Writer-director-costar Jim Van Bebber began shooting his dense, impressionistic evocation of Manson family values in 1988, and the ever-mutating project became an underground legend before finally surfacing in 2004. Given Charles Manson's transformation into a deracinated pop commodity, the film accomplishes the near-impossible, conjuring up and maintaining an unremittingly bad vibe that speaks wordless volumes about the Family's evolution from sex-driven hippie commune to the drug-fueled slaughter machine that almost single-handedly put the mark of Cain on the love generation. The film's framing story takes place in 1996, as middle-aged TV personality Jack Wilson (C...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
96 mins