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How Growing Up in a Cult Helped Tell The Story of a Real "American Psycho"

'Charlie Says' stars Hannah Murray as a woman who comes under the influence of Charles Manson. The new Charles Manson movie isn't really about Charles Manson. Charlie Says is concerned, rather, with the women who came under Manson's spell—the women who would ultimately participate in what came to be known as the event that killed the '60s. What drove these pretty young women to murder Sharon Tate and six other people in the Los Angeles hills on that horrific night in 1969? It's a question that no one knows the answer to, save for one graduate student, Karlene Faith, who tried to help the women from the confines of their prison cells. What she found when she dug deep into the convicted murderers' psyches was a disturbing network of groupthink and undying adulation for Manson. That, and remnants of decayed individual identities. Read More...

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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 5 June, 2019

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