Hallucination Generation (1966)

Director:

Edward Mann

Writer:

Edward Mann (writer)

Release Date:

1 December 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

You will experience every jolt...every jar of a Psychedelic Circus...The Beatniks...Sickniks...and Acid-Heads...and you will witness their ecstasies, their agonies and their bizarre sensualities...You will be hurled into their debauched dreams and frenzied fantasies !

Plot Keywords:

1960s | Psychedelic | Robbery | Hallucination | Drugs

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Danny Stone	...	Bill
George Montgomery	...	Eric
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tom Baker	...	Denny
Rodrigo Caballero
T.J. Castronova		(as Tom Castronova)
Dany
Claude Gersene
Víctor Israel
Marianne Kanter	...	Carol
Renate Kasché	...	Lise
Almer Kessler
Maria
Carl Rapp
Kay Reid
Steve Rowland
Natalia Silva
Danny Steinmann	...	Bill (as Danny Stone)

Also Known As:

Hallucination

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Spain

Company:

SRS

Tame exploitation flick

Billy Williams (Danny Stone, looking like a young and broody Bob Dylan) is an American drifter in Ibiza, one of the Spanish Balaeric Islands. His mother stops sending him money and he's forced to take up a life of crime and drug abuse. He's manipulated by Eric (George Montgomery), a sleazy importer and amateur chemist who likes to spike peoples drinks with his homemade drug cocktails. The film hints at all sorts of debauchery but can't bring itself to actually show any drug usage other than the occasional furtive pot puff. Shot in an horrifically ugly brown tint, the best parts of the film are the Brakhage-style psychedelic trip sequences. Not the worst of its kind, the film benefits from location photography, but overall looks like it was made five to ten years earlier.