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‘Chaos: The Manson Murders’ Review: Errol Morris’ Netflix Documentary Captures The Frustration Of This Ever-Lasting Enigma
‘Chaos: The Manson Murders’ review: Errol Morris’s documentary captures the frustration of this ever-lasting enigma
In 1999 Tom O’Neill was commissioned by Hollywood-centric film magazine Premiere to investigate exactly what had — by then — happened a mere 30 years earlier, when a small-time criminal, Charles Manson, was unveiled as the mastermind behind one of the most brutal and defining crimes of the 20 th century. It must have seemed like an easy job back then, but by the time the title ceased trading in 2007 O’Neill still didn’t have a piece for them — as he explains with great honesty in his self-deprecating and far-ranging 2019 book CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties. To recap, if it’s needed, Manson came to notoriety as the hippie cult leader whose followers murdered Roman Polanski’s pregnant then-wife Sharon Tate on 9 August 1969, along with three of her friends (hairdresser Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, and screenwriter Voytek Frykowski) plus a random guest of the property’s pool boy (Stephen Parent).
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