Don't waste your time. 70min of my life I'll never get back. Horrible "true story" adaption. Like others said, no plot or any build up. If it wasn't for the hints to it being about the manson family murders it's nothing more than people getting killed and a sad attempt at "jump scares"...Even with them tying it to the Manson family it gave nothing to this movie. If I could give 0 stars I would because it's not even worthy of the 1 it forces me to give.

It's L.A. in the summer of 1969. There have been a rash of break-ins and vandalism. After a dinner out, couple friends Sharon (Katie Cassidy),Jay (Miles Fisher),Wojciech (Adam Campbell),and Abigail (Elizabeth Henstridge) return to Sharon's hillside home. Steven comes over from the guesthouse and encounters the Manson Family.

This is based on the infamous Manson Family murders done like a horror movie. The horror motif mixed with a real incident makes me uncomfortable. The ending is known and there are no surprises. The four beautiful leads don't engender any sympathies. They aren't that compelling. They're mostly two dimensional portraits. There is no rooting interest in them. It makes the movie tired and uncompelling.

The Amazon description lets you know this film is based on the Manson murders. The production keeps that fact hidden until the end. The film concentrates on the victims. We are never introduced to the killers or know their motives. We only get glimpses of their faces. This is a less fictional account that attempts to work in terror by using dark scenes and the Manson infamous "creepy crawly" aspect. The killings were not as horrific and graphic as other films. In other films they burst in and it is well lit. In this one they stealth in the dark keeping to the accounts.

The production fell short of the intended effect, partly because we all knew there was no final girl.Knowing the ending means they need to bring something new to the film and while hiding all the faces of the killers was new...that doesn't make it. Being a mainstream production I expected more than low budget effects. There was some camera light glare in the opening police scene. In one of the stabbing scenes you can hear the knife making a spring noise. They are not even showing the knife stabbing, why are they using a loud fake retractable blade? I do miss the old stereo equipment, striped bell bottoms, TVs, and nightly station sign offs so we all knew when to go to bed.

Guide: No sex or nudity. Rated "R" for violence and language, although I don't recall hearing much dialogue. The "Purge" series or "Hell Night" type films are better for this type of horror because we don't know the ending.