How American Horror Story: Cult recreated the Manson Murders

The Hollywood Reporter

Ryan Murphy had been wanting to devote a season of American Horror Story to Charles Manson for several years. "I had been working on it and researching it, but it never felt right to me because it's been done a million times and I didn't know how to make it fresh," he says. "But the thing that I just kept being drawn back to was the idea about cult of personalities.”