So true. I mean, everyone would be excited all week for the ABC, NBC, or CBS Movie of the Week. It was an event. Some of them really were fantastic. Others, not so much. But, we ALL watched them and had something in common to talk about, unlike today, where no one is watching the same thing, at the same time.
@@danabaker596 Yes!!! The ABC Tuesday Night Movie of the week was awesome. It was always scary on Tuesdays. We all talked about it at school the next day.
Seeing this scene again after sooooo many years and now knowing all about the crimes, the victims the horror, this guy did a great job playing Tennant. His reaction of seeing Sharon was so genuine and real, I seriously just had tears rush to my eyes.
I remember when I saw this on TV the first time in the early 80s. I was a kid, but recall being nauseated & scared. It had an effect on me even as a nine year old, and I also thought the sound was weird too. The part that got me sick to my stomach was when the Susan Atkins character was describing what they did with absolute glee. It was sick!
I'm right there with you. I was a kid too then. I believe I was 9 or 10 when I saw it. It was late at night and I was in my parents bed watching it while they were asleep. Their door to the hallway was partially opened and there was no light in the room except from the tv. I could have sworn I saw the door move. I felt like I was being watched. I was too scared to go close the door so I pulled the covers up over my head and had to listen to the movie and that terrifying music. I have never been that scared since. I believe that was the scariest movie I ever saw as a child.
I met Steve rails back and I talked to him about this movie and how good he was playing Charles Manson,I asked him what it took to prepare for a part like that and he said he went to visit Charlie in prison and he watched all his mannerisms,and his facial expressions to get them down perfect for the part and he said he would never forget that experience meeting Charles Manson!!!!
a detail that they got wrong about Steven Parent, is that he wasn't found lying prone in his car as this movie suggests, but in reality, he was found sitting upright in the driver's seat. Abigail Folger was found lying face up as well
@@warclassics The biggest mystery is how the caretaker got away with his life. My guess is that, after Stephen Parent left, the caretaker put out all the lights so as to go to bed. Either the killers did not notice the darkened guest house, or if they did notice it, they assumed no one was there because it was darkened. That guy must have had nightmares for the rest of his life.
@@nassauguy48. Pat actually was ordered to make sure no one was in the guest house just before they left. Pat merely turned the doorknob and walked off. Garrettson heard her footsteps recede and was freaked out to find the door ajar in the middle of the night. Pat had come to her senses by that time and had no fight left in her, she reportedly said.
@@warclassics Chapman actually did see him on her way out as she fled the scene in horror - she didn't come in through the main gate when she arrived so didn't see Parent's Rambler initially
There were some variations in the positions of the victims. Stephen Parent was sitting up and slumped over rather than spread out on his back. Abigail Folger was on her back and looking upward rather than on her stomach.
I saw this movie when it first came out in 1976. I was 14 years old then. I enjoyed the movie, but was horrified at what happened to these poor, innocent people who did nothing to deserve this. I was even more horrified when the Supreme Court overturned the death sentences of Charles Manson and his monstrous followers. If anyone deserved the death penalty it was these scumbags. Manson, I hope you and your dead followers are enjoying hell. There's plenty of room there for the rest of his minions.
There are so many false things in this instance. Who faced checked this? Ms. Folger was face up, not faced down. And who walks a c 3:00 0 crime scene and disrupts a crime scene by stepping on and disrupting a crime scene,?st
