Marilyn Manson: Unmasked tells a disturbing story of power and abuse ...Middle East

In February 2021, the actress Evan Rachel Wood accused her former fiancé, the rock star Marilyn Manson – real name Brian Warner – of domestic abuse and rape. “He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years,” she wrote in a statement on Instagram. “I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission.” Several other women came forward to accuse Manson of sexual assault and he was dropped by his label and management instantaneously. He denies all the allegations against him.

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.”

Over the years, Alainne says, Manson groomed her, and when she was following his band on tour in 1999, he allegedly sexually assaulted her. The alleged assaults against Alainne when she was a minor by US law have been dismissed as they were too long ago, but she is suing Manson over the 1999 allegations.

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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Of all the women whom director Karen McGann interviews, they all have one thing in common: all of them are enamoured by Manson’s celebrity and cannot believe that someone as famous – as powerful – as him would want to bestow his attention upon them. That goes for Wood, too, who was famous in her own right.

Her 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.

Perhaps the most damning evidence against Manson are his own words. “Marilyn Manson is about transcending morality and sexuality,” he is heard saying on a video from his early career, before he says of women: “I like the thrill of not knowing if they’re going to pass out and die.”

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.

With legal battles still ongoing, Unmasked can’t provide definitive answers. But what it does is tell a depressingly familiar story of a man with too much power and too much protection allowed to exploit and abuse the women in his life.

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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