hippie exploitation films
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Hippie exploitation films are late 1960s-early-to-late 1970s exploitation films about the hippie counterculture{{Cite web |url=http://thesocietyofthespectacle.com/2009/04/mondo-mod-worlds-of-hippie-revolt-and-other-weirdness/ |title=MONDO MOD WORLDS OF HIPPIE REVOLT AND OTHER WEIRDNESS |access-date=2011-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112091111/http://thesocietyofthespectacle.com/2009/04/mondo-mod-worlds-of-hippie-revolt-and-other-weirdness/ |archive-date=2013-11-12 |url-status=usurped }} with situations associated with the movement such as marijuana and LSD use, sex and wild psychedelic parties.
Overview
From almost the beginning, Hollywood and independent studios got in on the action and produced a number of extremely lurid hippie exploitation (and/or hippie horror) films that were either supporting the subversive playful artistic side of the culture war,[https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/notebook-soundtrack-mix-12-trippin-on-eggshells-the-hippie-exploitation-mix Notebook Soundtrack Mix #12: Trippin' on Eggshells — The Hippie Exploitation Mix on MUBI] or masquerading as cautionary public service announcements, but which were in fact aimed directly at feeding a morbid public appetite while pretending to take a moral stance.[https://www.flavorwire.com/531996/50-far-out-films-about-hippie-subculture 50 Far-Out Films About Hippie Subculture - Flavorwire]
Often depicting drug-crazed hippies living and freaking out in "Manson family" style communes, such films as The Hallucination Generation (1967) and Riot on Sunset Strip (1967) depicted "hippie" youths running wild in an orgy of group sex, drugs, crime and even murder."{{Cite web |url=http://www.steamshovelpress.com/fromeditor48.html |title="The Summer of Love Breeds a Season of Hate: The Effects of the Manson Murders on Public Perceptions of the Hippie Lifestyle" by Curt Rowlett |access-date=2011-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414224358/http://www.steamshovelpress.com/fromeditor48.html |archive-date=2012-04-14 |url-status=dead }} Other examples include The Love-ins, Psych-Out, The Trip, and Wild in the Streets.[https://horrornews.net/125349/top-10-hippie-horror-films/ Top 10 Hippie Horror Films|HNN]
Notable examples
- The Wild Angels (1966)[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/movies/homevideo/hey-man-dig-the-crazy-hippie-flicks-the-wild-angels-and-psych-out.html Hey, Man, Dig the Crazy Hippie Flicks ‘The Wild Angels’ and ‘Psych-Out’ - The New York Times]
- Hallucination Generation (1967)
- Riot on Sunset Strip (1967)
- The Love-Ins (1967) {{cite web | author=Jeff Stafford | title=The Love-Ins | url=https://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/184995 | work=Turner Classic Movies | publisher=Turner Sports and Entertainment Digital Network | year=2009 | access-date=2009-04-05}}
- The Trip (1967)
- I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)
- Psych-Out (1968)
- Revolution (1968)
- Wild in the Streets (1968)
- The Big Cube (1969)
- Eggshells (1969)
- I Drink Your Blood (1970)[http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/19580 10 Strange Things You'd Better Not Eat or Drink! - Bloody Disgusting][https://filmschoolrejects.com/charles-manson-hippie-hysteria-exploitation/ How Exploitation Movies Exploited Charles Manson and Hippie Hysteria - Film School Rejects]
- Joe (1970)
- Woodstock (1970)
- The Night God Screamed (1971)[https://vimeo.com/109836632 THE NIGHT GOD SCREAMED (Lee Madden, 1971) on Vimeo]
- Thumb Tripping (1972)
- Helter Skelter (1976)
- Hair (1979)
=Filmmakers associated with hippie exploitation=
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P1Yq8dyyaw YouTube - Hippie Exploitation Movie Trailers from the 1960s]
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