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So they shouldn't have movies on Hitler, Stalin, Bin Laden,... Oh, wait

Yeah, takes someone particularly ignorant and callous to make a "kookie" movie glorifying a group of butchering psychopaths who brought generations of pain to innocent people.

What are you spewing about? Like this is the first movie based on a tragedy? Go kick rocks you newb.

I actually agree with you. I read a lot, of the other comments, on this thread, and I understand, their points of view, too. Here is where, I will elaborate further. It is fine, to have a movie, such as Helter Skelter, to explain the Manson murders (ie: what happened, where it happened, who was murdered, the trial, etc.) It is also okay, to have movies, explaining who Hitler was, or Stalin, or even Ed Gein, and John Wayne Gacy. These films can help people learn, how their minds operated, etc., to hopefully prevent things, like their terrible acts, from happening again. There are professors, law enforcement, doctors, etc., who study, these people, to try to understand, "why" these people did, what they did. It is also fine, to make Horror films, Thrillers, etc. There are many fans, of the Horror genre. What I have the problem with, in this case, is about, what you, had originally stated. Sharon Tate was a human being...someone's wife (and she was about to be someone's mother), someone's daughter, someone's sister...etc. She was loved. She was pregnant, and died a terrible, frightening death! Her baby was nearly cut, out of her body, and her family, had to be subjected, to all of the horrible things, that she went through, during the Manson murder trial. I do not believe, that it is "okay", to take this terrible tragedy & loss, and make a "fiction", horror-based movie, to make money. It just feels wrong to me, for them, to do so. (I was glad, that they waited, until her Mom, was no longer around, but there are, other family members of hers, that are still alive.) Someone mentioned Titanic, and I got to thinking...the director DID make a "fictional" story, that he injected into the Titanic story line. But, I have read many, many books, on the subject of Titanic, and the director, took painstaking care, to include details, of actual incidents, and people, who died aboard the Titanic ship, and paid them, great respect. For example, the old couple, who stay in the bed, on the ship, as it goes under, ACTUALLY were a couple on Titanic, that refused to be seperated! I feel that the director "honored" the people, who died, on that ship, WHILE injecting his story, into the film, to help...say the younger generation, to enjoy it, and perhaps to go, and look into, what actually happened with the Titanic ship! I do believe, it is all about perspective. I feel, that this particular film, was in poor taste, but that is just "my" humble opinion. I have always felt for Sharon Tate's family, and the LaBianca family, because all of the victims were Innocent, and had never wronged, Charles Manson. Sharon Tate's Mom was at EVERY parole hearing, to keep the murderers, and Manson, behind bars...until she died, in 1992, from a brain tumour. Then, one of her daughters, took over, going to the Parole hearings in her mother's place...so for them, it is NEVER over. Maybe this is a good film. I do not know. But, what I do know, is no one, should be "glamorizing" what Manson, and his Family/Followers did, period. Again, just my humble opinion.

I love. That is all. But I love strongly, exclusively..steadfastly.

Everything you're saying is true...yet...there really are these people like the brother in the film. You've met them, I've met them, seemingly harmless, or so we like to think, but who go on a kick and get all obsessed with this stuff. After all, Helter Skelter was a huge best seller and then a huge TV mini series - is that all that different? So now they make tons of these low budget pictures with similar plot as this one, with weird old friend or black sheep of the family coming back and how does the normal middle class person relate to them? Sometimes there's a road trip, sometimes not. Eg.Happy Christmas, Hump Day, Old Joy, Chuck & Buck, etc - so this one has a Manson fan. I remember guys like him from HS, don't you?

This film was well done and very entertaining, and no worse than any of TV's trashy reality shows.

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This movie took a couple of aspects of a real life situation that hasn't been given much attention. It has nothing to do with the murders other than they are mentioned along with some other facts. You gave a much more vivid description of what happened there than the movie does. Are you being disrespectful of this woman and unborn child?

This movie played on the fact the family members wanted to belong to a group because they didn't feel like they belonged in the cultures each was from. And more importantly, this movie gave a possible story line of what it might be like to be one of Manson's children. I don't think that has been covered before.

All in all, as someone familiar with this part of our history, this was a drama, but done fairly well. I don't think anyone belonging to the families of the victims has or will get offended. This is a piece of cake compared to what they have had to learn to live with.

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