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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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everything you have heard about this movie is true.

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

I stumbled upon this film on MGM HD. I turned to the channel and here was some flick with a young Jack Nicholson and Dean Stockwell with some young lady with a postcard that reads "Jess Saes: God is in a sugar cube"...or something like that.I figured it was a Roger Corman schlock job I had never heard of. Instead it turns out to be Dick Clark!The film is a hoot when seen through 2017 eyes of someone who grew up in Michigan during the 60's and 70's. I may not have been in San Fran but I certainly knew some of the characters in the movie. Most of them wanted to spend their lives tripping and going to Grateful Dead shows. As may be expected they are also the people who now have a need for serious dental work later in life...but can't afford to pay for it.The dialog is so accurate it is amazing. There is also decades later irony in such statements as Jack Nicholson uttering about San Fran something like "You don't need any bread around here...almost everything is free." My Goodness...Can you imagine what would happen if you transported such a hippie to modern San Fran where it costs a fortune just pay the monthly rent???? This movie documents that San Francisco has now become everything that the hippies in 1969 abhorred!! The house they live in is like straight out of Frank Zappa's Uncle Meat. "We all lived together and balled together and everyone got the crabs." Well...they don't get the crabs in Psych Out...but they should have! :)Then...later in the film...Bruce Dern appears as The Seeker! OMG...he is magnificent as the character! Another psycho played wonderfully by Mr. Dern!Lastly...look up the movie poster art. The art is incredible period piece material. The art is truly Movie Poster material when movie posters were "7-UP Uncola Hippie R Rated Style" productions. Psych Out is a hoot. I am stunned...as a movie buff...that I had never heard of it. It isn't earth shattering material. While hokey in many parts it still presents a pretty accurate view of what acid heads really were like.

Hilarious exploitation film! As someone who's been a hippie and around hippies all his life, I can tell you that this movie is more dead on than many would like to admit. Anyone who says otherwise really hasn't been around hardcore hippies, or just isn't being honest with themselves! LOL This movie gets a star just for the great line that I used as my title.I love how members of Mumblin' Jim stop playing, but the music track keeps going. I love how Jack Nickleson's creepy performance may not seem so peace and love, but is representative of a lot of the hustlers who have always populated the hippie scene. I love the beginning of the film where people form a parade following some chick carrying a flag representing a chair. I love the funeral scene with the Seeds, the cheesy hipster slang, and the ridiculous "in the scene/out of the scene" game. Of course this movie is a typical AIP mash up, but who cares? Kick back, gobble whatever sugarcubes you have, and have fun.

I stumbled on this film purely by chance at an all- nighter in London some time in the early seventies.It was wedged between half a dozen or so cheapo -flicks on what was ostensibly billed as a Horror session,the remainder of which I am unable to recall, as from the very onset of the opening credits all that preceded was forgotten.My initial response to the film was pitched somewhere between amusement at what I believed to be absurd inaccuracies in the presentation of the subject matter,and a curious sense of admiration for the film,s broadly sympathetic attitude to the Hippie movement.The well drawn characterisation of the film,s main protagonists elevates Psych-Out way above the majority of Exploitation movies,and even the brutal editing of the version released on DVD cannot detract from the cinematographic excellence of Lazlo Kovacs. The passage of time has enabled me to view the film more objectively,and to re-evaluate what I once held to be its most obvious flaws.Firstly,to make a genuinely accurate Picture about Hippies would have been nigh on impossible for most commercial film makers at the time,as the majority of Heads(we never called ourselves Hippies)would have refused to be drawn into such a production.It is no small thing that none of premier league SF groups of the day(The Grateful Dead,Jefferson Airplane,Country Joe and the Fish etc)appear in Psych-Out,and that the audience at the Mumblin' Jim gigs seem for the most part to consist of office workers on a lunch-time break,hurriedly attired for the event in day-glo tunics,with just the odd genuine longhair thrown in.The thirty-something actors,resplendent in their dubious hairpieces, seem uncomfortable as aspiring Rock musicians(with hindsight it is probable that their preferences lay more with modern jazz)this notwithstanding,the film did somehow manage to convey more than a germ of truth about the times.In the characters of Dave and Stoney we encounter the conflict between the psychedelic visionary and the more pragmatic dilettante(shades of Syd Barrett v Roger waters),and in Steve(The Seeker)a prototype Charles Manson,albeit a more benevolent one.Dean Stockwell for me steals the film,an even more complex character than Steve,he is blessed with all the best lines and even manages to bow out with an heroic death as the film arrives at it's 'mindblowing'conclusion.I think Psych-Out is a little gem of a film,and while it contains much that will amuse,there is also much to admire.

Most everything people have already said about this movie is how I think about it, too. However, I would like to say for the Seeds fans out there that might try to see the film so they can see the Seeds footage that it's way too brief. I love the Seeds and I wanted desperately to see some closeups of the guys in action. Maybe see some good dancing by Sky or even get a good group shot. I was pretty disappointed to see Sky rocking out to some bad synchronizing on part of the audio engineers. It makes him look like he has no sense of rhythm! And you only get to see him for half seconds at a time. And Daryl Hooper (organist) isn't even shown when the band plays! It spends more time showing Jan Savage's fingers playing guitar than it spends on the any other Seeds shot. Quite a disappointment, especially since there is hardly any footage of this amazing band anywhere. Aside from that, the Strawberry Alarm Clock get great coverage, which is nice. The plot of the movie is really entertaining as well. But I wonder, why didn't Jenny talk like a deaf person? I guess it's because you're led to believe she really isn't deaf. Either way, it's a good movie with some good tripping scenes and cool clothes and lines: "Why are you dancing alone?" "I'm not, I'm dancing with everybody!" yikes! that's heavy! haha