THE TRIPPER

[indianasmith]

After watching Brain Damage Films until I myself had become brain damaged (a word to the wise, avoid DEAD HOUSE at all costs, it's HORRIBLE!!!!!), I decided to actually watch a quality B-movie for a change.  So yesterday I rented THE TRIPPER, which was actually produced by Courteney Cox and David Arquette.
   OK, going into this, let me say I am a Reagan conservative and consider Captain Ron to be the greatest President of my lifetime.  HOwever, I have always tried to keep a sense of humor about my politics so I don't become an angry, bitter, venom-spewing white male like Mark Levin  ("Get off the phone, you big dope!") of talk radio fame. 
   My initial impression on this movie was that it took awhile to build any tension.  I really was beginning to get rather bored with it, but then the climax, when it came, was hilarious!  An axe wielding Reagan impostor running through a hippie camp in the middle of the redwood forest, slaughtering peaceniks left and right, to the tune of some heavy grunge music, made for a very amusing finale.  Best line in the movie was spoken by the girl lead's creepy conservative boyfriend right after "Reagan" buried an axe in his chest:
"But. . . . . I'm a Republican!"  Paul Rubens was also funny as the foulmouthed concert promoter, spouting 60's rhetoric but really caring only about his take from the Free Love concert.

[Sister Grace]

I didn't finish The Tripper, i got rather bored with it in the beginning and it couldn't hold my attention. I've since been told though that i should have finished it by the guy at the rental store.

[BeyondTheGrave]

I'm a huge punk fan as some may know on this board and the part where Reagan starts killing hippies and the song comes on "We are Reagan Youth Sing it loud" is a song from a old 80s hardcore band Reagan Youth from NYC and from my neck of the woods Queens. The leader singer died awhile ago and they reformed a couple of years ago and still play with the original gutarist. Not that good now a days.

I also have a huge back patch of them on my spiked leather vest.

Pretty useless facts huh

[Mortal Envelope]

I caught bits and pieces of this once a couple months ago when my roommate rented it - found the premise pretty funny, but that's because we had just dealt with a bunch of neo-hippies from the hooka fest so it kinda hit home.  I was surprised to see Jason Mews(sp?) of Jay and Silent Bob fame as a character other than Jay.  I didn't get a chance to check out the end though -but I found a raving lunatic Reagon-obsessed impersonator absolutely hilarious! 

Maybe this question results from me not seeing the whole show but...why is it called The Tripper?  Something to do with a neo-hippy's acid trip?

[Joe]

arquette directed it, i dug it and i own it.

[Panic_Attack]

Maybe this question results from me not seeing the whole show but...why is it called The Tripper?  Something to do with a neo-hippy's acid trip?

That's part of it...Reagan's nickname was "The Gipper".

Anyway, I thought this was a brillaint slasher flick. I don't know why I haven't bought it yet.

[Torgo]

It takes a while to really get going but once it does it's hilarious.  You just can't beat the image of a guy in a Ronald Regan disguise hacking up hippies with an axe.