![]() ![]() Low-budget movies like The Love-Thrill Murders (1971), I Drink Your Blood (1971) and The Deathmaster (1972) were clearly inspired by the Manson case and kept audiences in grindhouses and drive-ins entertained with lurid tales of violent, doped-up hippies on a murderous rampage. From skid row film producers to sleazy underground paperback publishers, the sensational aspects of the savage killings committed by members of the Manson Family-from its celebrity victims and the shattering of the ‘peace and love’ illusion to the LSD orgies and charisma of the Family’s leader, Charles Manson-were a potent melting pot of ingredients ripe for exploitation. And he led them on a freaked-out sex-and-blood bath that picked up where the brutal Sharon Tate killings left off.’Īs it does with just about any moment when pop-culture meets sudden tragedy, one of the aspects of the 1969 Tate/LaBianca murders that most fascinates me is the way in which the case was portrayed – in either a quasi-factual or purely exploitational way-by the lowball media. ‘He was a saint to a “family” of potheads. ![]()
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