this have get to be the most god awful piece of cinematic crap i have ever watch . it make mel brook movie oscar worthy by comparison . jim vanbebber need to be publicly slap for try to pass this off a any form of entertainment . while some may say that this movie be true to the low budget genre of such classic a the texas chainsaw massacre or night of the living dead and the production value be not in question . it be vanbebber ability to cast and present a plausible story line . the casting be deplorable . for the role of charlie he must have pick the first actor he saw with a beard and long hair . never mind that this actor hair come halfway down his back and ( manson never go much past his shoulder ) this actor speak in a dreadful monotone without so much a a fraction of the personality that steve railsback or even jeremy davy lend to their portrayal of manson . the actor chosen to play tex watson have curly blond hair instead of straight dark hair and a fact that anyone who have show even the most remote interest in the manson case know . he look like a minnesota farmer on little house on the prairie the actress play susan atkins have a butt wider than oprah and while those familiar with the family member know that clem be consider somewhat retarded and the actor portray him do so in such a campy and chaplinesque way it be like watch an old vaudevile act . instead of sharon tate look like a beautiful pregnant woman and the actress look like bloat and alcoholic trailer trash . vanbebber speed up the filming in some place for artistic effect yet this technique hasn not prove remotely useful since the munsters . the end credit list every know family member yet we be never introduce to the majority of them and those we be introduce to we aren not sure who they be sometimes . fact be destroy in this movie as well . lotsapoppa do not die in real life and steven parent be shoot four time and not twice and abagail folger do not have her throat slit and where be mary brunner and bruce davis during the himnan murder . patricia krenwinkel never sport a dorothy hamill hair style . the most baffling aspect of this movie be what the modern day freak have to do with this movie . why be the girl wear a rubber mask with a dildo attach . what be their problem with the journalist . what be the meaning or purpose of the final confrontation . why be they include and period . the viewer never know . holy mackerel and i could go on and on but space prevents it . don not try to eat popcorn during this garbage because your hand will be too busy scratch your head while you repeatedly say what the f .