Trailer for Psych-Out (1968)
Trailer for the 1968 movie Psych-Out, starring Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Susan Strasberg, and Dean Stockwell.
From Wikipedia, which has a thorough plot synopsis:
Psych-Out is a 1968 feature film about hippies, psychedelic music, and recreational drugs, produced and released by American International Pictures. Originally scripted as The Love Children, the title when tested caused people to think it was about bastards, so Samuel Z. Arkoff came up with the ultimate title based on a recent successful reissue of Psycho.(via PCL Linkdump)
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My lady and I saw this on one of the "classic" movie channels a couple of years ago. Living/Working in and around San Francisco my whole life added to the fun experience.
If you get a chance, it's worth seeing.
A highlight: Nicholson's band lip-syncs poorly to a Strawberry Alarm Clock tune.
(or was it The Seeds? I'm gonna have to watch it again.)
"Incense & Peppermints", and yes...definitely check it out. Bruce Dern IS jesus.
This reminds me of the Sonny Bono PSA about marijuana. There was a scene where he warned you about a "bummer" which resulted in someone seeing a zombie. Couldn't find the whole thing on youtube.
Check Psychic TV's Jack the Tab project for a most excellent use of audio samples from this film. See Skidoo for more ridiculous hippy exploitation, featuring Jackie Gleason tripping on acid - truly terrible, and let's not (ever) forget The Trip. Personally I much prefer Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, directed by Russ Meyer, written by Roger Ebert!
Here's another piece of fascinating cultural psychedelic ephemera, Dragnet's "Blueboy" LSD episode.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0zgIzqgxFU
This looks so excellent. I am going to have to Netflix it. Although it's only going to make me like SF less, I'm afraid, for all that has changed.
Acid Zombies!
Ok, I'll attest to the realism in the "Warren's freak-out in the gallery." It reminded me of one Halloween years ago when I thought the police officers wandering among the crowd had zombie make-up on! Good times.
No 60's LSD movie involving Jack Nicholson will ever be better than The Trip.
Oops, I forgot linkage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmScBRuZF0c
I love the fact that this is a Dick Clark production.
That trailer was "groovy" and "out of sight" until the end, which had "bad vibes" and really "bummed me out", "man".
Wow I was just listening to FSOL while watching the trailer, awesome!! (Song was: Yage - from "Dead Cities" by FSOL)
Not only is it a Dick Clark production, but nearly every actor in the cast is Over 30.
I saw this a month or two ago. While ostensibly celebrating hippie culture, it actually undermines it almost ocnstantly, adding to the stereotype of dirty hippies who are actually hypocrites when it comes to peace and love.
But it has Max Julien! Better, though, to Netflix "The Mack," in which Julien almost singlehandedly invents pimp culture.
Lol. Dude, what was up with the bad-trip ending of the trailer? Total bummer, man. ;)
I got a great deal on the double-feature DVD with Corman's The Trip on side 2, and just screened 'em both a couple months ago.
Of the two, and despite the cheesier moments and occasional bit of exploitation, I found Psych-Out the better film. I definitely identified with the Dean Stockwell character, although (spoiler alert) his trip gets seriously bummed out in the final act.
As Crawford Tillinghast mentioned above, the most available DVD is a double feature with The Trip, which also happens to be the superior film.
Not merely dated camp, The Trip will actually blow your mind.
FACTOID: That guy in the muttonchops threatening to cut off his hand with a chainsaw is Henry Jaglom.
Haha! Linked from my YouTube account! I have a ton more exploitation/drive-in trailers posted if you're into that sort of thing.
http://www.youtube.com/user/sideshowcarny
I've got to put this on my Netflix queue. The Trip is one of my all-time favorite movies (written by Nicholson and although the credits list Roger Corman as director, even he admits that Peter Fonda did most of the second unit work).
I saw that one at an sf convention with the enhancement of a tab of very good acid, and the presenters passed out oranges to the audience during the early segment of Fonda's trip, claiming that it was being presented in "Feel-O-Vision."
Oh those wacky hippies! I'm sure baby boomers will eat this stuff up, seeing as they are so stuck on the 60's.
#22,
Urban Myth: baby boomers are stuck on the 60s. Most of them didn't even know it was happening. They slid easily into the 70s and all its faux 60s affectations.
The people most resentful of the hippies are those who were permanently pissed off that their older brothers and sisters seemed to be having a better time than they were having.
By the time they were ready to suit up it was too late and they had to settle for Qualudes, Ripple, David Cassidy, and Peter Max. I'd be pissed off too.