# Helter Skelter (1976)

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**Runtime**: 184 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie, Horror
**Directed by**: Tom Gries
**Starring**: George DiCenzo, Steve Railsback, Nancy Wolfe, Marilyn Burns, Christina Hart, Cathey Paine

> *WHISPER IT LIKE A CURSE!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Charlie’s desert drumbeat fades into a Los Angeles courtroom in August. A knife-scrawled swastika and a bloodied guitar neck sit in evidence. The Manson trial turns hippie pastoral into judicial horror. A Manson-era procedural straight from the embers of 1969.

**Mood tags**: gut-punch, paranoid, raw

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