Moving on to:
Weird Hippie [expletive]:
Hex (1973)
Bizarre mixture of Western, motorcycle gang movie, comedy, love story, art film, drug movie, martial arts film, and horror flick. Two sisters -- talkative blonde flower child Acacia and laconic brunette Oriole -- live way out in the middle of nowhere, Nebraska. On a rare trip into the nearest town, they witness a bunch of motorcycle-riding World War One vets (and a few others, including one woman) have a race with a guy who owns a souped-up Model T. The friendly contest turns ugly, and the townsfolk chase the cyclists out of town with guns. They wind up at the farm of the two sisters. Despite some tension, the women give the gang food, shelter, and even some "loco weed" to smoke. Things turn ugly when one of the cyclists makes a clumsy grab for Acacia. The other guys pull him away, but Oriole casts a spell on him. You see, their father was a Native American shaman (mother was a European) and Acacia takes after him. The guy gets killed by an owl. Next, when the leader of the cyclists gets flirty with Oriole, the woman in the gang gets in an out-and-out fistfight with her. In return, she casts a spell that causes her to have terrifying hallucinations. When one of the gang threatens Oriole with a gun, she tells him to go ahead and shoot, which makes the gun explode in his hand. In the weirdest death scene, somehow an odd counting-out ritual between one of the gang and Oriole makes the guy fight the leader kung fu style. Along the way we get a shampoo commercial style romance between Acacia and the nice, bespectacled, mechanical genius of the gang, the on-screen birth of a calf, and some explosions. It winds up with Acacia and nice guy staying on the farm together, and Oriole going off to California with the leader. The woman playing Oriole always speaks in a low, nearly expressionless voice, which manages to be both bad acting and very effective. Add some wacky comedy music on the soundtrack and random uses of freeze frames. As a coda, the very last shot shows modern jet planes flying overhead, although the film is clearly set just after the First World War. I can't call it a good film, but its eccentricities make it endlessly fascinating.