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While filming on location at a California beach, TV commercial director Paul Groves is chided by his estranged wife, Sally, for failing to appear to sign their separation papers. Cracking under the pressures of his personal and professional life, Paul asks his friend John, a guru, to guide him through his first LSD trip. After stopping off at a psychedelic nightclub and attending a freak-out at the weirdly appointed pad of a pusher named Max, the two men go to John's place where Paul begins his trip. At first, it is cool and serene, full of brilliant colors and idyllic landscapes. Gradually, however, Sally and the seductive Glenn, a blonde Paul met at Max's, enter Paul's hallucinations, and his journey becomes a phantasmagoria of sexual encounters, medieval rites, and paranoic visions in which he assumes the guilt of mankind. Despite Paul's plea for an antidote, John persuades him to "go with it," and the nightmare progresses to a point where Paul attends his own funeral. Although this episode should be the breakthrough, the trip continues as Paul "sees" John, his head bashed in, slumped lifeless in a chair. Fleeing from the apartment, Paul wanders in a daze about the city until Max sends him to Glenn's beachhouse where he is taken through the final phase of his trip during a sexual experience. When it is finally over, Paul believes he has died, been reborn, and is now standing on the threshold of a new life. Glenn, however, warns him ominously--"It's easy now. Wait until tomorrow."

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The film was banned in the UK, because the censors considered it to be an advertisement for LSD. In 2003, the BBFC revised the decision and granted the film an 18 certificate.

Some of the music was provided by the group, The Electric Flag.

In order to prepare for the film, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern and Jack Nicholson all engaged in a group LSD trip.

Jack Nicholson wrote this screenplay for Corman based on his own experience of taking LSD under controlled laboratory conditions and also on his marriage break-up with first wife, Sandra Knight.

Copyright length: 81 min.

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Released in United States 1967

Re-released in United States May 16, 2003

Re-released in United States October 16, 2015

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Directed by Roger Corman

A Lovely Sort of Death

After his wife leaves him, a disillusioned director dives into the drug scene, trying anything his friend suggests.

Peter Fonda Susan Strasberg Bruce Dern Dennis Hopper Salli Sachse Barboura Morris Judy Lang Luana Anders Beach Dickerson Dick Miller Katherine Walsh Caren Bernsen Michael Nader Bárbara Ransom Michael Blodgett Tom Signorelli Boyd Santell Mitzi Hoag Luree Holmes Earl Finn Roger Arroyo Rodney Bingenheimer Peter Bogdanovich Brandon De Wilde Randee Lynne Jensen Joyce Mandel Angelo Rossitto Carl Franzoni Denise Lynn Show All… Gram Parsons Vito Paulekas Frankie Smith Sid Troy

Director Director

Roger Corman

Producers Producers

Roger Corman Frances Doel Jack Bohrer

Writer Writer

Jack Nicholson

Editor Editor

Ronald Sinclair

Cinematography Cinematography

Archie R. Dalzell

Assistant Director Asst. Director

Additional directing add. directing.

Dennis Hopper

Art Direction Art Direction

Leon Ericksen

Set Decoration Set Decoration

Michel Levesque

Composer Composer

Electric Flag

Sound Sound

James Nelson Philip Mitchell

Makeup Makeup

Ted Coodley

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23 aug 1967, 31 jan 1969, releases by country.

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Review by nathaxnne [hiatus <3] ★★★★½ 9

"What Police? There Are No Police. I Don't Believe In Police."

The Trip as written by Jack Nicholson and directed by Roger Corman might be the most authentic point-by-point recreation of what it is like to take LSD. Peter Fonda is getting divorced which is naturally a bummer, so he goes over to Dennis Hopper's house to drop acid while Bruce Dern watches over him. I want Bruce Dern to be my once and future trip guide as he is totally chill. Dennis Hopper is exactly the semi-skeevy but alright dude in a hippie poncho who deals as a public service toward mass enlightenment. The 'real world' aspect of The Trip is almost ethnographic in attention to accurate detail while…

Review by WraithApe ★★★½ 13

"It's beautiful, man. There's some real stuff happening."

When it started out it seemed like this was gonna be the typical depiction of a trip seen through the eyes of someone who's never actually tripped - all kaleidoscopic lens effects and realistic hallucinations - but given that Jack Nicholson wrote the screenplay and Corman directed the thing, that would be an anomaly to say the least. In fact, it's pretty authentic, just that it mostly operates on a symbolic level. The moments of zen calm and free love are the highs; the Nazgûl and the cops... well, they represent the dark side - how a trip can quickly disappear down the wrong rabbit hole, man.

When Paul (Peter Fonda) decides…

Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★★ 8

Action!-The March of the (3) Rogers: B Is For Corman

This is a film that begs to be viewed while high on acid. I watched this with the frequent urge to pee as a result of all the Coke I had consumed. So, needless to say, I may have watched this in the wrong way.

But, whatever your state of mind, it's undeniable that this is a byproduct of its time, even though it was technically released two years well before counterculture's peak, or, as some would say, met its demise. The cinematography is trippy and on another level. The performance is chaotic with Fonda just loosing it. There are so many unforgettable sequences, but I think the one that…

Review by Darren Carver-Balsiger ★★★★

The Trip is just a film about a guy taking LSD and tripping. That is the entire plot. But it's really compelling oddly enough. Roger Corman was at his most experimental here, layering the film with a psychedelic atmosphere and hallucinogenic visuals. It is incredibly impressive what he achieved on a low budget. The cool, disconnected imagery and rapidly edited montages are very evocative. They're boosted by the colourful sets and great re-use of old material to make the journey feel larger. The Trip is very 60s, capturing the zeitgeist of drugs and hippies, and embracing that trend. It's also very funny and a fair depiction of drug taking which neither glamorises or demonises drug use. It's a groovy film.

