John Roecker - Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blo

Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature -- screening Friday and Saturday only at the Avalon -- the key to amping up the gore is an old standby: puppets.

- John Roecker

source: "John Roecker's 'Freaky' Puppet Show" by Christina Talcott, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.