The Other Side of Madness (aka The Helter Skelter Murders) - BLU-RAY

The Other Side of Madness (1971) returns nearly 50 years after it's initial ! An avant-garde retelling of the infamous Manson Murders, The Other Side of Madness brings audiences closer to the events than most filmmakers have dared to go, with real life footage of Spahn Ranch and music performed by Charles Manson. Directed by Frank Howard and produced by Wade Williams, this hypnotic film served as one of the first InchHelter SkelterInch recreations, filmed so close to the time of the events that Manson and his followers had yet to be sentenced for the vicious crimes.

Directed by Peter Brook (Lord of the Flies, King Lear, Meetings with Remarkable Men) and based on the Tony Award-winning play by Peter Weiss (Mirage), this spellbinding tale of Inchslashing power and disturbanceInch (The Film Daily) bristles with the riveting energy and InchexcellentInch (Variety) performances by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company, including Ian Richardson (Brazil, From Hell, Dark City) and Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, Chariots of Fire). Brimming with raving lunatics, crackling whips, catatonic seizures - and even musical interludes - Marat/Sade is an Inchexciting, overwhelming [and] stunning tour de forceInch (Boxoffice)! When notorious social critic - and inmate of Charenton's asylum for the insane - the Marquis de Sade (Magee), stages a play about the murder of the French Revolution's Jean-Paul Marat, the production takes on an alarming life of it's own. And as tempers flare, arguments rage and chaos engulfs both the sane and the mad, the inmates finally turn against their keepers in a brilliant, breathtaking and completely bizarre conclusion... that will leave you raving for more! Clifford Rose (Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides, TV's The Secret Army), Glenda Jackson (Women in Love, A Touch of Class, Sunday Bloody Sunday), Freddie Jones (Dune, The Elephant Man, Krull), and Michael Williams (Henry V, Eagle in a Cage) complete the cast.

Includes The Other Side Of The Mountain (1975)In 1955, champion skier Jill Kinmont (Marilyn Hassett) was making a bid for the U.S. Olympic team when a horrendous mountainside spill fractured her neck and paralyzed her below the shoulders. Her long, arduous, and courageous bid to reclaim a life worth living is chronicled in this inspirational, fact-based drama. Beau Bridges, Dabney Coleman, Belinda J. Montgomery co-star. 102 min. C/Rtg PG The Other Side Of The Mountain, Part 2 (1978)Though she had managed to build herself a teaching career, disabled ex-skier Jill Kinmont (Marilyn Hassett) had given up on love after the tragic loss of fiancé Dick Buek. Her perspective and fate would change after kindly trucker John Boothe (Timothy Bottoms entered her life. Tender follow-up to the inspirational favorite co-stars Belinda J. Montgomery, Nan Martin. 100 min. C/Rtg PG Widescreen; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English; interview; theatrical trailers.