Monday, April 11, 2022

Gas! (1970)

A hippie satire, and thus of course makes little sense. Even if you are on acid.

The US has developed a chemical weapon that can kill everyone over the age of 25. Naturally this weapon escapes and does it's worse and most of the world population is wiped out. 

Coel (Bob Coroff) and Cilla (Elaine Giftos) escape Dallas, which is now run as a deranged dictatorship by a young ex-cop with a whip, and head across the US to seek a commune. They run across a series of strange obstacles including a cowboy who steals their car and a record shop guarded by a wannabe freedom fighter...

Don't worry about the story to be honest, enjoy the film for it's period music and styles. The soundtrack is great and the flower power girls looked amazing. Anti-establishment but not anti-groove.