Pick Up (1975)
Nothing like the exploiter you might expect from the film's poster, this is something else entirely.
Beginning with a young hippy type fellow picking two young women up in his RV the film then treads a path of the bizarre in what is possibly a journey of self discovery.
Whilst difficult to describe, it felt like a trippy look into Wyrd America with it's haunting shots of the Everglades along with strange sexual rituals involving sun Gods and wild mysticism. It certainly has an air of surrealism about it and the finished film feels more arthouse than it does grindhouse. You definitely get the feeling that Pick Up, had it been British, would have been released as part of the BFI's Flipside range.
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