Dir. Michael Gonzales | 1997 | USA | 42 min | VHS

From the Ed Wood school of filmmaking comes this hilariously inept Christian docu-drama short, produced by the students at Biola University and designed to uplift us with the story of Charles ‘Tex’ Watson’s miraculous salvation, from Charles Manson’s most savage aid to redeemed (albeit still incarcerated) church minister within ten short years. As Watson, Paul McGinty at times resembles a young Keanu Reeves (and looks ridiculous as he sits in prison wearing a wig and moustache that look to have been made out of cardboard, staring stone-faced as he answers questions put to him by a young lady dressed as an Amy Grant wannabe). Mark Caso plays a well-fed Charles Manson in this cheesy yet wholly enjoyable exercise in spiritual recruitment.

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