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Directed by Errol Morris and based on the book by Tom O’Neill, Chaos: The Manson Murders makes us privy to the possible reasons behind the murder of actress Sharon Tate and six others in what infamously came to be known as the Tate-labianca murder. Tom has believed since the very beginning that the motive behind the murders, as stated in the court by the prosecutor, was not accurate. In this documentary, Tom provides an alternate theory, though he was never able to substantiate his claims. So, I believe it is up to us to figure out what could have happened and if what Tom claims could be the truth or not.

What was the CIA’s MKUltra program?

The CIA’s MKUltra program began around 1953, and Tom O’Neill, the writer whose book this documentary is based on, believed that it had a crucial role to play in the Charles Manson murders.

In 1969, the dream died. Chances are you've heard that one before. Also, it is quite likely you know pretty well what dream we are talking about: it's, of course, the hippie dream of a more equal and just world based on free love and community. This dream didn't just die of natural causes. Instead, it was murdered by CharlesManson and his so-called family, stabbed to death like actress Sharon Tate, her friends, and the Labianca couple. That such wide-eyed, peace-and-love-touting youths like Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian were able to commit such heinous crimes is something that continues to shock the American public up to this day. That they seemed to be under complete control of a mad-looking criminal such as Manson is something even more terrifying. But the reality of what happened in the days - or even years - that preceded the Tate-labianca murders...

I’m one of those people — there are a lot of us — who is always up for a Charles Manson movie. There have been so many! All the documentaries and dramatizations. Not to mention the TV specials, both prestige and tabloid, the broadcast interviews with Manson acolytes like Tex Watson and Patricia Krenwinkel, and the epic-event television interviews with Charlie himself, like the famous one conducted by Tom Snyder in 1981 or the one that Charlie Rose did with Manson in 1986. Then there are the books, from Ed Sanders’ “The Family” to Jeff Guinn’s “Manson” to the one that remains the granddaddy of all Manson studies, Vincent Bugliosi’s “Helter Skelter,” the best-selling crime book in history (seven million copies).

The Manson saga has been excavated from every angle. Yet I’m always open to any new ray of light that can be shed on its darkness. So I sat...

Sharon Tate, a name that once sparkled with promise, became synonymous with tragedy the night of 1969. The very woman who once graced magazine covers with a smile, was now at the mercy of one of the most horrific crimes in Hollywood history. She was the radiant actress, the model, the adored wife of director Roman Polanski, and, above all, the expectant mother who would never see her dreams realized.

Sharon Tate in Valley of the Dolls (1967) | Credit: 20th Century Fox

However, fate dealt a cruel hand on the night of August 9, 1969, when she and four others were brutally murdered by the notorious Manson Family, a crime that rippled through Los Angeles and left a lasting scar far beyond. This devastating event took not only her life but also her unborn child’s.

But beyond the glamorous image Hollywood painted, her last words before her murder, spoken in sheer desperation, remind...

Hey, TV fans. Happy Friday. We're back in action to reveal what the major networks: Fox, ABC, CBS and NBC will be serving up in their primetime, TV show slots tonight, July 14, 2023. Let's do it. ABC primetime schedule for July 14, 2023: Will Trent repeat episode 5 of season 1 titled, "The Look Out." ABC's official description for it: "When the wife of a local football hero is shot in a robbery gone wrong, Will is determined to quickly solve the seemingly simple case; Angie and Ormewood investigate the murder of a local realtor." 7pm to 8pm central standard time. 20/20 repeat episode titled, "Truth and Lies: The Family Manson." ABC's official description for it: "On two consecutive nights in 1969, followers of cult leader Charles Manson kill seven people, including eight-month pregnant actress Sharon Tate; interviews with Manson and former cult members Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel." 8pm to 10pm central standard time.

Leslie Van Houten, who served more than 50 years in prison on murder and conspiracy convictions in the Charles Manson “family” 1969 killings of Rosemary and Leno Labianca that shocked Hollywood and the nation, was released from a California prison today, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The Cdcr said in a statement that the 73-year-old Van Houten was released “to parole supervision.” Van Houten reportedly was taken to a transitional housing facility.

