I suppose the murder houses are all still standing and occupied by people sick of curiosity seekers, but I always thought of these places as being a little more, suburban, and isolated then shown in the film. Maybe they were in '69 but the surrounding areas have been developed since then?
shareThey are not, in fact, the real places. The Tate house was razed some 20 years ago. The LaBianca house is still standing but the one in the film is not it. Doesn't even really resemble it.
shareThe Tate house was razed some 20 years ago.
They were NOT the houses. The Tate residence was (rental property) 10050 Cielo Drive. It was a 4 digit address, the house was at the very end of Cielo Drive and it was up a steep hill. The address has changed but its still 10500 block. The orginal house was torn down and a monstee mansion was built in its place. Bekiwvw there are only 2 orginal houses near the Tate residence. The LaBiana house still exiata but looks nothung like it. The gate was further away and it was not in the same neighborhood. El Coyote is where Tate was supposedly had dinner that night with the other 3 victims, but never been in El Coyote so not sure. No that was not Barker Ranch. Burned down and you can't drive a car into that area of Death Valley.
So no, they were not the actual locations.
Ok, fair enough. The address on the gate at the "Tate property" was way off also, both from what it was in the day and what it became later (it was altered).
shareWho would live there??
sharePeople. They tore down the orginal Tate house but Trent Reznick of Nine inch Nail rented it in the early 90s. Build a studio and did album there. Called the studio "Lepig Studios". He disgraced the house and disrespected the families. Remember, " PIG" was written in the door. When he moved out, he took the orginal door with him.
shareI still can't believe the woman who lived in the former La Bianca home allowed two strangers into her home. So what if they lied and told her they were the La Bianca's grandchildren, she probably should have known that people would make up all kinds of wild stories to gain access to that house. And imagine living in that house, and like the husband...waking up from a nap to find a dude in a Charlie Manson t shirt standing in your kitchen. I would have chased him out the front door and down the driveway too.
As far as I know about the La Bianca home, it now has two large gates at the foot of the long driveway that is on a steep incline, and the house sits far away from the street. The house shown in the movie looks nothing like the real one.
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That wasn't that house and that person didn't live in the former La Bianca home. The film does a decent enough job of making this look like a documentry, but it is fiction.
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Um... Who the hell is Trent Reznick?
"does it bother you that people call you a retard?"
you mean "trent reznor" :)
"i like your movies man, you got a great penis"
I've been studying the case for the past 30 years and admittedly, like the main character in the movie, I am somewhat obsessed with the Manson Murders.
I'm from New York, but in 2009 I took a trip to Los Angeles for the 40th anniversary of the Manson Murders. Scott Michaels is a Manson Murders expert and he runs the Dearly Departed Helter Skelter tour out of L.A. I went on his tour and saw all the sites, including both the former Polanski/Tate residence and the former LaBianca residence. The houses in this movie are not the actual houses where the murders took place. However, the El Coyote restaurant shown in the movie is the actual restaurant where Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Voytek Frykowski had their last meal on the evening of Friday, August 8, 1969.
Yes, I was at that restaurant and I too had dinner there with Scott Michaels and many of his fans on the evening of the 40th anniversary of the murders. Then, after dinner, we proceeded to go to Cielo Drive for a candlelight vigil.
The address at Cielo was changed from 10050 to 10066. The new owner of the mansion is Jeff Franklin (TV producer). You may know him. He created/ produced the TV show, "Full House". He bought the property from owner Rudy Altobelli in the mid 90's. Altobelli rented his house to Roman and Sharon Polanski in February 1969. He also rented the house to Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails, and Marilyn Manson in the early 1990's. They (NIN and Marilyn Manson) recorded the album, "Diwnward Spiral" in the living room where Sharon Tate was murdered.
The LaBianca house looks pretty much the same as it did in 1969, except the gates surrounding the house are a little different.
I'm sure the producers of this movie were not given
The rights to shoot their film at Tate actual locations. Obviously, El Coyote let them shoot at the restaurant.