Watch a trailer for the "most definitive" documentary yet about the Manson Family
Credit Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood, his depiction on Mindhunter, or just our enduring fascination with history’s most charismatic monsters, but Charles Manson continues to invade our cultural discourse, despite his family of acid-addled followers dissolving more than five decades ago.
Next month, Epix will premiere what it’s calling “the most comprehensive telling of the Manson Family yet told in a visual medium.” Called Helter Skelter: An American Myth, the six-part docuseries touts “never-before-accessed interviews” with on-the-ground journalists and former members of the Manson Family, as well as archival footage and newly-unearthed images.
“It will upend what people think they know about this layered and complex story,” promises a press release, which has us wondering if its findings dovetail at all with last year’s CHAOS: Charles Manson, The CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties, a book aiming to connect Manson to mind control experiments conducted by the CIA.