Ghetto Freaks (1970)

Original title

Sign of Aquarius

Directed by

Robert J. Emery

Genre

exploitation film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

R

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A commune of hippies in Cleveland deals with drugs, racism, and free love. The film was originally made as a hippie movie but was later recut with extra footage to try to appeal to blaxploitation audiences.

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What happens

Ghetto Freaks is a 1970 American independent hippie exploitation film directed by Robert J. Emery and written by John Pappas and Robert J. Emery. It was filmed entirely in Cleveland, Ohio, and originally opened in Cleveland under the title Sign of Aquarius, alternately titled Love Commune. Shortly after that, the film was retitled Ghetto Freaks and edited to include two additional minutes of footage showing a young, handsome black man performing a blood ceremony with a group of robed young women. The Ghetto Freaks version was marketed as a blaxploitation film, despite almost all the film's actors, including the male and female leads, being white. The film has also been distributed under the titles Wages of Sin and The Aquarians (not to be confused with the 1970 television film The Aquarians starring Ricardo Montalbán). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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