“Van Houten will have a three-year maximum parole term with a parole discharge review occurring after one year,” according to Cdcr. “For safety and security reasons, Cdcr does not provide information on a person’s time or location of parole release.”

The release comes four days after Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said it would no longer challenge the parole. A state appeals court in May rejected Newsom’s most recent of three parole rejections.

Van Houten,...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom — who blocked efforts for Leslie Van Houten to be paroled five times previously — announced Friday, July 7, that he won’t contest a California appellate court’s decision to allow for her parole. Newsom had until Monday, July 10, to file a challenge with the Supreme Court.

“The Governor is disappointed by the Court of Appeal’s decision to release Ms. Van Houten but will not pursue further action as efforts to further appeal are unlikely to succeed,” Erin Mellon, spokesperson for the governor’s office, said in a statement via NBC News.

In a split ruling today, a state appeals court panel reinstated a grant of parole for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, overturning an earlier decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom to block her release.

Tuesday’s decision does not automatically mean Van Houten will be released. The state could still appeal the ruling to the California Supreme Court. Neither the governor’s office nor the state Attorney General’s Office immediately returned a message seeking comment.

Van Houten, now 73, is serving a potential life prison sentence for taking part in the killings of Leno and Rosemary Labianca in their Los Feliz home more than 50 years ago.

The Manson killings shook Los Angeles and defined a generation. The story of the Manson family has inspired countless shows and films, including, most recently, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Victoria Pedretti played a character called “Lulu” in the film,...

It’s not uncommon for strange events to happen during the filming of a movie, but when the project is from the horror genre, these weird occurrences are often attributed to a curse – and here are some horror movies believed to be cursed. The horror genre is home to some of the best movies ever made, and it has also seen a variety of villains that go from human to supernatural and sometimes a combination of both. The themes and stories told in horror movies are sometimes taboo or delicate subjects, and it's not uncommon for them to draw backlash and controversy, as well as a bunch of rumors.

While movies from all genres have their legends and myths due to the many behind-the-scenes stories that come to light, when the project is from the horror genre, these on-set stories take a completely different meaning. If something strange happens during...

The cast of “American Horror Story” Season 11 was officially announced on September 29, several weeks ahead of the October 19 premiere date. This year’s New York City-themed installment features many returning “AHS” actors and also welcomes some first-timers to the FX franchise.

This is the first edition to film entirely in the Big Apple, and the official tagline teases that “mysterious deaths and disappearances ramp up in the city.” Meanwhile, “a doctor makes a frightening discovery, and a local reporter becomes tomorrow’s headline.” Co-creators Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk wrote the season premiere, which was directed by John J. Gray. Scroll through our gallery above (or click here for direct access) to see the “American Horror Story: New York City” cast photos for “AHS: NYC.”

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O’Hare plays Henry in the “New York City” installment. He by far has...

Governor Gavin Newsom once again denied parole for former Manson family member Leslie Van Houten Saturday, the fourth time a California governor has blocked her release.

Van Houten, serving a life sentence for her role in the Manson family murders of Leno and Rosemary Labianca in August 1969 — committed when Van Houten was 19 — was recommended for parole by a California panel in July 2020; however, just as Newsom did in June 2019, the governor reversed that decision.

In a statement that echoed his 2019 denial, Newsom stated that “evidence shows that she currently poses...

A California appeals court rejected Manson family member Leslie Van Houten’s latest bid for release from prison.

In January, a parole board recommended the now-70-year-old Van Houten’s release for a third time. However, California Governor Gavin Newsom denied the parole board’s request in June. That decision was brought to an appeals court Friday, with two of the three appellate judges upholding the governor’s denial.

“The Governor’s determination that Van Houten has not taken full responsibility for her role in the crimes, and continues to...

