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Psychedelic.Priest.2001.DVDRip.XviD-FiCO

RELEASE TYPE..> XviD               SUPPLiER.......> FiCO CREW
RELEASE DATE..> 2010.03.19         CRACKER/RiPPER.> FiCO CREW
STREET DATE...> yyyy.mm.dd         ENCODER........> FiCO CREW
THEATRE DATE..> yyyy.mm.dd         RATiNG [iMDb]..> 3.8 (35)
ViDEO CODEC...> XviD Koepi         AUDiO CODEC....> LAME 3.9
ViDEO BiTRATE.> Avg 1128 kbit/s    AUDiO BiTRATE..> 74 kbit/s
ViDEO FORMAT..> NTSC               AUDiO FORMAT...> MPEG1-Layer3
RiP METHOD....> 2-pass ABR         MOViE SiZE.....> 700mb
ASPECT RATiO..> 1.333 : 1          DiSKS..........> 50x15mb
RESOLUTiON....> 576x432            RUNTiME........> 81 min
GENRE.........> Drama
SUBTITLES.....> None

Notes:

Filmed 1971 - Released 2001...

Directed by Terry Merrill

John Darrell   .... Father John
James Coleman
Joe Crane
Carolyn Hall
Susan Hayes
Chubby Jackson

Originally titled Electric Shades of Grey (the on-screen title of
SWV's pristine print), The Psychedelic Priest is a real rarity from
the tail end of the hippie movement. According to cinematographer
(and unbilled co-director) WILLIAM GREFE, the producer raised the
film's budget by promoting trading stamps (!), and the shooting
schedule demanded a certain amount of improvisation, because the
amount of script that had actually been prepared could have fit
nicely on the back of an LSD tab. Yet despite these dubious
beginnings, The Psychedelic Priest emerges as an interesting and, at
times, disturbing little film which manages to use its exploitation
base to air some not so flattering views on religion and faith.

John (JOHN DARRELL) is a young priest with a Beatle haircut who tries
to teach college students about the ways of the Lord. When he catches
a group of kids smoking pot, he almost bores them straight with a
lecture on getting their diplomas. They retaliate by offering him a
Coke laced with acid. Within moments, Father John is off on a wild
trip, stumbling around the college to the accompaniment of rock music
and the usual freaky camera effects. He makes it to his chapel,
hoping it will provide him with sanctuary, but is confronted only
with flashing lights, grandiose organ music, and the voice of his dad
which indicates that a clerical life was not entirely of John's
choosing. His dramatic trip ends with him ripping off his sacred
white collar and throwing it to the ground in disgust.

John then abandons the church and takes off on a journey to find
himself. En route to L.A., he picks up a pretty young blonde named
Sunny (CAROLYN HALL) and the pair instantly bond and smoke pot like
there's no tomorrow. But John's religious upbringing has made him
ignorant to the real ways of the world and, after encountering racist
cops and being abandoned by Sunny after she confesses her love for
him, his life soon spirals out of control. Destitute, he wanders the
streets in an alcoholic haze, gets harassed by hippie haters, and
even begs other hippies for change...or drugs. He finally reaches
rock bottom when he scores a dose of smack from a black dealer in a
leopard-skin-hooded car...

Though originally scheduled to be released by Joe Solomon (as The
Psychedelic Priest), plans were scuttled when Solomon and
producer-director (STEWART MERRILL got into an ugly screaming match
and the film ended up languishing on the shelf for the past three
decades. Looking at it now, it's a unique time capsule highlighted by
Grefe's photography which gives the film the stark minimalist look of
a high school drug education short. Add lots of fuzz guitar rock (and
a title tune belted out by nightclub crooner MITCH MITCHELL), and
you've got a choice dose of acid-fueled nostalgia that's almost worth
missing Sunday church for.

From a digitally mastered ultra-rare 16mm print. Say Amen, somebody!

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