Riot on Sunset Strip


Riot on Sunset Strip is a 1967 lowbudget countercultureera exploitation movie, released by American International Pictures, and both filmed and released within six weeks of the actual late1966 Sunset Strip curfew riots.

Riot on Sunset Strip invokes a familiar period theme An innocent high school girl named Andy short for Andrea immerses herself in the California hippie subculture, thinking it to be a safe harbor from her troubled home life Her parents are divorced, and her mother is a slovenly alcoholic. In the films denouement, Andy is covertly dosed with LSD and gangraped, leaving her in a traumatized state from which she must be rescued by her policeman father, with whom she is ultimately reunited.The film resembles a captivity narrative, and demonstrates a crucial feature of such narratives in which the captive at least temporarily takes on the alien customs, values, and behavior of her captors Andy depicted as shy and innocent undergoes an instant identity transformation when her diet soda is spiked with LSD. She suddenly begins performing a wild erotic dance lasting some minutes, temporarily turning her into a loosewomanwhosaskingtoberaped, which is what her captors want her to become. However, its not her fault shes merely the victim of an insidious pharmaceutical technology which according to the mythology of the period produces instant licentiousness. ........

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