It was one of the most shocking crimes in the Hollywood community and this year marks its 50th anniversary. Half a century since Charles Manson’s followers, who called themselves The Manson Family, murdered popular 26 years old actress Sharon Tate together with Steven Parent, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger and Wojciech Frykowski. It was August 8, 1969.
The media world won’t miss this ephemeris and many documentaries and movies will arise with this subject this year, including Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited and already very exciting looking film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). But today we are talking about another film, a mix of biography and horror fiction, more centered in the person of Sharon Tate. Because in The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019), the young actress pregnant with director Roman Polanski‘s child and awaiting his return from Europe becomes plagued by visions of her imminent death. Undoubtfully a good twist of the facts that can drive into a creepy and scary horror story.
As a matter of fact, the plot of the film is inspired by an actual quote from Sharon Tate, from an interview published a year before her death, wherein she reveals having a nightmare in which she saw a strange man in her house and then discovered herself and her friend Jay Sebring tied up with their throats cut open.
Daniel Farrands, a horror director, producer and writer known for The Amityville Murders (2018), Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) and The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) among many other titles, and director of several documentaries centered in classic horror movies like his Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013), Scream: The Inside Story (2011) or His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th (2009), has written, directed and co-produced The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019). Certainly a good choice for such a themed project.
Hilary Duff, very popular for her roles in romantic comedies, enrolls herself in the first horror movie of her career taking over the character of Sharon Tate. Together with her, Jonathan Bennett, Lydia Hearst, Pawel Szajda, Ryan Cargill, Bella Popa, Fivel Stewart, Tyler Johnson and Ben Mellish also star.
The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019) is rated R for strong bloody violence, terror, and some language. The movie is expected to come out in the USA on the 5th of April. You can watch its first official trailer here:
