The Strawberry Statement.
 

Never heard of it, but I will definitely check it out

I like the title. And titles can say a lot about a movie's quality. And the poster looks cool. I will have o check it out.

old horror movies are the shite. i'm not sure about the connection to death valley 69' though

Looks neat, thanks for the info-like stuff.

If anyone lives in the UK, this film is regularly shown on TCM. And it isn't a horror film; that poster makes it look several times more exciting and edgy than it really is.

Its about American university students in the late 60s / early 70s who spend most of their time lying around, listening to twee 60's music and talking naively about how radical and counter-cultural they are; which is all either very annoying or charmingly innocent depending on your point of view. The dialogue is very naturalistic (i.e., quiet) and the cinematography is tinged with beige, which it gives it an odd, dreamy quality. Overall, its fairly dull yet I have an inexplicable fondness for it.

I won’t spoil the ending, but its based on a real life incident as detailed in Neil Young's Ohio (I think?).

By the way, I've never seen the Death Valley '69 video, so I can't answer that.

Now qualify this statement.


cbeattie

It mostly applies to cheesy b-horror movies, which I thought this was. Stuff like Dead Alive, The Hills Have Eyes (the original), Evil Dead, Assault on Precinct 13 (again, the original) all have cool titles and are awesome movies, in my opinion. Obviously, not everyone will agree.

there is some riot footage, protesters getting tear gassed and beaten etc in the DV 69 vid... that would make sense in the context of Strawberry Statement as inferred above..

i have no clue, but the person with the glasses kinda looks like thurston.