# Help me ID this hippie horror movie! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626 "2011-08-22T06:03:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/1 "2011-08-22T06:03:32Z")
Many years ago, while watching one of the Elvira: Mistress of the Dark type shows late one night, I saw a movie that, as far as I can recall, took place in some Mediterranean locale (possibly an island) and featured some sort of Satanic or Pagan cult. The soundtrack featured Age of Aquarius-era music. That’s all I can recall. Ring any bells for anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/2 "2011-08-22T08:58:41Z")
I’ve been trying to restrain myself. I don’t have to “Reply” to every thread. But every one that catches my eye begs a response… I have to say this------ WE WEREN’T HIPPIES! WE WERE “FREAKS!” We called ourselves Freaks because we knew we were out of the norm. The media pounced upon the image of a flower (placed in the muzzle of a gun aimed by a a National Guardsman, I know) and “sliced & diced it” to fit their own needs. Flower Power? No, dude. We were into ‘shrooms. If you watched a movie that involved “hippies” trippin’ out over vampires, werewolves or whatever…you were swallowing Hollywood marketing propaganda: we were too busy writing, editing & printing the news from our side. The truth was scarier than fiction. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/3 "2011-08-22T12:53:33Z")
Might it have been [Islands of Death (AKA Devils in Mykonos)](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188527/)? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/4 "2011-08-22T12:57:35Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > I’ve been trying to restrain myself. I don’t have to “Reply” to every thread. But every one that catches my eye begs a response… > I have to say this------ > WE WEREN’T HIPPIES! WE WERE “FREAKS!” > We called ourselves Freaks because we knew we were out of the norm. > The media pounced upon the image of a flower (placed in the muzzle of a gun aimed by a a National Guardsman, I know) and “sliced & diced it” to fit their own needs. > Flower Power? No, dude. > We were into ‘shrooms. > If you watched a movie that involved “hippies” trippin’ out over vampires, werewolves or whatever…you were swallowing Hollywood marketing propaganda: > we were too busy writing, editing & printing the news from our side. The truth was scarier than fiction. OK you’re a freak. We get it you’re a freak. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/5 "2011-08-22T13:12:24Z")
I was so hoping this was going to be about [Phantom of the Paradise](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n5qVJEg3qA). Hippie freaks . . . ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/6 "2011-08-22T13:27:43Z")
First one that popped into my head was [Love Camp](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083215), AKA Divine Emanuelle, AKA tons of other titles. Filmed in and around Greek ruins, Laura Gemser plays the leader of a free-love cult that uses violence and is pretty obviously based on Jonestown. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/7 "2011-08-22T14:01:02Z")
[The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredibly_Strange_Creatures_Who_Stopped_Living_and_Became_Mixed-Up_Zombies)? Joe ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/8 "2011-08-22T14:16:45Z")
Honestly, except for the location of the island, it sounds like Wicker Man. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/9 "2011-08-22T15:49:17Z")
I’m thinking maybe “Dagon?” It’s an adaptation (fairly loose) of Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth,” filmed in Spain. Features a really pretty girl with tentacles. I don’t recall the soundtrack, though, so that’s a problem. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/10 "2011-08-22T15:54:59Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > I was so hoping this was going to be about [Phantom of the Paradise](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n5qVJEg3qA). Hippie freaks . . . Possibly; I’m going to have to track that one down and watch it to be sure… ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/11 "2011-08-22T15:58:29Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > First one that popped into my head was [Love Camp](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083215), AKA Divine Emanuelle, AKA tons of other titles. Filmed in and around Greek ruins, Laura Gemser plays the leader of a free-love cult that uses violence and is pretty obviously based on Jonestown. That sounds like a possibility, too…another to check out. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/12 "2011-08-22T16:00:31Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > Honestly, except for the location of the island, it sounds like Wicker Man. Definitely not Wicker Man, which I own on DVD and really like (the original, of course!); I distinctly remember seeing white stone pillars of some sort framed against a coastal background. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/13 "2011-08-22T16:01:49Z")
> [@Becky2844](#): > > I’ve been trying to restrain myself. I don’t have to “Reply” to every thread. But every one that catches my eye begs a response… > I have to say this------ > WE WEREN’T HIPPIES! WE WERE “FREAKS!” > We called ourselves Freaks because we knew we were out of the norm. > The media pounced upon the image of a flower (placed in the muzzle of a gun aimed by a a National Guardsman, I know) and “sliced & diced it” to fit their own needs. > Flower Power? No, dude. > We were into ‘shrooms. > If you watched a movie that involved “hippies” trippin’ out over vampires, werewolves or whatever…you were swallowing Hollywood marketing propaganda: > we were too busy writing, editing & printing the news from our side. The truth was scarier than fiction. Yeah, yeah, and they’re “Trekkers” and not “Trekkies.” Stay away from the brown acid!😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/14 "2011-08-23T07:20:51Z")
_I Drink Your Blood_ wasn’t in a Mediterranean locale, but otherwise fits what description there was. (It’s not like there have been a lot of hippie horror movies\*.) _Venus in Furs_ has the seaside locale, but is a suspenser, and more for the Rat Pack set than hippies\*. _The Acid Eaters_ was an attempt to make an underground movie for the Perry Como generation, starring Brylcremed and bouffanted faux-hippies\*, and has some beach scenes. And the book _Groovy Movies_ mentions one called _The Hooked Generation_ that might be a possibility. If you find out, do let us know. As a former Haight-Ashbury hippie\* myself, I want to see it! * * * \*If they were called _hippies_, which they weren’t, of course, they were called _freaks_, 'cause we were, like, not into _labels_, mannnnn… ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/15 "2011-08-25T00:16:18Z")
Was it about an eloquent, long-haired and bearded vampire who came on like a guru and seduced a group of hippies into his cult? With a _real_ downer ending? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/16 "2011-08-26T09:49:54Z")
I’m bumping this because I’m curious as to the answer myself. It almost could describe some random scenes of the 1970 version of THE DUNWICH HORROR. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2011, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/17 "2011-08-26T09:50:57Z")
> [@DLuxN8R-13](#): > > Was it about an eloquent, long-haired and bearded vampire who came on like a guru and seduced a group of hippies into his cult? With a _real_ downer ending? Was that THE DEATHSTALKER? ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/18 "2011-08-27T05:42:35Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Was that THE DEATHSTALKER? _Deathmaster_ – starring Robert Quarry as the charismatic blood-drinker, Khorda. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2011, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-this-hippie-horror-movie/593626/19 "2011-08-27T11:54:13Z")
> [@DLuxN8R-13](#): > > _Deathmaster_ – starring Robert Quarry as the charismatic blood-drinker, Khorda. Thank you, I vaguely remember seeing it. And in my vagueness thought he was playing Count Yorga in it.