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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Notebook Soundtrack Mix #12: Trippin' on Eggshells — The Hippie Exploitation Mix on MUBI
- 1 2 50 Far-Out Films About Hippie Subculture - Flavorwire
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Top 10 Hippie Horror Films|HNN
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- ↑ Jeff Stafford (2009). "The Love-Ins". Turner Classic Movies. Turner Sports and Entertainment Digital Network. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
- 1 2 HOW HOLLYWOOD HANDLED THE HIPPIES - Please Kill Me Online
- ↑ 10 Strange Things You'd Better Not Eat or Drink! - Bloody Disgusting
- 1 2 How Exploitation Movies Exploited Charles Manson and Hippie Hysteria - Film School Rejects
- ↑ THE NIGHT GOD SCREAMED (Lee Madden, 1971) on Vimeo
- ↑ 'Grease Is the Word' - Google Books (pg.93)