CHAOS: The Manson Murders

Name: CHAOS: The Manson Murders
Genre: Crime, Documentary
Released: March 7, 2025
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 62

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): March 7, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: CHAOS: The Manson Murders untangles a web of conspiracy involving the CIA, LSD, Jack Ruby, the Manson Family, and Vincent Bugliosi, casting doubt on the official story of the 1960s’ most infamous killing spree.

Genre(s): Crime, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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Alissa Wilkinson

Mar 7, 2025

This isn’t just about fringe cults on ranches anymore: It’s about social groups, theories about the world, the bubble you float around in on the internet, the candidate you believe in an election. Read full review

John Anderson

Mar 7, 2025

There are many more questions in “CHAOS” than hard answers, but one thing is clear, namely the hypnotic quality of Mr. Morris’s filmmaking, enhanced to no small end by the dread in Paul Leonard-Morgan’s score and even in the demo recordings by Manson of his songs (which might have been sung by someone like Johnny Mathis, weirdly enough). Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 13, 2025

Only Errol Morris could make a murderer in prison come off more credible than pretty much anybody else in a true crime documentary. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

Mar 7, 2025

Maybe the Manson murders are not meant for easy explanation, which in part seems to be what Morris is getting at. Maybe we’ll never really know the answers. But we don’t seem to be able to stop looking for them. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Mar 7, 2025

“CHAOS” ends up suggesting that the Manson murders were a grand plot, orchestrated from on high (by the CIA? the Deep State? Nixon?) to turn America against the counterculture. I don’t believe that theory for a second, but there’s one way I think it stays true to the spirit of Charles Manson: It’s pure madness. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Mar 7, 2025

It’s a complicated meta-commentary delivered loosely in the guise of a ghoulish conspiracy thriller, presented in rushed form to an audience that would happily devour many more hours of the actual ghoulish conspiracy thriller that this is not. Read full review

Screen Rant Ben Gibbons

Mar 12, 2025

This story alone is gripping enough to warrant further study, but this documentary has very little in the way of actually exploring the case so much as it focuses on the conspiracies surrounding it. Read full review

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