Description

TITLE: Psych-Out / The Trip

FORMAT: DVD

CODING: Region 1 – NTSC

CONDITION: Used ➽ Very Fine

YEAR: Psych-Out – 1968

The Trip – 1967

STORYLINE: Psych-Out – Jenny, a deaf runaway, has just arrived in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin’ Jim, whose members include Stoney, Ben, and Elwood. They hide her from the fuzz in their crash pad, a Victorian house crowded with love beads and necking couples. Mumblin’ Jim’s truth-seeking friend Dave considers the band’s pursuit of success “playing games,” but he agrees to help Jenny anyway.

STORYLINE: The Trip – Paul Groves (Peter Fonda), a young director of TV commercials, is in the midst of an existential crisis. His wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) has left him for another man, and he seeks help from his friend John (Bruce Dern), an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to guide him through his first “trip,” and John takes Paul to a “freakout” at the mansion of another acquaintance, the self-styled guru Max (Dennis Hopper). Splitting the scene, they score some acid from Max and return to John’s split-level pad with an indoor/outdoor pool. Paul experiences visions of sex, death, strobe lights, flowers, dancing girls, witches, hooded riders, a torture chamber, and a dwarf. Most prominent among his hallucinations, however, are two women. He can’t let go of his memories–good and bad–of Sally, but he has only just met Glenn (Salli Sachse), an acquaintance of Max’s with whom he nonetheless feels an immediate connection, as she admires those who dare to try LSD and has expressed a desire to see him again soon. Paul panics as his visions intensify, but John tells him to “go with it, man.” Would you trust John?

STARS: Psych-Out – Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern

STARS: The Trip – Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper

UPC: 027616885555

NOTES/INFO: 1968 – 89 Min – Color – 16:9 widescreen / 1967 – 79 Min. – Color – 16:9 Widescreen