The Helter Skelter Murders
The Cinema Snob checks out one of the earlier Charles Manson inspired movies.
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Great Review Brad, I lost it on the Manson dance at the end.
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LOL @ the Lloyd reaction shot. XD I love that you're putting him in your videos, maybe now he'll stop bawing at you during V-logs since he's getting the screen time he demands! XD
I laughed so hard at Jerrid, too. I wasn't sure if it was him 'til the close-up... and then I fell outta my chair.
Great vid! I might actually check this movie out. It does look really well shot.
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Manson tried so hard at his trials. Half of the footage is hilarious though it shouldn't be.
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My favorite part is when Lloyd was watching you dancing with your skeleton butler^_^
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That music... actually is pretty kickass.
Plus apparently the people who made this movie bothered to do good lighting for black and white photography, which you don't always see in movies during the era where color video was starting to become the standard. This review was surprisingly informative, I approve.
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I have a fascination with cults and have watched several shows on them and read up on them.
On a show I watched about the Charles Manson cult, they said that sometimes without stealing anything they would rearrange people's furniture in the night. I always thought that was really funny and a great idea to really fuck with someone's head. If you did it randomly over and over to the same person. They would not understand the motivation because you didn't steal anything. I can just imagine someone having a mental breakdown because of it. But in a hilarious sort of way.
Also there are people that worship Charles online. Look on pretty much any Youtube video related to Charles and you will see them in the comments. They feel like Charles acts crazy just to mock others and he is such a genius what he says goes over most people's heads. And I also heard he tries to sell his artwork and smuggle it out of prison but it gets destroyed. You can buy some of it on Ebay from what I hear. What I have seen of it just looks like an acid trip. Which is just sad.
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"sometimes without stealing anything they would rearrange people's furniture in the night"
If I remember correctly Charlie and the gang called that game the "creepy crawl". I guess that's the kind of thing trolls did before the invention of the internet.
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"Ennio Moycone" ???
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? He pronounced it "Morricone."
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Hate to say this, but screw you! Charlie Manson's folk was pretty damn amazing and the lyrics were even better.
I've also heard some pretty good arguments that Charlie was innocent and the rest of the group framed him to free their friend from prison. All those points were very valid, but it's kinda hard to believe when you see how indifferently Charlie himself seem to feel about the case. So if he's innocent, he surely does a poor job of proving it.
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Great review Brad. I loved Lloyd's reaction shot to you dancing. Are you planning on doing any of the other movies based on real life events like Guyana:Cult of the Damned?
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lol, Sinema Snob reviews Umberto Lenzi's "Eaten Alive."
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I knew Jerrid was the savior! Clearly, all those times he "gimped up" the Radiodrome promo were simply coded messages foretelling the end of the world!
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It would be great to se a Cinema Snob / OAN Citizen crossover
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God no.
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You know, let's not bring up Oan's name again on this website. Because all it ever does is send everyone into a foaming frenzy and distracts from the main topic. So let's just move on everybody.
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I have always known that Jerrid was of divine origin. But i did not know that he had the saviour quality at the Flash Gordon and Jesus level!
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Yay, the return of Jerrid as the Messiah! When he comes back next time, a Snob vs. Messiah face-off would be glorious.
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Typo on the opening introduction card! They misspelled "simulating" as "similating." Surprised you didn't notice! (You actually had it circled...lol!)
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Love your work Brad but this episode was not on par whit the other ones you have recently made. Hope the next movie you do will be a train wreck, or a nice porno about corpses or sheep. I guess i'm weird like that.
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Actually thought it was one of his recent best. It's easy as hell for him to riff some campy cheesefest like the "Superman" musical, but with this movie it's a mixture of his humor and actually saying some important things about the movie. Plus The Messiah bit was great.
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Jerrid interpretation of "In the Summertime" was the cherry on the cake that is this review...XD
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YYEEEEAAAA THE MESSIAH!!!!!
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That review was great. This movie is relatively "nice" compared to last week's movie. It appears that you actually enjoyed this one too.
They may have made this movie while the Manson trial was still going on, but that's still better than making a movie before a trial has even started, like that Drew Peterson movie.
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A really good review of what looks like a pretty interesting movie. I personally thought the guy playing Manson looked like Neil Diamond.
Also, the Snob's title cards are far and away the best out there. Big kudos to Shaun Millington!
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You know, I grew up here in Brooklyn, and we used to come home from school. Our mothers, some of the ladies in the neighborhood would make blueberry pie. And we would rush in knowing our mothers were still working. And we’d eat. They’d come in, “Did y’all eat the pie?” “No!” And blueberry would be all over.
That’s what happens when I look at Charlie Manson. They talk about, “The country’s bad, and we didn’t do it. We were the ones fighting.” But they got the blueberry pie all over their face. They were the ones eating the pie.
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Anyone who thinks Charles Manson is guilty should research how the Folgers corporation interfered with the investigation and trial. Charlie was pretty fucked up though, I agree to that.
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One weird thing I noticed was the director is named Frank Howard. Wasn't that an alias of Albert Fish? Now I just imagine the director ramming needles into his taint while screaming "I am Christ!"
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Ahhh! He made a reference to The Wire! This makes my day.
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Oh, god. I've got this pile of trash on VHS still from when I was in middle school. You should totally review the movie R.O.T.O.R. sometime.
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I love the Messiah scene. Though, I think it would have been funnier if he wasn't wearing parts under the robe, or at least cut off jeans.
