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PSYCHEDELIC FILMS

lord234lord234 236 Posts
edited July 2007 in Strut Central
could you guys recommend me some good movies from the psychedelic era? i know the basic ones, but i want see some more obscure far out shit!
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  • FunkyMmonikerFunkyMmoniker 88 Posts
    "Head" starring the Monkees. My friend ripped it for me and it's really bizarre....that was watching it sober, so I can only imagine
  • obscure_addictobscure_addict 869 Posts
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  • LuminLumin 807 Posts
    one of my favorites is the hooked generation
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  • SolidState16SolidState16 181 Posts
    El Topo b/w The Holy Mountain [/b]
  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,135 Posts



    You can watch these as sober as a monk, and you'll still be asking yourself, "what the fuck?"
  • gravelheadwrapgravelheadwrap corn 948 Posts
    Someone recommended these in another thread and I have to agree:




    Both pretty "out there"
  • SolidState16SolidState16 181 Posts
    The Trip b/w Psych Out

  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts




    described by one critic as 'psychedelic film noir'



    cosign on 'HEAD'....crazy.
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    Head was a great first pick, and I support all the other films mentioned. Other psychedelic and psychedelic-aftershock films I'd add

    Dusan Makavejev's Sweet Movie and WR: Mysteries of the Organism
    Roger Corman's The Trip
    200 Motels
    Otto Premminger's Skidoo
    Nicolas Roeg's Performance, Don't Look Now, and Man Who Fell to Earth
    Antonioni's Blow-Up and Zabriskie Point
    Zulawski's Possession
    Djibril Diop Mambety's Touki Bouki (African psych from 1973!)
    Bill Norton's Cisco Pike
    Marco Ferreri's Don't Touch the White Woman!
    Ken Russell's The Demons
    Roger Vadim's Barbarella
    Daryl Duke's Payday
    Jospeh Losey's Boom!
    Yellow Submarine
  • piedpiperpiedpiper 1,279 Posts
    El Topo b/w The Holy Mountain [/b]

    these two get another

    I`d like to add space is the place as weird "psychedelic" blaxploitation highlight.
  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
    Head was a great first pick, and I support all the other films mentioned. Other psychedelic and psychedelic-aftershock films I'd add

    Dusan Makavejev's Sweet Movie and WR: Mysteries of the Organism
    Roger Corman's The Trip
    200 Motels
    Otto Premminger's Skidoo
    Nicolas Roeg's Performance, Don't Look Now, and Man Who Fell to Earth
    Antonioni's Blow-Up and Zabriskie Point
    Zulawski's Possession
    Djibril Diop Mambety's Touki Bouki (African psych from 1973!)
    Bill Norton's Cisco Pike
    Marco Ferreri's Don't Touch the White Woman!
    Ken Russell's The Demons
    Roger Vadim's Barbarella
    Daryl Duke's Payday
    Jospeh Losey's Boom!
    Yellow Submarine

    add to this list:

    Lindsay Anderson's "IF...." and "O Lucky Man!"

    two films that push the mental/surreal boundaries.
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  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts

    That thing'll give you a seizure!
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts





    Absolutely.

    Prime Cut's a wild Lee Marvin title from the same period, although not "psych" strictly speaking.

    BTW, how could we forget Robert Downey, Sr?

    Greaser's Palace, Pound, and Putney Swope are all psychedelic must-sees!
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    Oh, and special mention to William Castle's 1959 B-horror flick The Tingler, in which Vincent Price trips on LSD -- the first (I believe) LSD reference in a Hollywood film.

  • SolidState16SolidState16 181 Posts


    Prime Cut's a wild Lee Marvin title from the same period, although not "psych" strictly speaking.



    More explicitly psyched-up, and from the same writer:

    99 and 44/100% Dead
  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,135 Posts
    Oh, and special mention to William Castle's 1959 B-horror flick The Tingler, in which Vincent Price trips on LSD

    That reminds me since I picked up VHS copies of it and the sequel this weekend: The Abominable Dr. Phibes. Pretty out there Vincent Price, as well.
  • coffinjoecoffinjoe 1,743 Posts







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    the tingler rules !
  • DJBombjackDJBombjack Miami 1,665 Posts
    'Zabriskie Point' could be considered psychedelic i suppose
  • mrmatthewmrmatthew 1,575 Posts
    Some good lists canbe found here

    http://www.pimpadelicwonderland.com/


    I dont think dude updates or sells stuff anymore...but he has good lists and descriptions of obscure "psyche" movies.
  • onetetonetet 1,754 Posts
    Some good lists canbe found here

    http://www.pimpadelicwonderland.com/


    I dont think dude updates or sells stuff anymore...but he has good lists and descriptions of obscure "psyche" movies.

    Yeah, last time I tried to buy from him I never got a response and gave up trying. But I learned a lot from his site and got some good shit from him in the past.
  • coffinjoecoffinjoe 1,743 Posts
    brazilian psych






  • SnagglepusSnagglepus 1,756 Posts
    "Head" starring the Monkees.

    Quick story about this one ... Peter Tork (of the Monkees) lives up in northeastern CT. He popped into a video store that a friend of mine manages. He had a girl with him and comes up to the register with Head in his hands.

    So obviously he had an evening of 'impressing the girl' planned. My friend, being the 30 year old jaded movie dork that he is, wasn't about to make this easy on Peter.

    So he asks, "What ... you're telling me you haven't seen this? Don't worry. Every time Stallone comes in here he rents Lock Up."
  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts
    brazilian psych



    pretty much all of Coffin Joe's ouvre is pretty well psychedelic.
  • Birdman9Birdman9 5,417 Posts


    Prime Cut's a wild Lee Marvin title from the same period, although not "psych" strictly speaking.



    More explicitly psyched-up, and from the same writer:

    99 and 44/100% Dead

    'Prime Cut' is disturbing in such a physical way, it's almost hard to explain.

    '99 and 44% Dead' is great...when will this and 'O Lucky Man!' see DVD releases? It's not as if they were obscure in their day, or made by one-shot directors! I demand justice!
  • lord234lord234 236 Posts
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    i heard crumb hated this, is that correct?

    thanks for all the recommendations, i will check these, and if anyone knows about some more obscure psych movies, let me know.....
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    i heard crumb hated this, is that correct?

    Yes.
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