Channel 4’s disturbing three-part documentary series, Marilyn Manson: Unmasked, hears from some of these women. Among them is Bianca Alainne, who says – visibly trembling, her voice shaky – she first met Manson aboard his tour bus aged 16 where she was pressured into having sex with him. “I’m so ashamed,” she sobs. “I feel so stupid.”
Manson’s brand of shock rock found him fame in the 90s (Photo: Brian Rasic/Getty Images/Channel4)
In what soon becomes a trend whenever an accusation is made against Manson, his lawyer, Howard King, denies them. In Alainne’s case, he says that the pair never met and that he has “declarations from credible witnesses there at the time” that prove as much. “It’s completely fabricated,” he argues. With legal cases ongoing, Unmasked is undeniably stunted in how far it can take its unmasking of Manson. Still, the story is better told and legally mitigated than not at all.
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Read MoreHer testimony is distressing, but she delivers it with passion and integrity. She alleges that on the set of Manson’s music video “Heart-Shaped Glasses”, he raped her under some sheets in front of the entire crew. She says that one night, after Manson had kept her awake and on drugs for three days straight, he took her to a room and made her simulate suicide – in her fugue state, she thought they were really going to kill themselves. Manson denies all the accusations, but in November last year dropped his defamation case against Wood.
Manson’s former fiancée Evan Rachel Wood was the first woman to come forward publicly (Photo: Channel 4)
In a Rolling Stone interview, he once likened himself to the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; some of the things he says on stage about underage girls are too vile to rewrite here. The question is whether it’s all part of his provocateur bluster, or if Manson was telling us who he really is.
This isn’t just a documentary about Manson, but about the structures that allow men like him to do whatever they want – and apparently get away with it. Wood says it best in the final scenes of the film: “This will keep happening until the system changes.”
‘Marilyn Manson: Unmasked’ continues tomorrow at 10pm on Channel 4
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