The Haunting Of Sharon Tate [DVD]

The Haunting of Sharon Tate was the best movie I saw in 2019. Sharon had a revelation, vision, or dream of her & Jays death while staying at Jays for a week when he was away for a business trip. She left an article about it in an interview in 1968 that appeared in Fate magazine in 1970 about visions of her and Jays imminent death. Sharon's mother also had a vision of people dressed in black breaking into Sharon's house. Mrs. Tate recalled the vision she had 3 months before Sharon was murdered. "I saw myself with her in this room, and I was trying to get her out. A man dressed in black was shooting a gun." Mrs. Tate also recalled something that happened on the day of the funeral-something that kept her from falling apart. "Sharon's casket was closed," She said, "I went over to kiss it - and I heard her say, just as plain as if she was standing beside me, 'Mother, that's not me. Lydia Hearst of the Hearst dynasty plays Abigail Folger in the movie, and her aunt was friends with Abigail Folger. The home used in this movie was built by the same contractor that built Sharon Tate's home on 10050 Cielo Drive at around the same time in the 1940's and looks very similar. The soundtrack is excellent. Lydia and Hilary Duff were sensational in the movie.

I rarely write reviews on movies as everything is relative. Some people love them, some people hate them. But this miserable excuse for a film gave me no choice but to comment! I would give it a negative 5 if I could. I well understand why Deborah Tate was outraged by this "film" and refused to sanction it in ANY way! It does so much damage to the memories of her sister Sharon, and the other victims.I well remember these gruesome, bloody, heinous, senseless murders which shocked the world. I was only 12, from LA but living in SD then but it terrified me to the core as with the rest of the world! But what I find so incredibly hard to believe is the positive reviews I see here? What are you people thinking? Were you alive then, did you live the nightmare through all of the news footage, the ongoing media circus, the trials, the horror? Did you? And yet you have absolutely NO regards for Sharon, her family, the other victims and their families and claim that this somehow exalts Sharon with the poorest acting imaginable? You think this is some sort of "tribute to her memory" and is "art?" SHAME on YOU!!!Okay, I can try to stretch my brain just a tad to say....."okay, maybe Sharon DID have some premonitions as to her fate." I doubt that as her family and friends NEVER elude to any such thing or her fear of "Helter Skelter." Okay, okay....let's fantasize for a moment that she did foresee the future? Bottom line is the murders in this movie did somewhat (if you use your imagination and believe the Hollywood telling of this) SLIGHTLY resemble the truth. Okay so Sharon did possibly predict their demise (again nothing to substantiate this,) the murders and the events leading up to are the biggest contradiction to even the slightest facts in the case? HUH? Maybe Sharon's nightmares but nothing even CLose to what happened!this is what I find the hardest to believe the parade and idiocy and untruths which make her and her friends the "heroes" at the end for having killed their murderers, then to find them dead anyway? CODSWALLOW!!! Let us not forget that this is Hollywood sensationalism and dramatic license, but even though Sharon might have thought that Charlie and the family were going to murder them and kill her baby, the ludicrousness ot her premonitions and the absurdity makes no sense at all! So, ir you are not already bored with my comments and critiques here, here are all those pesky facts that totally unravel this embarrassing telling of the Tate murders:1.) Abigail Folger & Woichzech Frykowski were close friends of the Polanski's and there was never any evidence that they totally took over the house, nor thought Sharon was "crazy or paranoid" or were somehow involved in the plot to kill them all.2.) Steven Parent never lived at 10050 Cielo Dr. in a trailer or otherwise. He was just an 18 year old boy at the wrong place at the wrong time. He was the first to die at the gate in his crappy old Rambler, not the fancy, souped up car shown in this movie. He was only an acquaintance of caretaker Will Garrett who DID live on the premises and was only there that one fateful night. He was NOT estranged from his family as the movie implies. No one could even figure out his connection to the victims at the time which made it hard to solve his murder. He was far from a Ham radio nerd who was the ultimate hero and savior of Sharon. More hogwash!3.) Jay Sebring did not live at the bottom of the steps from the house on Cielo Dr. nor did he drive a black Mustang. He drove a black Porsche and Sharon, a red Ferrari. Nor did he arrive at the house later sayong "he just left the restaurant, when he happened upon the murders. They had ALL gone to dinner at "El Coyote" (been there myself, one of my favorite Mexican restaurants in LA!) The night of the murders and all were in good spirits (no panic or paranoia,) relaxed and talking, but the heat was bad so Sharon was wearing a bikini bra and panties, not that awful polka dot dress that she borrowed from "Linda Kasabian." Historians...am I right here? Again....NO, NO evidence that Sharon was anything but happy with her friends, had NO premonitions or feared for her life in any way. She was simply "cocooning:" and looking forward to the birth of her baby.4.) There is no evidence that Charles Mason ever visited Cielo Dr. when the Polanski's lived there other than one documented that Sharon might have witnessed. There was no mystery reel-to-reel turning itself on, nor any of the numerous manilla envelope packages addressed to Terry Melcher. Likewise all these stupid visits by charlie and the family to Cielo, NEVER happened. Charlie stopped by one DAY looking for Terry Melcher and was turned away . Not pounding on the door. The "family did not terrorize the house nightly, breaking in night after night, terrorizing the residents and had them fleeing. The Mason girls chanting the most ridiculous line in this movie or any! ""Little piggies, let us in, or we'll huff and puff and blow your house in." I wanted to laugh if I wasn't so embarrassed for them!5.) The incredibly STUPID flee to Steven Parent's trailer which never existed (though as he was from El Monte, that would explain it.) a couple of the victims mortally injured, managed to make it to the safety of the trailer where Steven Parent managed to repair a hopelessly ruined Ham radio set in 5 minutes. Forget again that Steven Parent never even MET the victims.6.) Oh and despite their stabbings, shootings and injuries, they still managed to kill their murderers while loudly proclaiming as Sharon did "F...YOU!" Great in theory but the reality was far more heinous, chilling, and with unimaginable horror and terror! To this day, even the most hardened detectives will never forget the most brutal, savage, butchery of the 20th century!So again I say to all of you who thought this movie was a "work of art," how it gave Sharon Tate "humanity" and how somehow the ending was appropriate? You should be ashamed of yourselves! This deceitful and exploitive piece of trash is just that and it dirtys the memory of those who died! Imagine if this was YOUR family? You have tried and tried to come to accept this tragedy for over 51 years and then to have your loved one played for a fool (and badly in the acting,) and made to look like a helpless, bawling, insane, paranoid little woman who could only accept the inevitable. And in closing....FINALLY, sorry you all! The ending, yeah, the ending many of you thought was touching and endearing as well as satisfying. Are you HIGH! To see their butchered bodies in sheets soaked in their blood and then to see Sharon looking at the bodies and herself, then outside the gates and her friends all smiling like this was some sort of "homecoming?" It wa shameful and I doubt they felt that they we all "delivered" and I doubt their families left behind would think of them all standing together smiling, one happy family. One word...SHAMEFUL!!! I guess Hilary Duff is as classless as the the pathetic movie she not only starred in, but co-produced!!!Just sayin......