Quentin Tarantino movies are defined as much by their sound design as they are by the director’s trademark writing, and over the filmmaker’s last three movies a big part of the Tarantino sound has been crafted by supervising foley artist Gary A. Hecker. For “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” it fell on Hecker to figure out how to create the head-smashing, dog-biting, and flame-throwing murders that make up the movie’s climax. The scene in question finds Manson cult members Susan Atkins (Mikey Madison), Tex Watson (Austin Butler), and Patricia Krenwinkel (Madisen Beaty) breaking into the home of Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) in order to kill him. The “Manson murders” are upended when the killers run into Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), who along with his dog dispose of the cult members in brutally horrific ways.

Hecker recently spoke with Vulture writer Jordan Crucchiola about the sounds that...

[Editor’s note: Boots Riley’s exclusive follow-up statement to IndieWire has been added to the bottom of the post]

“Sorry to Bother You” writer-director Boots Riley returned to Twitter after a nearly three-month hiatus to share a criticism he has with Quentin Tarantino’s depiction of the Manson Family cult members in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Actors such as Dakota Fanning, Austin Butler, Maya Hawke, and Lena Dunham star in the film as Manson followers, many of which are based on real people. Riley took issue with Tarantino’s script for depicting the cult members as hippies with liberal beliefs and not at all dealing with their racism and right-wing views.

“The Manson Family were overt white supremacists who tried to start a race war with the goal of killing black folks,” Riley wrote to his followers. “They weren’t ‘hippies’ spouting left critiques of media. They were rightwingers. This fact flips Tarantino’s allegory on its head.

(The following piece isn’t so much a review as a gathering of thoughts and observations about that new movie everyone is talking about and can’t seem to stop talking about. As such, it assumes that the reader is familiar with the film and already knows what it is to which the writer-director is building and is no respecter of spoilers in talking about what happens in and around the controversial ending. So, if you haven’t seen the movie yet and would like to keep certain surprises intact, best to stop reading now and come back to this one later.)

There’s plenty to enjoy about the leisurely pace that characterizes Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood, and in the anticipation leading up to its release it was wonderful to consider getting excited about a big summer movie that wasn’t a special-effects extravaganza directed...

Actress Sharon Tate was only 26 years old when her life and career were tragically cut short in one of the most brutal murders in Hollywood history. On Aug. 8, 1969, the stunning Valley of the Dolls star - who was married to film director Roman Polanski and eight and a half months pregnant with their son - was spending time with friends at 10050 Cielo Drive, the secluded home she and Roman shared in La's Benedict Canyon. Roman was off in London filming The Day of the Dolphin, so he asked their close pals Wojciech Frykowski and Folger's Coffee heiress Abigail Folger to stay at the house with his pregnant wife until he flew back to La on Aug. 12. The trio had dinner at Sharon's favorite restaurant, El Coyote, along with celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring. They returned to the house around 10:30 p.m.

Shortly after midnight on Aug. 9, the house was broken...

Oxygen’s “Manson: The Women” features four of Charles Manson’s female followers, some of who feel regret for the murders of Sharon Tate and her friends 50 years ago, while others don’t quite feel the same empathy.

The special includes interviews with Catherine Louise “Gypsy” Share, Sandra “Blue” Good, Dianne “Snake” Lake (who was 14 when she joined the Family) and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (who is also known for attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975). None of these women were directly involved with the Tate-labianca murders, but were all sent to prison for other reasons and for a variety of lengths — Share, for example, served five years for armed robbery.

The four women talk about their impression of Charlie, whom they all deemed charming and capable of making someone feel special, what their life was like before and during their time as a Manson Family member, and what happened shortly after Manson,...

August’s horror and sci-fi home media releases are kicking off with an eclectic, but fantastic bunch, led by Arrow Video’s special edition release of Alice, Sweet Alice. Raro Video is resurrecting Lucio Fulci’s Touch of Death this week, and if you happened to miss them earlier this year, both The Curse of La Llorona and Charlie Says will be hitting both formats on Tuesday.

Other notable Blu-ray and DVD releases arriving on August 6th include Room For Rent, The Reflecting Skin, St. Agatha, Division 19, Xenophobia, and Pentagram.

Alice, Sweet Alice: Special Edition

A young Brooke Shields meets an untimely end in this religious-themed proto slasher par excellence from director Alfred Sole. On the day of her first communion, young Karen (Brooke Shields) is savagely murdered by an unknown assailant in a yellow rain mac and creepy translucent mask. But the nightmare is far from over - as...

Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood hit movie theaters last week to critical acclaim. The film — starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie as the late Sharon Tate — follows Charles Manson and his followers leading up to their two-day killing spree in 1969.

Tarantino, an enthusiastic student of Hollywood history, featured some of Los Angeles’ most iconic hotspots from the 60s in his film — including infamous locales such as the home Tate shared with her husband, director Roman Polanski, where she, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Voytek Frykowski and Steve Parent were murdered by members of the Manson Family.

(Spoiler alert: Don’t read on if you don’t want to hear lots of details about Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.”)

Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” takes place around the time of the infamous Manson family murders of Sharon Tate and her friends under the dark influence of Charles Manson. The movie deviates — a lot — from what really happened on the night of Aug. 8, 1969, including in the moment when a young Manson follower bails out on her friends before the home invasion.

Did it really happen? Not exactly. But there’s a grain of truth. And seriously, stop reading now if you want to avoid spoilers.

In the film, “Tex” Watson and three female members of the Manson Family drive up to the residence of Tate and Roman Polanski at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles.

They park the car...

(Warning: This column contains major spoilers about the ending of “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.” Read at your own risk.)

I want to talk about the ending of “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood,” starting around the moment the Manson family shows up on Cielo Drive, and…well, okay, we’ll get into it in a bit. So if you don’t want to know what happens during the last half hour of Quentin Tarantino’s new movie, stop reading now or forever hold your troll. This column hinges on some major spoilers, but my desire isn’t to tread on anyone’s pleasure of discovery. It’s to look at a sequence that needs to be looked at, because it’s one of the defining movie sequences of the year.

Before I deal with the ending, though, I want to talk about the first two hours of “Once Upon a Time…...

David Crow Jul 25, 2019

We examine the shocking ending of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and what it means for the film's era and Quentin Tarantino.

This article contains major Once Upon a Time in Hollywood spoilers.

Joan Didion famously wrote in her 1979 collection of essays, The White Album, about the night Sharon Tate died.

“Many people I know in Los Angeles believe the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969,” wrote Didion. “Ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.”

This is often the conventional wisdom about the era: Charles Manson’s so called Family brought an end to the Summer of Love, which also just happened to occur around the same time that the old Hollywood studio system finally collapsed, buried by its massive flops like Hello,...

If you’ve ever wanted to own a piece of history — albeit a dark chapter — now’s your chance.

Built in 1922, this gated, single-story, Spanish-style home has impressive panoramic views in both the front and back yards, a swimming pool, and ties to some of the most notorious crimes of the 20th century — namely, it’s the house where Charles Manson’s followers murdered Leno and Rosemary Labianca almost 50 years ago. Located at 3311 Waverly Drive in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, the home is currently on the market for $1,988,800.

According to California law,...

Charlie Says Shocking Drama Makes Its Blu-ray and DVD Debut August 6th, 2019 from Shout! Factory Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women who killed for him — Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel, and …

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No other mass criminal or cult figure in American history has garnered as much fascination within Hollywood and popular culture as Charles Manson (though Ted Bundy is coming close). He and his “family” have been the subject of movies, parodies, and he even landed a Rolling Stone cover. “American Horror Story: Cult” had an actor portraying Manson, and Quentin Tarantino is digging up the past for his “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” featuring the Manson Family murders. Here is a sampling of actors who have dared to play the notorious figure.

Steve Railsback – “Helter Skelter” (1976)

The memory of Manson was still fresh when this TV special based on Vincent Bugliosi’s book was aired. CBS even made it a two-night special.

Michael Reid MacKay – “Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys” (1990)

This TV special about the career of the Beach Boys explored Manson’s relationship with Beach Boys member Dennis Wilson.

Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women who killed for him – Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon), and Susan Atkins (Marianne Rendón)—remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader.

