The Trip (1967)

Thanks for the memories!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The acting in this movie is really good.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This movie has possibly the-best-trapped-in-a-closet-scene, EVER!!I'm serious, I actually can't even think time a film has even come this close to accurately recreating the experience of being trapped in a closet.Also that bit where he is running amok on the street with all the saxophone playing, sheer madness. Just like in real life.And that bit on the couch with the kid on the couch, I WAS THERE! Running from his confused father, it happened!***SPOILER ALEART***At one point he gets trapped in a closet and it is A-MAZ-ING !!

This is a rather odd movie, which is understandable to anyone who has taken hallucinogens. There is no way to explain an LSD, Magic Mushroom, or Peyote trip to anyone who has not had one. Words do not suffice. Pictures do not suffice. How do you explain seeing sound, or smelling colors? You can't.This movie gives it a try and does the best it can, but to all those that see it and have never been tripping, I'm sure it looks like a painting done by a monkey. You just can't put these thoughts on film. Example: One time, in the mid-70's, I took acid with a group of friends. All of a sudden a purple tornado came out of the ceiling and ravaged the room, sucking the emotional content out of everyone there. Now just how do you display that on film? Nicholson, Corman, Fonda, Hopper, and company give it a shot, but it really can't be done. Not then, not now, with all the digital effects available. Valiant effort though, but probably only entertaining to people who know what frying means.

The Trip (1935) *** out of **** Directed by Roger CormanWith Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper Fonda found lost when he and his wife get divorced, then, to scape from reality, he take a pill of LSD. What we're going to see is his entire trip. Psychodelic surrealism at it's best. Jump on that inconsistent Warning at the begin of the film, this is not a propaganda is pure homage to the drug itself. Written by a young Jack Nicholson. Music by the American Flag (Named here as "An American Music Band"). In psychedelic color!

The summary is a line taken from this film and it pretty much sums up the film to me. This is a bizarre low-budget film from Roger Corman--bizarre because it seems designed as a film to encourage the audience to try LSD. To get it right, Corman and several of his stars (Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda) took acid to see what it would be like and to help with realism. Ironically, Bruce Dern's character was a mystical guru (like Timothy Leary) who advocated the drug the strongest, yet he was the only star in the film who didn't use the drug.Peter Fonda, along with Dern's assistance, takes LSD for the first time. We are treated to a very, very long series of images--as if we are seeing through Fonda's eyes. Some are "good trips"--full of sex and placid images. Some are "bad trips"--full of horrors. Unfortunately, it all goes a bit wrong when Fonda accidentally wanders off and Dern has to find him.Looking back at this film now, people who think drugs are stupid can't help but be bored as well as horrified by the film. Boring because the acid trip just seems silly and the whole film seems like a waste of time. It's a rather boring film despite the drugs, occasional nudity and loudness of the imagery. It's a bad film, but not in a funny way. You are also horrified because you can't believe that the film makers were so irresponsible to encourage drug use. I guess you just had to be there to understand the context for this film.