‘Chaos: The Manson Murders’ Review: Errol Morris’ Netflix Doc Explores the Secret History of Charles Manson

While it’s debatable whether Charles Manson was actually the Devil, he was undoubtedly a cultural and political focal point, someone whose magnetically evil spirit forced an unlikely convergence of multiple 20^th century developments. The dark side of 1960s sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll certainly found purchase in the formation and eventual cataclysm of the Manson Family, the cult of impressionable souls brainwashed into committing horrific violence, but Manson came to embody much more…