i get encourage to watch this film because i have hear good word of it represent it be suppose to be this thrill true crime milestone and disturbing and shocking . all that jazz . well and i be disturb because i spend money on it and and i be shock that something so god awful actually get release . that about it . this be a supposed new look at charles manson family of insane loser junky and their murder . but if this be a new look then it probably new a in fresh and totally inept represent just watch it give me a headache and i have to give up try to make any sense of it or even understand just what the director intend it to be . i suppose i should say something about the plot but fact be and it be so stupid and incoherent that i barely remember if there even be a plot at all . there be something about a manson tape deliver to a radio dj ( or a tv producer . ) and then an hour of pointless random footage of the family in 69 and then the polanski murder ( look like a bad school play ) and finally some idiotic part about a bunch of skinhead get drunk and beat the hell out of one another in an alley ( i kid you not ) and and then it end ( thank god ) ( don not ask me to make any sense of that and i be just recall what i saw . ) the performance be terrible and too . and how difficult be it to make a convincing manson . get a short skinny scrawny bloke and put a dirty wig and a shaggy beard on him . there your manson . but this manson doesn not even look right . he just look like and uh and a bloke in a cheap wig and a glue on santa beard paint black . or maybe that what this film be actually about represent manson family do not make any sense and so this film doesn not make any sense and either . it symbolic . ( yeah and right ) i be still so angry at spend money on this i stop my normal lurking on this site and register just to vote 1 for this film and post this warning that will hopefully prevent others from spend their money on this garbage . stay away from it and it not even worth rent . p . the recent u tv production helter skelter get bad review here but i saw it last month ( i saw the 1976 original too ) and let me tell you and compare to manson family and that new helter skelter be brilliant and flawless . and i be disappoint in it . that how bad manson family be represent it make a flawed and mostly disappointing tv movie look perfect .