Roger Corman Remembered

The Trip
Directed by Roger Corman

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“Corman’s film of peace, love, and a superficially normalized subversion of social and political mores still leaves a warm taste in the mouth.”—Selen Ozturk, PopMatters

With The Trip, Roger Corman delves deep inside the mind of the artist. TV commercial director Paul Groves (Peter Fonda), with both his personal and professional life in crisis due to a crumbling marriage and stagnating career, begins to experiment with LSD to free himself artistically. Paul’s trip provides the viewer with psychedelic and hallucinatory moments worthy of Fellini, as an onslaught of strange, beautiful and terrifying images flood Paul’s subconscious and leads to a revelatory denouement.

Written for the screen by Jack Nicholson and featuring Bruce Dern as John, the self-proclaimed LSD guru who sends Paul on his trip, Susan Strasberg as Paul’s estranged wife, and Dennis Hopper as a drug-culture everyman, The Trip is a phantasmagoric relic of the 60s counterculture. 1967, U.S., DCP, 82 minutes