''Charles Manson Superstar'' is a

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

about Charles Manson, directed by

Nikolas Schreck Nikolas Schreck is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, film-maker and Tantric Buddhist religious teacher based in Berlin, Germany. Now a solo artist, Schreck founded the musical magical recording and performance collective Radio ...

in 1989. Most of the documentary (the entire interview) was filmed inside

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. Nikolas and Zeena Schreck narrated the segments while images were shown, and music played in the background. There was brief footage of

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, and a short clip of James Nolan Mason being interviewed about the Universal Order, and Manson. Olivier Messiaen's "Death and Resurrection,"

Bobby Beausoleil Robert Kenneth Beausoleil (born November 6, 1947) is an American murderer and associate of Charles Manson and members of his communal Manson Family. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the July 27, 1969 fatal stabbing of Gary Hinman, w ...

's "Lucifer Rising,"

Krzysztof Penderecki Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (; 23 November 1933 – 29 March 2020) was a Polish composer and conductor. His best known works include ''Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima'', Symphony No. 3, his '' St Luke Passion'', '' Polish Requiem'', ' ...

's "Apocalypsis," Biff Rose's "Fill Your Heart" (Tiny Tim's version) and Anton LaVey's "The Satanic Mass," and Manson's own songs "Clang Bang Clang" and "Mechanical Man" from the album '' Lie: The Love and Terror Cult'', were played during the film. The artwork for the poster was done by painter Joe Coleman.

Transcript of raw footage of interview

Zeena Schreck's "''Easter Monday Audience with the Underworld Pope: Charles Manson Interviewed and Decoded''" is Zeena's introduction with her full transcript and annotations of the raw footage of this interview as printed in Nikolas Schreck's 2011 French and English editions of ''Le Dossier Manson: Mythe Et Réalité D’un Chaman Hors-La-Loi'' and ''The Manson File: Myth and Reality of an Outlaw Shaman'' for Camion Noir/World Operations.

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''Charles Manson Superstar'' at YouTube
{{Manson Family 1989 films American biographical films American documentary films Cultural depictions of Charles Manson 1989 documentary films 1980s English-language films 1980s American films