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Acid westerns and other psychedelic films for the real heads

Allan Rose Hill
Oct 21, 2024
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image: MGM/2001/publicity photo
image: MGM/2001/publicity photo

"A real trip," read one of the promotional taglines for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. Of course, 2001 was just one of a long lineage in psychedelic films that intentionally or unintentionally were a joy to watch under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs. The genre also includes acid westerns, …

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