Psych Out

PsychOut 1968 is a countercultureera psychedelic film about hippies, psychedelic music, and recreational drugs, produced and released by American International Pictures. Originally scripted as The Love Children, the title when tested caused people to think it was about bastards, so Samuel Z. Arkoff came up with the ultimate title based on a recent successful reissue of Psycho.

Jenny played by Susan Strasberg is a deaf runaway who arrives in San Franciscos HaightAshbury district, searching for her brother Steve. She encounters the aptly named Stoney Jack Nicholson and his hippie band Mumblin Jim in a coffee shop. The boys are sympathetic, especially when they discover that she is deaf and can only understand others through lip reading. They hide her from the police and help her look for her brother. He has left his apartment with no forwarding address she has only a postcard from him which reads Jess Saes God is alive and well and living in a sugar cube. Meanwhile, the boys are trying hard to improve their music and get more visibility, and are approached by a promoter who says he can arrange for them to perform at the Ballroom, clearly the Avalon Ballroom or the Fillmore West.The group discovers an artist friend, Warren Henry Jaglom, the man who designs the psychedelic posters advertising the band, freaking out badly in his gallery, apparently on STP. He sees everyone, including himself, as walking dead and tries to cut off his own to him festering hand with a circular saw. While they help him, Jenny notices a large sculpture resembling abstract flames in a corner and recognizes it as her brothers work. The gallery owner says the artist is known as The Seeker, a kind of itinerant preacher. He suggests that they ask exband member Dave Dean Stockwell about The Seekers current whereabouts. ........

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