The Tripper (2006)

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Good concept, poorly executed.

Better Late Then Never

David Arquette has created a carnival of drug hazed carnage in this fun little B horror whose political machinations are as subtle as a race riot. This flick unfairly gets a low rating cuz people just take their political intrigues too seriously, and while the republican right is portrayed in a rather severe light, the liberal hippies are depicted as retarded imbeciles almost deserving their punishment. The acting, especially for a B movie, was decidedly competent. Arquette's direction show that his career should rightfully be found in the director's chair. The story itself was funny, inventive, and wonderfully convoluted without being overdone; and that dialog... The camera was wonderfully dedicated to expressing the fog of a drug bender in the throes of a blood fest. Good clean fun this was, naked granola soaked in blood. Genruk'Evil Eye Reviews

In "The Tripper," a slasher movie with a political conscience, a serial killer wearing a Ronald Reagan mask stalks a group of anachronistic hippies (so anachronistic they have cell phones along with their tie dye t-shirts and psychedelic van) who have come to the forests of Northern California to celebrate free love and partake in unlimited drug use at a Woodstock-type outdoor event.The Red State/Blue State divide is never far from the filmmakers' minds as a bunch of gun-toting rednecks go up against a group of Flower Power love children who suddenly descend on the area. The saving grace, if indeed there is one, of this gory, but not particularly disturbing, splatter-fest is the tongue-in-cheek humor it manages to display from time to time. Otherwise, this odd little mixture of horror movie clichés and outdated political satire (does anybody really care about the Reagan administration any more?) falls strangely flat.

OK so I've read a lot of these comments about how they think it's dumb that the characters are so revolved around they're drug use the whole movie or people just asking why that is.I have been to festivals and understand how and why the characters are acting like that. hippies go to festivals to mainly do a lot of drugs and watch amazing bands. At festivals most people talk about drugs a quite a bit of the time. They're excited and very pleased that they're going to be able to be free with they're drug use and not really worry about the law and people who define they're drug use as criminal or just wrong. So honestly that's what most of the conversation at festivals are about. I'm not saying that it's not messed up that even though they see murdered people that they're still partying. My friends and I that watched this movie together agreed that we would be trying to do something about it like Sam.I loved this movie. I thought it was hilarious and as far as behavior of the characters and the setting was pretty realistic. The blood was super super super fake, as well as all the gore. They probably should have explained things better, and had a little more sorta storyline on the killer. But overall I really enjoyed it. the whole concept was great!

OK, it was campy, fun and a little racy too. But I thought it was totally entertaining! Great concept with the Reagan thing and all the irony of the times with Bush and all, but the movie just had a fun feel to it. My wife thinks I am nuts, but I love these kind of movies and David should make a sequel to it! Two thumbs up here! The more blood and bad jokes the better! The ultimate was Pulp Fiction. Lots of blood, no one cared type of atmosphere. The irony of Samuel Jackson quoting passages from the bible, then wasting someone away. Or John Travolta taking out the Boss' woman and really getting her almost killed by drug use. Some of this is pretty sick when you think of it, but reality does stink sometimes, doesn't it? And bringing in people like Paul"peewee" Reubens to be in it, he was great! The beginning is classic too, with the tree huggers and all. I have to give it two thumbs up! JT