Confined to an isolated cellblock in a California penitentiary, the trio seem destined to live out the rest of their lives under the delusion that their crimes were part of a cosmic plan—until empathetic graduate student Karlene Faith (Merritt Wever) is enlisted to rehabilitate them. Convinced the prisoners are not the inhuman monsters the world believes them to be, Karlene begins the arduous process of breaking down the psychological barriers erected by Manson. But are the women ready to confront the horror of what they did, including the fabled murder of actress and model Sharon Tate (Grace Van Dien)?

Boundary pushing auteur Mary Harron presents a...

On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom denied a request for parole from Leslie Van Houten, the former Manson family member who was convicted for her role in the grisly slaying of the Los Angeles couple Leno and Rosemary Labianca. In a statement, Gov. Newsom said that despite the apparent strides she has made in prison, Van Houten still posed an apparent risk to others’ safety.

“Ms. Van Houten and the Manson family committed some of the most notorious and brutal killings in California history,” Newsom said in a statement. “When considered as a whole,...

Charles Manson was one of the most infamous cult leaders in history, largely due to his loyal followers. While Manson was associated with some of the most gruesome murders in Hollywood in the 1960s, it was actually his cult members who carried out most of the heinous acts. Often referred to as the Manson Family, the cult consisted of a group of hippies (mostly women) who believed in his plans to start a race war.

After helping Manson carry out multiple murders, including that of actress Sharon Tate - who was eight months pregnant at the time - Manson and a handful of his followers were eventually apprehended in October 1969. The group was initially given the death penalty, but when it was abolished in California in 1972, their sentences were altered to life in prison. Though the famous cult leader died on Nov. 19, 2017, many of the remaining members are still serving their life sentences.

2019 is shaping up to be the year where Charles Manson and his horrific crimes are repeatedly depicted on screen. So far, we’ve seen the atrocious film The Haunting of Sharon Tate turn the Manson Family’s spree into exploitation horror. If you’ll recall, I listed it as one of the worst movies of 2019 so far. Later on this year, Manson will be a figure on the periphery of events in Quentin Tarantino’s hotly anticipated Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. That has the possibility of being one of the year’s best. Now, this week sees the release of Charlie Says, a contained look at the women in Manson’s circle. It’s an interesting flick, though one that ultimately ends up underwhelming. The film is half told in flashbacks, filling in gaps as needed. Essentially, the story for Charlie Says centers around the young women who...

2019 has been a very busy year so far for the horror genre, as we’ve been getting a ton of films coming out over the last few months, which can make it hard to keep up. Here’s a look at a trio of projects that I recently had the opportunity of viewing: Mary Harron’s Charlie Says, which arrives in theaters in Los Angeles today, writer/director A.T. White’s Starfish, and In Memory Of from filmmaker Eric Stanze.

Charlie Says: For Charlie Says, filmmaker Mary Harron explores the manipulative spell that the infamous Charles Manson (Matt Smith) cast over his followers, and in this case, three different women—Leslie Van Houten (Hannah Murray), Susan Atkins (Marianne Rendón), and Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon)—who were incarcerated for their involvement in the brutal killings that rocked Los Angeles (and the entire world) in 1969. The trio were incarcerated together, kept away from the general population,...

“Maybe these women are victims too.”

That’s the chin-scratcher at the forefront of Charlie Says, director Mary Harron and her American Psycho collaborator Guinevere Turner’s look into the Manson family – or rather, the women inside the Manson family. Uttered by Karlene Faith (played compassionately and marvelously by Merritt Wever), a grad student who works to revamp the psyches of three incarcerated girls who did their part in the notorious and savage Tate-labianca murders of 1969, the film uses her outsider perspective to form a tragic and empathetic narrative around the three and their ultimately abusive relationship with ringleader Charles Manson (Matt Smith).

The title refers to the trio’s go-to answer whenever Karlene gently questions their seemingly indestructible loyalty. As Leslie Van Houten (Hannah Murray), Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon), and Susan Atkins (Marianne Rendón) spout out some of the mis-truths implanted and endorsed by Manson, such as a race...

Looking back on her childhood, Guinevere Turner recalls the usual mixed bag of good times and incidents she would rather forget. But unlike most people, she was born into a tightly knit commune of 100 adults and 60 children.

