The story of The Manson Family – including never-before-accessed interviews from former family members and journalists first on the scene...
The story of The Manson Family – including never-before-accessed interviews from former family members and journalists first on the scene and in the courtroom, weaving these original narratives with archival footage and newly-unearthed images.
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71 %1 reviews"What Ms. Chilcott intends, and achieves, is a careful, meticulous assembling of background that sidesteps the sensationalism that usually attaches itself to the case and gets in the way of what it all was and how it happened. And maybe even why."
Wall Street Journal"The project mostly rehashes what's already known, while largely whiffing in its attempt to convey the lingering impact of the murders or explain the enduring fascination with them more than 50 years later."
CNN"When Chilcott is able to balance first-person narratives, an assemblage of earlier interviews and curated archival footage, Helter Skelter: An American Myth is gripping."
Hollywood Reporter"It's indicative of this self-proclaimed final word on the Manson family's greatest flaw-it's so committed to detail, it forgets about insight."
A.V. Club"It's a canny thesis; if only it weren't submerged in such a conventional retelling of the Manson saga."
Time Magazine"Fans of true-crime, and particularly the docuseries genre, should sample An American Myth - if only to be reminded of the many forms in which evil presents itself."
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