Leslie, my name is evil

Charles Manson and his followers have inspiredcountless products of popular culture, mostof them focusing on the grisly details of themurders they committed in 1969. In LESLIE ,MY NAME IS EVIL, Harkema instead choose thepath of satire - mirroring the Manson-inducedhysteria against the social norms of the times.Through a combination of stylistic camp and theformat of conventional courtroom dramas, thefilm stresses the trial's political significance ina decade overshadowed by the Vietnam War andthe assassination of JFK.

The film centers on a devote young Christian.During the Manson-trial, Perry gets called infor jury duty and suddenly faces a completelynew world of drugs and free love, finding himselftaken with one of the members of the family - agirl named Leslie. The more Perry learns aboutLeslie the more he begins to question the rulesthat society has imposed on them both.

Contrasting the mania of the Manson familywith the fundamentalist-Christian beliefs ofPerry's family, Harkema poses the question: Whois scariest, the people on trial or the jurors?
SHELLY JOHNSON

Cast
Don MCKELLAR, Gregory SMITH, Kristen HAGER, Ryan ROBBINS, Tracy WRIGHT: Producer
Jennifer JONAS, Leonard FARLINGER: Script
Reginald Harkema: Cinematography
Jonathon Cliff: Music
Paul Kehayas: Spoken language
English