“So much of my childhood is full of really fond memories — I never thought that there were kids out there who had a better life,” Turner says. “I felt bad for everyone else because we were the chosen people who were going to be taken by UFOs to Venus.”

Turner grew up in the Lyman Family,...

"Everything was to teach me something." That's what Linda Kasabian told Joan Didion, a confidante during her first few years after being arrested for helping Susan Atkins, Charles "Tex" Watson, Leslie Van Houten, and Patricia Krenwinkel commit murder at the behest of Charles Manson. Didion, like any number of writers, was fascinated by the idea that something like the Manson Murders could just rip a hole in the fabric of time and space. California's crimes had been kept well-hidden from the rich and comfortable and suddenly Manson's snarling face was all over newspapers, and all because they didn't accept him as one of “them.” He wanted to be a singer so badly and no one would give him a record deal, so he sent his followers out to kill the producer Terry Melcher who refused to sign him. By that logic any one famous enough could be next if some...

Some months in advance of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” a film about the Manson murders, comes Mary Harron’s “Charlie Says,” a very strained attempt to understand the motivations of the women who killed for Charles Manson.

“Charlie Says” is based on a book by Karlene Faith, a teacher who started working with three of Manson’s “girls” three years after they were put in prison for murder. The title comes from the constant refrain of these brainwashed young women, who still believe outlandish things that Manson told them about becoming winged elves after a race war.

The sound design is atmospheric and subjective in the first scenes, where we see Leslie Van Houten showering after the stabbing of Leno and Rosemary Labianca, but this subjectivity is abandoned once the film takes us to the Spahn Ranch where Manson holds sway.

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Matt Smith and Mary Harron's Charlie Says attempts to shift the focus of Charles Manson's mythology to the women he brainwashed.

Charles Manson is having a big year. Actually that moment occurred back in 1969, during a fateful summer he and his cult ended in mass murder. But with the grisly 50th anniversary upon us, we’re getting every sort of cinematic reworking from exploitative dreck like The Haunting of Sharon Tate to whatever the heck Quentin Tarantino is up to these days. Despite being a small, pathetic little monster desperate to act the big man, folks inexplicably can’t let Charlie go.

Charlie Says wisely avoids the cult of worship around Manson and even attempts to do the rare thing and change the often male gaze of the madman to a female one that’s studying the young women he brainwashed into murdering for him. The result attempts...

The 18th Tribeca Film Festival launches this Wednesday 24th April at New York’s iconic Apollo Theater with the world premiere of Oscar-winner Roger Ross Williams’s documentary The Apollo, which focuses on the history and legacy of that very venue. Before the 2019 edition of the festival closes on Sunday, the 5th of May with the world premiere of Danny Boyle’s comedy Yesterday, Tribeca audiences will be treated to a vast array of TV, short film, online work, narrative feature and documentary screenings, plus special musical performances, onstage talks, anniversary screenings and reunions, as well as podcasts, video games and Vr experiences.

Our man in Manhattan James Kleinmann will be at Tribeca once again for HeyUGuys and here he takes a look at this year’s full documentary and narrative feature film lineup. For the full festival schedule and to buy tickets head to the official Tribeca website.

Spotlight...

Welcome to Trailer Binge, a recurring feature where we get a chance to catch up on some of the recent trailer releases in the past week. Whether it be indie releases, or recent movie and TV trailers that may have otherwise slipped through the cracks, Trailer Binge allows us to catch up on the seemingly constant onslaught of new new content being released each week.

In this edition of Trailer Binge, we have brand new trailers Shazam!, the upcoming comedy Long Shot and an unnerving trailer for Charlie Says. Plus, we have an interesting new trailer for The Art of Self Defense, followed by a new trailer for Santa Clarita Diet Season 3. Without further delay, let the binge begin!

Shazam! Chinese Exclusive Trailer

A new Chinese exclusive trailer for Shazam! has arrived. The latest DC superhero film stars Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer and Mark Strong, with David F. Sandberg...

Matt Smith is taking on his most menacing role yet.

The Crown actor, 36, stars as Charles Manson in Charlie Says, which follows how Manson convinced his so-called family to commit gruesome murders — and what happened to the women afterwards.

