Hippie exploitation films

Hippie exploitation films are late 1960s-early-to-late 1970s

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

• 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][8]
• Revolution (1968)^[2]
• Wild in the Streets (1968)^[2]
• The Big Cube (1969)^[2]
• Eggshells (1969)^[2]
• I Drink Your Blood (1970)^[9][10]
• Joe (1970)^[5]
• Woodstock (1970)^[2]
• The Night God Screamed (1971)^[10][11]
• 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^[12]
• Wes Craven^[5]
• Tobe Hooper^[2]
• Richard Rush^[8]

See also

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

References

External links

• YouTube- Hippie Exploitation Movie Trailers from the 1960s