Hippie exploitation films are late 1960s-early-to-late 1970s exploitation films about the hippie counterculture 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,Notebook Soundtrack Mix #12: Trippin' on Eggshells — The Hippie Exploitation Mix on MUBI 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.50 Far-Out Films About Hippie Subculture - Flavorwire
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." Other examples include The Love-ins, Psych-Out, The Trip, and Wild in the Streets.Top 10 Hippie Horror Films|HNN
Notable examples The Wild Angels (1966)Hey, Man, Dig the Crazy Hippie Flicks ‘The Wild Angels’ and ‘Psych-Out’ - The New York Times Hallucination Generation (1967) Riot on Sunset Strip (1967) The Love-Ins (1967) The Trip (1967) I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968) Psych-Out (1968) Revolution (1968) Wild in the Streets (1968) The Big Cube (1969) Eggshells (1969) I Drink Your Blood (1970)10 Strange Things You'd Better Not Eat or Drink! - Bloody DisgustingHow Exploitation Movies Exploited Charles Manson and Hippie Hysteria - Film School Rejects Joe (1970) Woodstock (1970) The Night God Screamed (1971)THE NIGHT GOD SCREAMED (Lee Madden, 1971) on Vimeo Thumb Tripping (1972) Helter Skelter (1976) Hair (1979)
Filmmakers associated with hippie exploitation John G. Avildsen Roger Corman'Grease Is the Word' - Google Books (pg.93) Wes Craven Tobe Hooper Richard RushHOW HOLLYWOOD HANDLED THE HIPPIES - Please Kill Me Online
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