Marilyn Monroe Declassified (2016) User Reviews

Interesting Look at Monroe's Death

[Michael_Elliott · 20 August 2018]

Marilyn Monroe Declassified (2016)

*** 1/2 (out of 4)

If you're a fan of Marilyn Monroe then you'll know about the countless conspiracy theories behind her suspicious death. Her death was ruled as an probable suicide but there have been countless other theories that came up over the years including it being link to John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert.

MARILYN MONROE DECLASSIFIED takes a look at the career of Monroe but there's no doubt that the main focus is on her death. If you're a fan of conspiracy theory videos then you should be entertained by this one. It's certainly not the best made film out there but there are enough interesting moments to make it worth watching.

There are several Monroe experts on hand here but the biggest surprise is seeing filmmaker Philippe Mora who is best known for making HOWLING II and THE MARSUPIALS: THE HOWLING III. It turns out that he was doing some research at the FBI and came across some documents on Monroe and a lot of the information here comes from that. W e also get older interviews with people who were involved with Monroe including the coroner who performed her autopsy. Filmmaker John Huston is also on hand from an older interview where he talks about Monroe's condition while making THE MISFITS.

As with any conspiracy video, it's going to be up to the viewer to decide whether or not they believe what they're being told. As with a lot of videos surrounding Monroe, this one here takes on the plot that her affair with the Kennedy brothers had them tell her secret stuff, which she was going to reveal. The documentary does a nice job at breaking everything down and putting it into a timeline but there are some silly moments that creepy in including her death being connected to Roswell.

MARILYN MONROE: DECLASSIFIED isn't a masterpiece but it's certainly a highly entertaining and detailed look at what might have happened to her.

Filmmakers failed to prove anything. SKIP THIS NONSENSE

[The_Boxing_Cat · 1/10 · 14 April 2019]

Marilyn Monroe's autopsy photos DO exist - this should tell you how incompetent the filmmakers are.

The "missing" yellow dye (from the medication overdose) has been debunked - the findings as reported in her autopsy have been proven with modern science that it was possible for her to have taken the pills without her stomach being filled with the yellow residue/dye.

These idiots never addressed the fact that her bedroom door was LOCKED FROM THE INSIDE, in fact the first responders had to break a window in order to gain access to her lifeless body.

If the Kennedy's wanted her dead, they most certainly would not have done it themselves! Anyone with half a brain knows Bobby Kennedy wouldn't have been there.

They expect us to swallow their pseudoscience hook, line and sinker just because two presidents joked about it on the Jimmy Kimmel show. Really? This movie must be a comedy, because it's laugh out loud funny! IF there was a UFO reference at all, maybe it was about the moon landing, oh wait! That was a fake too- right?!?!?!

Also, the CIA appeals process, as described (by another knucklehead in this movie) is a routine practice, as it is with every other government agency. It's worth noting that he says nothing about if he followed through with the appeal...and they call this a documentary!

Just about everyone in this movie has spoken about how everybody used Marilyn. How exactly was she used??? She had a fantastic career. She was a drug addict- people bent over backwards to accommodate her schedule due to her abusing drugs, which cost the studios and producers many thousands of dollars due to delays. If anything, these filmmakers AKA, conspiracy theorists are using her (memory) to make money, so yeah in that respect people have used her.

Why is it so far fetched to realize that a known drug addict could have overdosed?

These morons must think we viewers are ignorant and can feed us anything and will lap it up. Sorry dudes, you've proved NOTHING.

Cheap

[leavymusic-2 · 2/10 · 22 November 2019]

Nasty, cheaply made doc about Monroe, how many have been made now ? Note, the bad cuts in the interviews to imply, another bad film trying to cash in on the MM legacy. Awful.

Marilyn Monroe Declassified

[Benjamin_Lumb · 28 July 2023]

I have seen this documentary and I have read about how Marilyn Monroe died, and there are reasons why people question if she did take her own life. There was a police officer Lynn Franklin who pulled over Peter Lawford speeding on a road from her home just hours after she had died with Ralph Greenson and Robert Kennedy in the car. I don't believe a police officer would make something like that up. So was Peter Lawford being used either by the Mafia or the CIA?

Later in 1972 a hired contractor discovered a covert listening device installed throughout the home in Brentwood when Veronica Hamel and her then husband the new owners had paid over $100,000 to remove. Then there's the article Dorothy Kilgallen had authored suggesting Marilyn Monroe had an affair with Robert Kennedy just a day before she died. So was this article the reason for Peter Lawford to be at her home that afternoon on 4 August 1962?

Then there's Eunice Murray and her son-in-law Norman Jeffries at her home that night where she died. So was Eunice Murray waiting for a phone call from Peter Lawford that they were going to return, and did he call two times that night?

If she had accidentally overdosed on the amount Ralph Greenson had asked Eunice Murray to give her. Then Peter Lawford was still accountable, because he was wanting Ralph Greenson and Robert Kennedy to be there. "Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to the president, and say goodbye to yourself, because you're a nice guy. ... I'll see, I'll see." - Marilyn Monroe.