Apr 4, 2023
Electric Shades of Grey (The Psychedelic Priest, 1971/2001)
"You know, all my life I've had people running my life for me, and I'm sick and tired of it. First it was my mother. Then I wasted eleven years of my life. Just who do you think you are anyway?"
#electric shades of grey#the psychedelic priest#william grefé#blood tw#exploitation film#1971#2001#terry merrill#john darrell#carolyn hall#joe crane#ken keckler#larry wright#susan hayes#chubby jackson#abe newman#james coleman#lowell merril#made in '71 and then promptly shelved for 30 years either bc of a bts disagreement between producers or bc nobody had any faith it could#make money (probably both). a rare case of 'maybe it should have stayed lost...?' i mean I'm all for saving even the strangest curio but#this is indie filmmaking at its most budget and brain challenged. a priest gets spiked with acid and promptly loses his faith; what follows#is part road movie‚ part hippy drugsploitation‚ and part xtian proselytising. it does none of them well. from the sounds of it Grefé was#working without a script and with non professional actors‚ but other people have done that and still found Something of value... idk I'm#being mean. truthfully‚ there's a couple of good images in the trip sequences‚ and it isn't all hugely offensive (just some of it)#it's also inadvertently hilarious at times. probably a good time while stoned i imagine. stone cold sober‚ it isn't
