The Hitchhikers

1/12/2023

Most of the time I give a film 10 stars if it entertains and 1 if it stinks in kind of a thumbs up or thumbs down vote... because picking the numbers in between seem a little too artificial for someone like me has no problem pointing out trash, liking trash, or criticizing a flawed movie that I ultimately still enjoyed. However, with movies like this, unless they are absolutely horrible, I feel the need to give them 10 stars on principal because you always get exactly what they advertise that you're going to get. In this case you get boobs, nudity, and hippies. The film bills itself about being about boobs and hippies. The plot makes it clear that you aren't going to get anything deeper than boobs and hippies. If you sat down to watch this movie and expected anything other than bo

11/20/2024

**_Lindsey Buckingham & five hippie girls living in a ghost town in SoCal_** Two summers after the Manson Family murders, a nonconformist dude enjoys his own li’l harem in the Southwest desert, but they have to make money somehow and so prey upon men stopping for the alluring girls as they pretend to be hitchhikers. "The Hitchhikers" (1972) belongs to the counterculture genre that ran from the late 60s to early 70s. While the outlaw biker flicks from that same period were a separate genre, there was some crossover. For instance, there’s a biker dude here that visits the hippies in the ghost town. Or take “Angels Hard as They Come” from the year prior, which likewise features nonconformists living in a SoCal ghost town. Thankfully, this is superior. It only cost $223,200, which wou