There are some heartbreaking sections of this film and the murders are depicted as gruesomely as they were committed. However, the moment I was most emotional was during the sections where an interview from a year before that shows Duff as Sharon in black and white, talking about psychic experiences. She says “I think my whole life was cut out by fate, I never planned anything that happened to me.” Little did she know how true this was. I’m very happy that a film attempted to capture these crimes from the side of the victims, with all of the other Manson related films coming out over the course of this year and the next. I’m hoping that they take a cue from The Haunting of Sharon Tate and devote a little bit of time on the victims instead of continuing to romanticize a psychopath, no matter how interesting Manson was.
The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019) Written and directed by Daniel Farrands. Starring Hillary Duff, Jonathan Bennett, Lydia Hearst, Pawel Szajda, Ryan Cargill, Bela Popa, Fivel Stewart, Tyler Johnson, Ben Mellish.
9 out of 10 stars
the fact that you gave a positive review to this piece of garbage completely undermines your credentials as a critic. In face, what are your credentials? Your press credentials should be pulled immediately. Ugh
If you thought that this was a good film, then you may want to consider another pursuit. This film was an abomination and should never have been made, Go to Rotten Tomatoes and read the reviews from the “Top Critics” and maybe you’ll get a clue.
This review is on rotten tomatoes.
This is a stinker. Badly acted, badly staged, badly lit and really distasteful.
John Moraga: I enjoyed this film too for many of the same reasons. Every now and then Hillary Duff really manages to pull something off (“Stranger”), and this is one of them. In my opinion this film, and the director’s cut of “London Fields,” are two of the most vastly underrated of recent years. Can’t help wondering what’s behind it…
Who paid you to write this review? The movie was not only tasteless, but the acting was atrocious. Shame on you for leading people into spending money and time to watch this. It was truly horrible.
This was an intense, moving and gripping film. The audience I saw it with were shocked and some even moved to tears at the end. I was impressed by Hilary Duff’s performance. I suspected that because of the change in narrative something was up and there would be a twist ending, which there was. Having the entire movie set in Purgatory, after the murders took place, and telling the story from the point of view of Sharon and her friends as trapped spirits was, I felt, inventive and very creative. I enjoyed seeing the Manson cult getting what was coming to them. I liked the ending where Sharon and her friends were set free and walked down the road to heaven or whatever the afterlife would now take them. Brilliant and touching film.
Before things go down Sharon and Jay have a conversation when she asks him whether he thinks their fates are pre-determined. Jay says this: “I think there’s infinite choices, infinite realities. We’re probably living out different versions of our own story for… who knows? Probably forever, at least until we get it right”
They replay this conversation at the end of the movie, so the director wanted to make sure we get what the movie is about. I believe that the dreams Sharon has are memories from alternate realities where the murders have already taken place, but through the dreams she gets the chance to make different decisions, so they can survive. I also like how Sharon at the end in an interview excerpt says: “I guess you could say I live in a fairytale world, looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will”. Almost as if the director was telling the audience: I know that these murders did happen and Sharon Tate and the others are not with us anymore. But I would like to believe that our reality is only one of many, and in an other reality they are alive and well. You might say this is like believing in fairytales, but that’s just the way I am.
Are you kidding, This was a terrible film. Check out Rotten Tomatoes and read the reviews from the “top Critics”.