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Was the whole mockery of Christianity thing at the end really necessary?
Other than that, great review
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That isn't a mockery of Christianity. It's a spoof of a scene from "The Tormentors" in which a group of hippies listen to a speach from a peacenick named "The Messiah."
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This was a good review. This is what I love about The Snob - it's not just "bashing for laughs", but you can do a more real review by keeping it informative, still funny and not forced.
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Also an older friend that I have told me once he met Charles a couple of times. And he said don't believe a word he says it's all lies. And I thought whoa really? You really met Charles? But it wasn't appropriate to get into the details.
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@ 0:34 It's fucking Nazi Xorn again!
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I noticed that the sound was off after you made the joke about the lady from your uncle's bowling team (around 6:45), it looked like her face got edited out in that second.. convenient
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Dancing with a skeleton? Simply priceless!
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Am I the only one who thought Brad was going to suggest the random night cityscape intermission footage from The Room at the beginning?
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Great review, as always. Love the Clerks reference.
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Did someone just make a Mungo Jerry reference? Well alright alright alright.
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just watched father'sday (2011)- hahahahaha
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The random video footages of Charles Manson, and the return of Hippie Messiah Jerrid made my day. XD
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Hey Snob I am a 100% fan of all your reviews and movie and while perusing my movie collection I found an old movie I have seen in a while my self. It is called "The Island" staring Michael Cain filmed in 1980. I remember how much you loved the 80's I thought what a better movie for you to review than this film. I hope you can get around to it is one my guilty pleasures. Here is a link to it for you tube and I hope you will get the chance to review it.
http://www.you tube.com/watch?v=lNr4A-6BAGI
Also if you don't get around to seeing this comment I hope you will see it on you Facebook wall.
Thanks Brad, and don't quit what your doing.
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Return of the Jerrid "The messiah" Foiles! Is that his Alter Ego now? maybe Snob could become his Second In command to lead army of Hippies
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KUNG TAI TED AND THE MESSIAH team up!!
ONE HAS THE DIVINE FIST! THE OTHER IS DIVINE! This Summer! Jerrid Foiles! Brad Jones are! The order of St Do-ass!
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I like the song too.
It's Dark White by Music Machine.
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Great review as always.
I really like your work and I'd like to suggest a movie you might like, I guess you get ton of those, but please watch it. it's called "I saw the devil", Korean movie, which I find the most thrilling movie of the last 3-4 years. btw I am not from Korea , I am from Russia)
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Did you see his Best Movies of the Year list? "I Saw the Devil" was #1.
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In addition, to "Dark White" the song the hippies were hanging out for was "The Eagle Never Hunts the Fly", also by the Music Machine. The director must have been a fan. As a classic rock radio DJ, did you ever play their only hit, "Talk Talk". It's one of those songs that people who lived through the 1960s all seem to remember as a hit that never seemed to make the jump to classic rock radio.
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On hiding the names:
All I can think is legal reasons. The producers did not want to get sued, so everybody remains unnamed, which I think is better than giving them fake names.
On the style:
In the late 1960s, black and white was used by two different sorts of film-makers, the exploitation people and the documentarians/American art-house directors. This is a melding of the two, possibly chosen because of how monochrome film made "Night of the Living Dead" shocking and news footage-like. The violence in this film is far more serious-looking than the violence in "Snuff", and I think the film type, along with the lighting, and how the action takes place, helps that immensely.
Other films:
This may have been the first Manson flick, but it would not be the last. The documentary "Manson" (1973) is in color, features Vincent Bugliosi overacting, interviews with members of the Family on the run, and Charlie in jail (before he decided that acting weird for the camera is what people want.) This movie may still be on YouTube in 15 chunks. The only other documentary on Charles Manson I've ever sat through was "Charles Manson Superstar" (1989) which was shot of video and is just a long interview with Manson.
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What nobody gets about Charlie is that he isn't a hippie. He dressed like one, to attract people, but in truth the man is a crypto-Nazi. He wanted to start a race war, using the Tate-Bianca murders as the spark. It failed, and Manson has been in prison ever since....but Charlie doesn't care about prison; he was in prison during the late 1950s, and in boys reformatories before that. True punishment for Manson would be to deport him to Siberia and make him work as a logger; he knows institutional life too well.
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ehhh... I prefer the other Helter Skelter movie more!
Wow that last bit made Manson look more goofy than ever!
Yay the return of hippy Jesus Jerrid!
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Brad, I would love for you to review the 2011 film 'Snowtown'- true story of how a group of guys who murdered a bunch of people and stored their bodies in vats of acid. Kind of Manson
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It did not find much on this film, but I did find some photographer named Frank Howard. Maybe they are the same guy? If so then it makes sense why he did so well with cinematography.
Wish there was more info on this movie.
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To be fair, Manson was never meant to be intimidating. While he did have a criminal past, people were shocked that he was at the center of such a grisly crime spree. Basically, Manson was the brains of the operation while the more imposing Watson was the brawn. This is why Watson was also sentenced to death. While Manson may have masterminded the killings, Watson was the one who executed them. Manson would ultimately be convicted of the murders as well because of California's triggerman statute while Watson was convicted of them because he actually physically participated in them. I'm sure you know this, Brad, but the case has been drowned in so much media exposure that many people still don't know exactly what happened.
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Loved it!
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Unable to play episode?
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