Review by Ziglet_mir ★★★★ 4

Humbled and honored to be invited by  Amy  to guest star on her awesome pod  Watch This List ! 

"Insomnia Cinema" is now the second phase to her mainstay show with shorter episode lengths and zero editing.  Watch us discuss Roger Corman's 1967 experience,  The Trip , a wacky little gem of the 60s that highlights my definition of a midnight movie. An otherwise calming discussion for a film that can get off the rails on a dime!

Big thanks to Amy for having me on. 🍻

Review by Ziglet_mir ★★★★ 6

Mini-Collab  with  artistaerratico ! Thanks for picking this one--a Roger Corman flick is a refreshing break from today's special effects!!! Read artista's  review here ! Go follow STAT!

The editing in this film is BANANAS. Sheer BANANAS. The final 15 minutes probably has a few hundred. A film that solely wants to focus on the effects of LSD and how that translates to a visual medium, sounds like a hit or miss venture depending on who you are, but with Roger Corman at the helm there's something really fascinating going on here. The Trip is one of those films that fills in the answer as to why we have movies, in that, the pictures and effects on screen are no way translatable to just mere…

Review by Kevin Majestyck 14

“I can see right into my brain. Oh, you were right man. Everything’s in the head.”

This film “gets” a lot of the experience. Bruce Dern tells Peter Fonda to just relax , but of course Fonda lets his divorce anxiety start messing with his mind, causing his evening to frequently dip into anxiety. You gotta relax or you’re gonna have a bad time, man!

Another honest element in the film: Bruce losing Fonda at one point made me remember something I hadn’t thought of for a while. Like 15 years ago, my buddy — who had never done hallucinogenics, and had a history of manic episodes — asked me if I’d do psilocybin with him. Well, I figured I’d be…

Review by Olivia Celine "Olive" Lancaster (#FreePalestine 🇵🇸) ★★★★★

We need to bring psychedelia back to cinema--back when Corman or Rothman were making exploitation flicks you'd get wonderful kaleidoscopic colors and bizarre Angerian imagery that added both transgression and class to the work. Now, that sort of drug paranoia doesn't sell. Sad.

Do you know what insane shit we could do with modern digital image editing, even with no budget? Even in death, Roger Corman is constantly poking me and telling me to just go out and make something... I'm trying Roger, I'm trying.

Review by Scumbalina ★★★

This resonated less in my second viewing. While it's not completely unrealistic in terms of how thoughts melt under the influence of acid, the Nicholson-Era Cormanism struck me as being more trendy than revelatory. The saving grace is one hundred percent Bruce Dern and his soft-toned guidance. Listening to him walk Peter Fonda through the stimulating curiosities of common household items cloaks my body like a warm blanket. A calming voice of reason, a voice I wish would walk me through life whilst completely sober. Talk to me, Bruce...

Review by Olly Bishop ★★★½

Everything you would expect a 60s movie called the trip to be.

Review by Noah DiVincenzo ★★★★½ 4

Underrated near-masterpiece from Corman. Essential.  Ultimate trip flick.  It doesn’t get much more 60’s than this.  I’ll be coming back to this very soon.

Review by Amy Hensarling ★★★½ 22

WATCH THIS LIST UNPLUGGED PRESENTS Insomnia Cinema Episode 2: The Trip

New vid is here ! Tune in to discover  Zig ’s real name and hear us chat about the next crazy plunge into midnight movie madness. The Trip  is wild, man, even more so with the knowledge that Jack Nicholson penned the script and made this with his friends. 

We had a blast & hope you will too.

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Bummed out by his wife, a California TV director embarks on a surreal and hallucinatory journey into his subconscious after taking LSD for the first time, exploring the depths of his psyche and the nature of reality.

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• TV Guide TV Guide Staff These images more closely resemble a bad dream following an overdose of pepperoni-and-onion pizza than the result of ingesting hallucinogenic drugs.
• Q Network Film Desk James Kendrick when strung out over more than an hour, watching someone else's chemically induced psychotropic experience starts to feel redundant, tiresome, monotonous even
• Creative Loafing Matt Brunson Thematically, the film is as shallow as a puddle, but visually, it's a stimulating experience.
• Video-Reviewmaster.com Steve Crum A psychedelic splash by Roger Corman noted only for its leads Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper.
• EmanuelLevy.Com Emanuel Levy Curio item: a cultural artifact that reflects the zeitgeist but shallow and disappointing as LSD feature
• TIME Magazine TIME Staff The Trip is a psychedelic tour through the bent mind of Peter Fonda, which is evidently full of old movies.
• Variety Variety Staff Unconnected scenes begin to spin off the screen with increasing speed and with no attempt at explanation.
• New York Times Bosley Crowther In trying to visualize a notion of what Peter Fonda goes through on an LSD trip, Roger Corman has simply resorted to a long succession of familiar cinematic images, accompanied by weird music and sounds.
• Chicago Reader Dave Kehr Roger Corman and Peter Fonda, trying to do for LSD what they did for motorcycles in The Wild Angels. It doesn't take.
• Los Angeles Free Press Gene Youngblood This is simply a beautiful movie about a fellow who takes an acid trip - with all its ups and downs.
• Aisle Seat Mike McGranaghan It's not conventionally a good movie; there's little plot to speak of, and 83 minutes of psychedelia becomes a touch repetitive. However, it's still a captivating curio.
• Combustible Celluloid Jeffrey M. Anderson Although this style of filmmaking has been aped millions of times over on MTV and television commercials, it's still a pretty radical idea.
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• Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Dennis Schwartz It sugarcoats the acid experience.

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