The Manson Family: Born to Kill? (2012)

• 71%
• 2012
• Neil Edwards

During mid-1967's California flower power era, unemployed ex-convict and musician Charles Milles Manson, the unwanted and often jailed son of a prostitute, gathered a group of middle class flower children whom he developed into absolutely obedient followers. Extensive prison time throughout most of his life, which long since inured him from fearing punishment, made him institutionalized and dangerous, and a leader who needed followers. Ostensibly to ignite a race war between whites and blacks, he sent forth his mindless minions, his "Manson Family," to carrying out his personal hatred of, and frustrations with, society. Following seven shockingly brutal deaths in July and August of 1969, with slogans written in the victims' own blood (making infamous and ever after associative the Beatles song title "Helter Skelter"), Charles Manson's name would become forever synonymous with evil.