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"What attracted me is I don't understand why we are still talking about it,' says Helter Skelter: An American Myth director Lesley Chilcott of why she wanted to make a docuseries on Charles Manson. Looking at the backstory behind the frustrated musician, and new perspectives on his Family, the Sixties counterculture…

A woman who was part of arguably the most notorious murder spree in California history has been denied parole again. Leslie Van Houten was part of the Charles Manson group that murdered grocer Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, in Los Feliz the night after another group of Manson followers killed actress Sharon…

UPDATE, OCTOBER 28: The site of the infamous murder of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca by the Charles Manson gang is back on the market. Zak Bagans, the star of the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures, bought the house last year when it was listed at $1.98 million. Bagans reportedly bought the home for a film production. But…

UPDATED, 12:01 PM: Epix said today that Helter Skelter: An American Myth will premiere at  10 p.m. Sunday, July 26. Read details of the docuseries below. PREVIOUSLY, June 4: Helter Skelter: An American Myth, a six-part docuseries about Charles Manson exec produced by Greg Berlanti, has been pushed back by Epix. The…

Epix has dropped the trailer for Helter Skelter, its six-part docuseries about Charles Manson and his crimes. Just over 50 years after what came to be known as “The Tate–LaBianca murders,” Epix has produced the “most comprehensive” onscreen exploration of the Manson Family ever aired. Helter Skelter: An American Myth…

EXCLUSIVE: Epix is exploring the story of Charles Manson and his followers in a docuseries from An Inconvenient Truth producer Lesley Chilcott, Berlanti Productions, Rogue Atlas Productions and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television. The MGM-owned broadcaster has ordered six-part series Helter Skelter, a comprehensive…

The voices on the phone were more like whispers. It was as if no one could give full voice to the dreaded news. "I'm locking the doors and pulling down the blinds," said one caller, a top film director. "It's like a doomsday scenario." Fifty years ago, Hollywood was frozen by news of the Charles Manson murders, a dark…

U.S. broadcaster Reelz is to air a documentary series about Charles Manson's family – funded by British distributor DRG. Manson's Bloodline is a four-part series that will tell the story of Charles Manson's grandson, Jason Freeman, and how he came to terms with his notorious grandfather's murder spree. It comes in…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is exploring the gruesome murders carried out by Charles Manson's 'family' in a new Liev Schreiber-narrated documentary special based on a vault of unseen footage of the cult. I hear that the broadcaster has ordered two-part Inside The Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes from Naked Entertainment. The…

Sony has dated Quentin Tarantino’s untitled Charles Manson-themed ninth directorial effort — which Deadline consistently has been breaking the exclusive news about — for August 9, 2019. That date marks the 50th anniversary of Sharon Tate’s murder at the hands of the Manson “family.” Tarantino has been hoping hard that…

Charles Manson, the sick mind behind a Los Angeles killing spree in 1969 that ended in seven murders including pregnant actress Sharon Tate, has died tonight in a Bakersfield, CA, hospital. He was 83. Manson hung around the fringes of show business in the ’60s then created his reign of terror, and has spent the past…

EXCLUSIVE: Word has gotten out that Quentin Tarantino’s next film will be a drama revolving around the Manson Family murders. Deadline has heard that Tarantino met with Margot Robbie to potentially play Sharon Tate, the actress wife of director Roman Polanski who was slain in 1969 in a brutal murder whose…