Hippie exploitation films explained

Hippie exploitation films are late 1960s-early-to-late 1970s exploitation films about the hippie counterculture^[1] 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,^[2] 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.^[3]

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."^[4] Other examples include The Love-ins, Psych-Out, The Trip, and Wild in the Streets.^[5]

Notable examples

• The Wild Angels (1966)^[6]
• Hallucination Generation (1967)^[2]
• Riot on Sunset Strip (1967)^[2]
• The Love-Ins (1967) ^{[7] [3]}
• The Trip (1967)^[2]
• I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968)^[2]
• Psych-Out (1968)^[2]
• Revolution (1968)^[2]
• Wild in the Streets (1968)^[2]
• The Big Cube (1969)^[2]
• Eggshells (1969)^[2]
• I Drink Your Blood (1970)^{[8] [9]}
• Joe (1970)^[5]
• Woodstock (1970)^[2]
• The Night God Screamed (1971)^[10]
• Last House on the Left (1972)^[5]
• Thumb Tripping (1972)^[2]
• Helter Skelter (1976)^[5]
• Hair (1979)^[2]

Filmmakers associated with hippie exploitation

• John G. Avildsen^[5]
• Roger Corman^[11]
• Wes Craven^[5]
• Tobe Hooper^[2]
• Richard Rush^[12]

See also

• List of films related to the hippie subculture
• New Hollywood
• Extreme cinema

External links

• YouTube- Hippie Exploitation Movie Trailers from the 1960s

Notes and References

1. Web site: MONDO MOD WORLDS OF HIPPIE REVOLT AND OTHER WEIRDNESS . 2011-12-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131112091111/http://thesocietyofthespectacle.com/2009/04/mondo-mod-worlds-of-hippie-revolt-and-other-weirdness/ . 2013-11-12 . dead .
2. 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
3. https://www.flavorwire.com/531996/50-far-out-films-about-hippie-subculture 50 Far-Out Films About Hippie Subculture - Flavorwire
4. Web site: "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 . 2011-12-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120414224358/http://www.steamshovelpress.com/fromeditor48.html . 2012-04-14 . dead .
5. https://horrornews.net/125349/top-10-hippie-horror-films/ Top 10 Hippie Horror Films|HNN
6. 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
7. Web site: Jeff Stafford . The Love-Ins . Turner Classic Movies . Turner Sports and Entertainment Digital Network . 2009 . 2009-04-05.
8. http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/19580 10 Strange Things You'd Better Not Eat or Drink! - Bloody Disgusting
9. https://filmschoolrejects.com/charles-manson-hippie-hysteria-exploitation/ How Exploitation Movies Exploited Charles Manson and Hippie Hysteria - Film School Rejects
10. https://vimeo.com/109836632 THE NIGHT GOD SCREAMED (Lee Madden, 1971) on Vimeo
11. https://books.google.com/books?id=8Lm9DwAAQBAJ 'Grease Is the Word' - Google Books (pg.93)
12. https://pleasekillme.com/hollywood-hippies/ HOW HOLLYWOOD HANDLED THE HIPPIES - Please Kill Me Online