The movie, set to hit theaters May 10, is directed by American Psycho‘s Mary Herron and also stars Chace Crawford, Marianne Rendón, Game of Thrones‘ Hannah Murray and Sosie Bacon (Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick’s 26-year-old daughter).

All the actors play the real-life members of Manson’s murderous clan. Manson died while serving life in prison in 2017 at 83.

Murray, Bacon...

Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women who killed for him—Leslie Van Houten (Hannah Murray), Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon), and Susan Atkins (Marianne Rendón)—remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader (Matt Smith). Confined to an isolated cellblock in a California penitentiary, the trio seem destined to live out the rest of their lives under the delusion that their crimes were part of a cosmic plan—until empathetic graduate student Karlene Faith (Merritt Wever) is enlisted to rehabilitate them.

Convinced the prisoners are not the inhuman monsters the world believes them to be, Karlene begins the arduous process of breaking down the psychological barriers erected by Manson. But are the women ready to confront the horror of what they did?

Charlie Says premiered at the 2018 Venice Film Festival and will be released theatrically by IFC Films...

The first trailer has been released for the latest film about Charles Manson and the Manson Family called Charlie Says. Matt Smith takes on the role of Manson in the movie and as you’ll see, he seems to disappear in the role.

The film comes from director Mary Harron and screenwriter Guinevere Turner who worked together on the cult classic film American Psycho. They've reunited for this movie that tells the story of the three “Manson Family” women who were sentenced to death in Charles Manson’s infamous murder case.

Here’s the synopsis:

Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, three women who killed for him—Leslie Van Houten (Hannah Murray), Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon), and Susan Atkins (Marianne Rendón)—remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader (Matt Smith). Confined to an isolated cellblock in a California penitentiary,...

This summer will bring what we imagine is a fitting double feature with Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Mary Harron’s Charlie Says, both exploring a Charles Manson-era Los Angeles. The latter, which will arrive first and captures the infamous cult leader seemingly with more breadth, has now released its first trailer.

Coming from the American Psycho duo of Harron and writer Guinevere Turner, the film stars Matt Smith as Manson, but it’s more specifically about the group of women who fell under his spell. Following a premiere at Venice Film Festival, IFC Films will release the film this May.

Also starring Hannah Murray, Sosie Bacon, Marianne Rendón, Chace Crawford, Suki Waterhouse, Kayli Carter, and Annabeth Gish, see the trailer below.

Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women who killed for him...

2019 is shaping up to be the year of Charles Manson; not only will the notorious murderer be popping up in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and the second season of David Fincher's Mindhunter, but he's also set to appear in Charlie Says, a drama which primarily focuses on Leslie Van Houten (Hannah Murray), Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon), and Susan Atkins…...

IFC Films has released the first trailer to Charlie Says, the film which focuses on the females who fell prey to the manipulation of the infamous murderer and cult leader Charles Manson. American Psycho filmmaker Mary Harron directed the film, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival last year.

The Crown‘s Matt Smith plays Manson, starring alongside Emmy winner Merritt Wever, Hannah Murray, Sosie Bacon, Marianne Rendón, Chace Crawford, Suki Waterhouse, Kayli Carter, and Annabeth Gish.

The pic takes place years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil and centers on the three women who killed for him—Leslie Van Houten (Murray), Patricia Krenwinkel (Bacon), and Susan Atkins (Rendón). Confined to an isolated cellblock in a California penitentiary, the trio seems destined to live out the rest of their lives under the delusion that their crimes were part of a cosmic plan...

IFC Films has our first look at Charlie Says, the latest big screen dive into the infamous mad man behind the Sharon Tate murders. We get a trailer and poster, which feature Matt Smith as the cult leader.

Directed by Mary Harron, Years after the shocking murders that made the nameCharles Mansonsynonymous with pure evil, the three women who killed for him, Leslie Van Houten (Hannah Murray), Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon), and Susan Atkins (Marianne Rend&#243n), remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader (Matt Smith). Confined to an isolated cellblock in a California penitentiary, the trio seem destined to live out the rest of their lives under the delusion that their crimes were part of a cosmic plan, until empathetic graduate student Karlene Faith (Merritt Wever) is enlisted to rehabilitate them.

