Psych-Out/ The Trip
Midnite Movies
Psych Out
Side A
Tune in. Turn on. Psych Out! Take the ultimate in psychedelic trips with Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern! When a deaf runaway (Strasberg) visits swinging San Francisco in search of her brother, she teams with the aptly named Stoney (Nicholson) and his out-of-sight hippie band Mumblin' Jim. But the more she succumbs to that music-and danger-filled Flower Power scene-the more she realizes that reality is a rotten place to be!
The Trip
Side B
Hedonism isn't just for breakfast anymore. Or so learns TV commercial director Paul (Peter Fonda) on his first LSD trip-a mind-blowing passage through surreal images and stroboscopic light shows. Written by Jack Nicholson and directed by Roger Corman, The Trip takes you to a whole new world of extreme beauty and sheer terror-on a passport the size of a stamp!
Member Reviews
The Trip - abadguitarist
Got to hand it to Corman, he knows how to exploit culture trends. How to turn a drug culture into $$$. So is a film like The Trip anything more than a cash crop? Probably not, but when you can get past associations of The Moody Blues’ “Nights in White Satin” with Peter Fonda running by the beach in a puffy shirt, some of the so called trip seems inspired by scenes from Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
Dennis Hopper can do no wrong in my books and always makes me nostalgic for a time I never knew. I can’t say the same for Bruce Dern’s pseudo-Timothy Leary, though; with him as my guide, I’d have a bad trip too.
I wonder how many acid freaks saw this and wondered what was up with the kaleidoscopic visions and how many seekers were disappointed with the effects of acid and just bought a kaleidoscope the next time?Flower Power for Beginners - busychick
Wow man! If you want a couple of movies to show people what the hippie movement was all about,
this is a movie to start with. It was made right in the thick of things in 1967.
Psychout has some weird lighting and sound effects, appropo for the fact it's all about tripping, and the after effects of said trips.
Jack Nicholson is a trip in just about any movie he's in, so if you're a fan, go for it.Trippy Time Capsule - eoguy
Entirely dated, but completely entertaining, these are two cult B-movies that were created by Jack Nicholson and his friends.
Psych-out is the lesser of the two in terms of plot and overall quality, but it houses a more interesting look at "hippy" culture in the late 1960s. It involves a deaf girl's journey into drug culture as she searches for her missing brother.
The Trip is infamous for its wild visuals and campy acting (primarily from Peter Fonda). Here he plays a TV commercial director whose divorce is getting him down. So he plans an escape through an LSD trip, monitored by his friend and "guide" (Bruce Dern). But things get out of hand and Fonda winds up out on the streets of Hollywood experiencing the wild visuals of his first journey on LSD. The film was directed by Roger Corman.
The double-sided disc includes plenty of special features, including a retrospective from most of the actors (minus Nicholson), who describe the research -- or lack thereof -- that they engaged in while writing the script. It also includes a commentary on The Trip by Corman. He covers some of the changes demanded by the distributor to make the film have an anti-LSD stance.
Not particularly amazing cinema, but very interesting movies. Together they make for a good dose of pop culture for the curious.
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The Trip - abadguitarist
Got to hand it to Corman, he knows how to exploit culture trends. How to turn a drug culture into $$$. So is a film like The Trip anything more than a cash crop? Probably not, but when you can get past associations of The Moody Blues’ “Nights in White Satin” ...Flower Power for Beginners - busychick
Wow man! If you want a couple of movies to show people what the hippie movement was all about,
this is a movie to start with. It was made right in the thick of things in 1967.
Psychout has some weird lighting and sound effects, appropo for the fact ...Trippy Time Capsule - eoguy
Entirely dated, but completely entertaining, these are two cult B-movies that were created by Jack Nicholson and his friends.
Psych-out is the lesser of the two in terms of plot and overall quality, but it houses a more interesting look at "hippy" culture ...