Apr 1, 2023
The Hooked Generation (1968)
"Man, you cats are hot! You're hot, baby!"
"What are you talking about, we're hot?"
"You knocked off the Coast Guard men, right? Right? Right? Am I putting you on so far?"
#the hooked generation#william grefé#1968#exploitation film#american cinema#quinn morrison#ray preston#jeremy slate#steve alaimo#john davis chandler#willie pastrano#cece stone#walter r. philbin#socrates ballis#milton 'butterball' smith#lee warren#gay perkins#marilyn nordman#terry smith#chris martell#Bill Grefé‚ in many ways the Florida Man of indie filmmaking‚ turns his attention away from spooky ghouls and sci fi monsters toward a more#real social horror; that's right baby‚ it's drugsploitation time! benefiting from a slightly better cast than his previous pictures (ie.#some of them can act) and having developed his skills a little (a LITTLE) this is maybe on the whole a slightly better film than Sting of#Death or Tartu was... but with the increased finesse comes a decrease in charm‚ and without a jellyfish headed man monster or an everglades#murder ghost to enjoy‚ we're instead left with a gang of murderous drug dealers as they try to sell their villainous dope whilst also#killing pretty much everyone they come across. perhaps my lesser enjoyment is on me; the genre isnt one im particularly enamoured of and#tbh if I'm gonna sink time into watching objectively bad films (and like. i probably just shouldn't do that) but if i do‚ they should at#least have a Creature for me to enjoy. no creature here‚ just the heavy handed spectre of generational divide and societal failings#some trippy trip scenes in the back half are kind of cool and milton smith is a lot of fun but otherwise this is a little ehhh
