‘CHAOS: The Manson Murders’ Review: Errol Morris’ Manson Documentary Gets Lost in the Fog of Conspiracy
variety.comOwen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic 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 (“Get off the space shuttle, Charles!”) 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.
Read more on variety.com
