Studios, from the majors down to the tiniest independents, appreciated the balance sheet but frankly didn’t understand what ‘the kids’ saw in such a plot-free, self-indulgent, longhaired and untidy movie. In 1969, Easy Rider reaped huge box-office profits with its combination of biker cool, trippy strangeness, counterculture politics, naked chicks and a freak-out soundtrack album tie-in. In his 18th column, Kim uncovers Hex, a 1973 film in the “Weird Hippie Shit” genre starring everyone’s favourite Carradine – Keith, and the one, the only Gary Busey.Ī particular guilty pleasure genre of mine is Weird Hippie Shit cinema. RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems.
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