I suppose you had to have grown up in the shadow of the Tate-LaBianca murders to fully grasp the material in this unusual film. The low ratings made me expect to despise this film, but some of the more stellar reviews gave me the impetus to actually watch and decide for myself. Wow, was I pleasantly surprised. If our lives are determined by fate, then history can not be re-written. However; maybe in a parallel universe, we can overcome our past. The film "The Haunting of Sharon Tate" poses that very question. Can our lives have alternative endings? Perhaps.Hillary Duff plays a charming and genuine imagining of Sharon Tate and actually gives her a persona that few have ever seen. Since Duff has done a lot of kids' movies and whimsical roles, I laughed when I saw that she was playing Sharon Tate. Was I ever wrong to pre-judge. She really gave heart and strength to a character who never lived to show the world who she was and I admire her for taking on this challenging role. The actor who portrayed Steven Parent was also very good. I know this case very well and do not have a problem with this fictionalized version. You simply have to watch it to the end to understand what I mean.Sharon Tate's sister did not approve of this film and I can understand many of the reasons why; however, I think she was wrong about one thing. This does not "glorify" the murderers and changes the point of view regarding victimhood. Sometimes the tiniest things can have a resounding affect on our lives and given the chance, Sharon may never have had to endure such an ignominious fate.Not for the faint-of-heart because of violence and strong adult material.

I read the book by Bugliosi in the early 70's and had previously listened to news reports. Had Manson and his followers all received the death penalty one can only hope the sensationalism would have died with them. The film is good and is told from Sharon Tate's perspective. There are a lot of "what if's" in this case. So many decisions that all of these people made(Terry Melcher, Dennis Wilson, Roman Polanski) led to the massacre of Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring (in 1968 or 1969 my oldest sister was getting her barbers license at the school), Voytek Frykowski, and Steven Parent. Hillary Duff did a great job portraying Sharon Tate, and for me, the movie drives the point home that we should remember the victims, not the perpetrators. The ending was a kind tribute to all of them moving on to the spirit realm. I gave the movie 3 stars. Could it have been better? Maybe. It didn't hit on everything that led up to the murders but then again, it is a movie not a documentary. Take it at face value and move on. Not worth getting upset over.

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Naja was soll ich zu diesem Film sagen,echt schwierig.Teils gut unterhaltsam aber auch recht wirre.Zum einmal anschauen ok.Gibt durchaus bessere Filme.Muß sich jeder sein eigenes Bild von machen.Ich würde nicht zum Kauf raten.

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Mich hat die Story sehr interessiert, auch um Charles Manson,daher habe ich mir den Film bestellt um die andere Seite zu sehen aus der Sicht von Sharon Tate. Spannend. Kann den Film weiter empfehlen.