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The Tripper (2007)

Starring: Jaime King, David Arquette Rating: R (Restricted) Format: DVD
3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)


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Product Details

  • Actors: Jaime King, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Lukas Haas
  • Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Coquette Productions
  • DVD Release Date: October 23, 2007
  • Run Time: 97 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000TJBN76
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #21,310 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
  • For more information about "The Tripper" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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A crazed homage to 1960s and '70s drug and slasher exploitation flicks, The Tripper has "future cult movie" written all over it. A van full of neo-hippies (including Lukas Haas, Brick, Jason Mewes, Clerks, and Jaime King, Sin City) head into the California woods to attend a retro-60s rock concert (featuring the not-very-60s sounds of Fishbone)--only to find themselves harassed by backwoods rednecks and hunted by a Ronald-Reagan-infatuated serial killer. Along for the ride are a blunt but fair sheriff (Thomas Jane, The Punisher, sporting a seriously 70s 'stache), a jealous young Republican (Balthazar Getty, Lost Highway, and a venal music promoter (Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman). The Tripper vacillates wildly between trippy visual effects and spewing gore, reflecting writer/director David Arquette's clear appreciation of such lurid b-movies as The Trip, Psych-Out, Deranged, and Three on a Meathook. Thrown into the mix is political lampoonery far too broad and scattershot to be called 'satire,' but it's clear that Arquette (better known as an actor, Eight Legged Freaks) has no particular agenda--he's just making fun of everything he can think of, and the results are preposterous, gruesome, and sure to hit the sweet spot for a certain brand of cineaste. You know who you are; check this out. --Bret Fetzer


Product Description

Directed by, co-written by and starring David Arquette, this classic horror movie revolves around a group of friends who escape to a modern-day Woodstock concert for a weekend of debauchery, only to be stalked by a homicidal maniac determined to finish what he started years earlier.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars The Tripper Movie Review, October 28, 2007
By thejoelmeister "www.GoneWithTheTwins.com" (www.GoneWithTheTwins.com) - See all my reviews
  
From the opening quote by Ronald Reagan to the intensely sadistic violence in the first few minutes of the film, you know The Tripper will be loaded with sex, drugs, and rock `n roll - as well as extreme political jabs and hippie killing. So what's not to love? Well, as Reagan himself once said, "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jellybeans." No, I don't get it either.

A group of hippie fodder trek to a small town in the middle of a forest to participate in the Free Love Festival and indulge in massive quantities of narcotics. However, they soon discover they're not exactly welcome when they are assailed by paintball gun toting rednecks, the local police, and an axe-wielding serial killer who fancies Ronald Reagan.

The Tripper's strongest point of originality (not that there have been other hippie serial killer movies) lies within its psychopathic murderer who dons a suit, a tie, and a President Reagan mask as he metes out his vicious carnage. With an origin as brutally twisted as Freddy or Jason, Ronnie seems destined to make his mark as a deranged killer worth rooting for. And we do, but not because he's so compelling a villain, but rather because his prey is so uninterestingly bland - which is a shame when the protagonists contain six young stars and one of them is Jason Mewes, who should have been right at home with the offbeat comedy and drug humor. Jaime King adequately embodies the screaming primary victim, and while her character gets more interesting as the film progresses, there's still relatively little motivation to continue supporting her survival. The majority of entertaining characters are the supporting ones - those who give quick one-liners and quirky mannerisms and get out before their presence begins to bore. Of the main cast, Tom Jane provides the only praiseworthy performance as he takes the role just seriously enough without outstaying his welcome skepticism.

Deceptive trailer aside, at its core The Tripper is a horror movie. And while it does a decent job of bringing blood and scares to the table, the main course seems tainted with a bit too much social and political parody and an abundance of psychedelic contamination and cocky humor. The film doesn't take itself seriously and makes no attempt at persuading the audience to do otherwise. This wouldn't be a problem if The Tripper focused on comedy, but at every turn we're faced with another seriously demented killing and only mild spurts of dark humor. The less you know about the Reagan administration the less likely you'll appreciate the political commentary and jokes that pepper the script. At times the horror elements work surprisingly well, and with a uniquely terrifying antagonist, The Tripper starts to look wholly original. However it's not long before that illusion wears off and the film falls into a damaging amount of clichés for a film not parodying thrillers.

In this medley of blood, hippies, and Ronald Reagan, psychedelic creativity reigns supreme, but those not accustomed to Arquette's bizarre humor and unconventional antics (or who don't despise the fortieth president quite as much) may find this trip easier to swallow with real drugs.

- Joel Massie
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5.0 out of 5 stars Offbeat in a good way, March 3, 2008
By *Maureen* (West Haven, CT) - See all my reviews
i love horror movies and if its an odd horror movie even better!!! I thought this movie was original and had a great ending. Any true fan of horror will appreciate this movie. Good work Arquette i want more!!!

Maureen
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars HAHA, December 2, 2007
By Matthew Kunka (Canton, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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I am exactly 8 minutes and 50 seconds into this movie and I love it. I don't care if the rest of the movie sucks, the first part of the movie sold me on it. Any movie that starts with a kid shoving a chainsaw through some hippie's neck is OK by me!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Tripper
Hey, I was a fan of Ronald Reagan personally...and I thought this was HILARIOUS! Of course it's a horror film, but it's also absolutely a comedy. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Ramesh Hans

2.0 out of 5 stars A very confused gore fest
A group of hippies attending a modern day Woodstock-esque music festival find themselves being picked off one by one by a killer wearing a Ronald Reagan mask. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Genevieve Hayes

1.0 out of 5 stars You'd have to be trippin' out to enjoy the tripper!
This film is appalling. Not in the way 'so bad it's good', but so bad it's very bad. It has nothing to offer, apart from wasting an hour and a half of your life. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Rock Zombie

2.0 out of 5 stars Expect divorce papers from Courtney Cox
There's no need to beat around the Bush. This movie sucks. It gets lost in a haze of decent horror, poorly done dark humor, and atrocious inserts of political history... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Jason

2.0 out of 5 stars uneven mixture of politics, horror and satire
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In "The Tripper," a slasher movie with a political conscience, a serial killer wearing a Ronald Reagan mask stalks a group of anachronistic hippies (so... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Roland E. Zwick

4.0 out of 5 stars A homage/parody of the "themed" slasher films of the past
I was pleasantly surprised by how much fun I had watching this movie. In his directorial debut, David Arquette chose to do a homage/parody of the famous "themed" slasher films of... Read more
Published 19 months ago by B-Movie Fan

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting commentary in here somewhere.
Had I not read the reviews here and had an idea of what to expect from this movie, I probably would have hated it. Read more
Published 20 months ago by PureLake

3.0 out of 5 stars Deputy Dewey Directs
I don't really have a whole lot to say about this film. Arquette's film was an attempt at a spoof slasher political satire. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Stanley Runk

1.0 out of 5 stars Just boring
This isn't one of those cheap horror movies with bad acting that is still fun to watch because it's so ridiculous. This is just plain boring. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Jeffrey T. Kane

4.0 out of 5 stars Slasher Acid Trip
The Tripper
Is a campy,funny Movie by the demented mind of David Arquette.They dont skimp on the Gore either~!! Read more
Published 21 months ago by Dayna Newman

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