Groupie (partially found Marilyn Manson short film; 1996-1998)
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What is believed to be a screenshot from Groupie, taken from Marilyn Manson's Dead to the World.
Status: Partially lost
Shot one night between 1996 and 1998 was a short film by Marilyn Manson (in his first filmmaking effort) titled Groupie. The short was recorded at an actual house party that Manson was hosting and involved a stooge actress portraying a young groupie being made to do more and more perverse and disturbing things in front of Manson's unknowing guests (who were only told that a woman would be arriving and that he would be filming her).
The film begins with Manson sucking bandmate Jeordie 'Twiggy' White's flaccid penis through a condom at the house party, before the groupie shortly thereafter arrives at the door (brandishing a piece of artwork as a gift); she is then invited inside, where things become progressively more disturbing. She is encouraged to drink Stephen 'Madonna Wayne Gacy' Bier's urine (Bier also being a member of Manson's band), which she eventually does, but only after convincing Manson to drink it too. The contents of the remainder of the short have not been made entirely clear, although it is known that the groupie is at one point tied up, a gun is introduced into the situation by Manson, a fight breaks out and blood is shed. The party's guests are said to have come away from the experience very shaken up, not knowing whether or not what had happened was legitimate, or staged (though most people agree that the film consists of both legitimate and staged events).
Manson's manager Tony Ciulla, after seeing the film, urged him to hide the master tapes, for fear that Manson would ruin his career, and possibly go to jail. The film has never been released, although a few short segments of it appeared at the end of Manson's video-album Dead to the World. The segment shows a tied up woman in a chair, with Manson offscreen. He then intimidates her into repeating the phrase "Jesus loves me because the Bible tells me so". There is currently no other footage of the short film available to the public.