Has anyone seen this film directed by Jim Van Bebber in 2003 that won best feature award in the 2004 New York Ungerground Film Festival?

Thoughts on it, and the cult...

The film is a film which details the events leading to the Sharon Tate/LaBianca murders on the 9th of August 1969.

It is a cross between a documentary and a drama. It cuts between footage of the members of the family years later telling their story, and footage of the orgies and the tripping out that the family did at the ranch.

As time progressed Charlie, the leader was able to brainwash the members, particularly the girls into committing the murders. He made several allegations that helter-skelter and armageddon was coming. He would blae the blacks for the murders.

When this anger and fear came, the family drifted apart, committing the murders helped bring some of them together again.

The most disturbing part of the film was the fact that during the parts of the documentary the characters showed no remorse for their actions, they relayed that death and murder was a good thing.

The film ends with one of the detectives watching a film sent to him, from someone linked in with the family. He is then greeted by 5 young boys who have been brainwashed too by the knowledge of Charlie and his cult, even though Charlie is in pirson. The detective gets slaughtered. As the boys leave they shoot one of the members in their group, the motivation is not clear, it is not even shown.

This is the moment the film ends.

It is very graphic, almost pornographic, it wouldn't be appropriate in some films, but in Jim Van Bebber's film about the Manson Family, it helps to strengthen the story.

What was scary about this film is that it is not fiction, it is based on real life, and it is sickening to think that there are people like that out there in this world.