Convinced the prisoners are not the inhuman monsters the world believes them to be, Karlene begins...

Charles Manson thriller Charlie Says is directed by Canadian filmmaker Mary Harron most notable as the director of the Bret Easton Ellis adpat American Psycho and supernatural coming of ager The Moth Diaries most recently.

The screenplay is written by Guinevere Turner; inspired by the book written by Karlene Faith & Ed Sanders.

Synopsis:

Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, three women who killed for him—Leslie Van Houten (Hannah Murray), Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon), and Susan Atkins (Mar...

Since making “American Psycho,” which IndieWire recently named one of the 100 Best Movies Directed by Women, Mary Harron has been relatively elusive to indie film audiences. After making her feature debut with the sadly under-appreciated “I Shot Andy Warhol,” Harron made fewer movies but found success directing a robust slate of prestige television, most recently on Sarah Polley and Margaret Atwood’s “Alias Grace.” With “Charlie Says,” Harron returns to feature films for the first time since 2011 with a decidedly “American Psycho”-like tale, re-teaming with her screenwriter on that project, the great Guinevere Turner.

The official “Charlie Says” synopsis reads: “Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women who killed for him — Leslie Van Houten (Hannah Murray), Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon), and Susan Atkins (Marianne Rendón) — remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader (Matt Smith). Confined to...

What would lead a group of young people to commit one of the most heinous crimes of the 20th century? Well, the charisma and madness of Charles Manson, apparently. At least, that’s the premise of the upcoming IFC Films release, “Charlie Says.”

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As seen in the trailer, the film tells the story of the Manson Family and the terrible murder of Sharon Tate from the point of view of the women at the center of the crime, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Susan Atkins.

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This is our first look at Matt Smith (Doctor Who) in the role of Carles Manson in the upcoming film Charlie Says. The film comes from director Mary Harron and screenwriter Guinevere Turner who worked together on the cult classic film American Psycho. They've reunited for this new film that will center on the three “Manson Family” women who were sentenced to death in Charles Manson’s infamous murder case. Here's the synopsis:

Charlie Says will focus on the three young women who were sentenced to death following the infamous murder case of Manson (Smith). When the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life imprisonment. One young graduate student, Karlene Faith (Wever), was sent in to teach them, and through her the film will follow their transformations as they face the reality of their horrific crimes.

This actually sounds like it will be a fascinating film to watch and...

This year’s Venice Film Festival isn’t over yet, but already it feels historic. A nexus of shifting paradigms and pure filmmaking excitement. Here are a few thoughts about it:

1. It Was the Mother of All Festival Cornucopias. It’s not unusual to leave a film festival having encountered a number of inspiring movies. But what dazzled uniquely at Venice this year was how many films there were that felt extraordinary that felt so major. From the convulsively authentic and exciting “First Man,” a rough-and-tumble 1960s Nasa-goes-to-the-moon drama that takes up residence in your head, to the transcendent romance of “A Star Is Born,” a Hollywood movie that feels at once rapturously new and swooningly classic. From the wicked acidic grip of the “All About Eve”-meets-Masterpiece Theatre of Doom costume drama “The Favourite” to the neorealist aesthetic mastery of “Roma” to the ecstatically lived-in portrait of Vincent van Gogh...

The ’60s may have ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, as Joan Didion wrote in “The White Album,” but our attempts to understand the events of that day show no sign of slowing down. With Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” set to be released on the 50th anniversary of the Tate-labianca murders, “American Psycho” director Mary Harron has beaten him to the punch by a year with “Charlie Says” — not that the film contains any great insights about Charles Manson or the crimes of his murderous Family.

Harron focuses her attention on three of Manson’s acolytes: Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon), Susan Atkins (Marianne Rendón), and especially Leslie Van Houten (Hannah Murray), who after having their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment found themselves being taught by a grad student (Merritt Wever) at the California Institution for Women in an attempt to undo some of the cult leader’s teachings.