one.

Oh, youve got to be kidding,

there isnt any more.

No!

Goddamn it!

Goddamn it!

Goddamn it,

Charlie, that sucks.

Hmmmm... yeah.

I know some knuckleheads,

we can burn

for at least a lid.

Cmon, lets go.

Whoa, whoa now,

whoa there,

whoa there Sadie!

Hey, hey, hey,

Charlie, Charlie,

let go of my leg.

Whoa whoa hey hey.

Hey, whoa Sadie.

Whoa.

Hold on now.

Oh my,

youve got some

dirty feet here, Sadie.

Lets clean them.

There was a love there.

A very strong, a

very true love there.

And if I hadnt felt it,

I wouldnt have

followed Charlie.

A Joint!

Youve got, youve got pot!

Oh thank God,

Charlie has a joint.

Would you light this.

But until I see all of

you knowing who you are

Im going to be

very much what I am.

God Almighty God.

Who do you think

sent that tape?

Maybe it was a practical

joke by some kids.

You know, Charlie has been

sort of an underground hero

for a lot of these kids.

Wait a minute,

I want to show you something.

I meant to show you

this the other day.

I picked it up at the Dark

Fantasy Comic Book store,

but look at this,

Row after row of

Charlie faces, look at that.

And then I realized,

that its been all been

leading to right now.

You know,

its like the family,

this is the last time.

Because now, Ive

got the perfect body,

the one Ive wanted all along.

The strongest one.

The one thats gonna make it

through for the last time.

Charlie told us

that Children were the

real leaders of the Family.

They were the ones

who lead the way.

Since we waited on

them they set the pace.

Jesus Christ and his

children were just kids.

They were living

free, without guilt,

and without shame.

They were able to

take off their clothes

and lie in the sun

and be one, together.

We took hundreds of

acid trips together,

smoked a lot

of pot together,

because we wanted

to be like Charlie,

because to us,

he was living perfection.

We wanted to mirror him.

We had so much sex.

We had every kind of

sex you can imagine.

We did things youd

never even think of.

Its a miracle Im not

dead from diseases by now.

I had no standards,

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Jim Van Bebber

Jim Van Bebber (born November 24, 1964 in Greenville, Ohio) is an American film director. Van Bebber attended Wright State University where he studied cinema. Instead of using a bank loan to pay for a second year of college, he used the money to finance Deadbeat at Dawn, and founded the indie film company Asmodeus Productions with several colleagues. The Manson Family took more than ten years to complete. Van Bebber is currently involved in the production of a feature-length horror film titled 'Gator Green'. more…

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