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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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 The film was originally made as a hippie movie but was later recut with extra footage to try to appeal to blaxploitation audiences.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)
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San Domingo (1970)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.