Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter

I actually went looking for this movie cuz I was wondering what the hell happened to Jeremy Davies! Its been soooooooooo long since I’d seen him in anything! Anyway, I discovered Helter Skelter!

And what a discovery it was! Ooooh! Jeremy Davies! My dear Chaps would prolly remember him as mild-mannered Upham in Saving Private Ryan. Anyways! As the title suggests its about no, not the Beatles! But Charlie Manson and yes, Davies plays Manson! The movie surrounds the little family that Manson created and how they all adore and are in awe of him, in short, they think he’s Jesus.

But what’s a Manson movie without the Tate-LaBianca murders and how he conspired them but didn’t directly participate.

Linda Kasabian played by Clea Duvall is a young lady who joins the Manson family, she has a young daughter. Upon arrival, her daughter is taken away from her as well as all her possessions, this is as Charles instructed. As Linda sits down to her first meal with the Mansons, she’s cautioned by Susan "Sadie" Atkins played by the pretty Marguerite Moreau “Charlie says women must only eat after the dogs have eaten.”

Linda gets with Manson, she tells one of the girls “its like he sees through me”. Linda also accompanies members of the family for their variety of murder sprees. She then tries to escape as the reality of the murders hit her and the rest, well go watch it and you’ll know the rest!


3 ½ pills out of 5