The Hooked Generation

1968

Crime / Drama

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 96%
IMDb Rating 5.0/10 10 317 317

florida exploitation murder drugs

Plot summary

A trio of addicts make a move into drug smuggling with an ill-fated plan to use the Cuban Navy as their supplier that leads to kidnapping and murder.

Director

William Grefé Photo
William Grefé

Top cast

John Davis Chandler Photo
John Davis Chandler as Acid
William Kerwin Photo
William Kerwin as FBI Man #1
Jeremy Slate Photo
Jeremy Slate as Daisey
Stuart Merrill Photo
Stuart Merrill as FBI Man #3
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867.58 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
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1.57 GB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Michael_Elliott

Decent No-Budget Crime Picture

The Hooked Generation (1968) ** (out of 4)Three crooks decide that being the in-between for drug dealers isn't good enough so they end up killing and stealing some drugs from a Cubian drug-lord. After a shoot out with the Coast Guard the three try to make it to the top but things don't go as planned.Here's another extremely low-budget movie from William Grefe that I really wanted to like more than I actually did. As I'm going through the work of Grefe it's easy to see that he had a strong talent even though the films themselves really weren't all that good. These movies have no known casts, no budget and very little else yet Grefe managed to make them somewhat entertaining and at least professional looking. Compare these films to various other exploitation titles from this era and you can see the talent.With that said, THE HOOKED GENERATION starts off pretty good as we get into the double crossing and the ruthlessness of the three goons. None of them are what you'd call likable and I thought this was a good and entertaining approach. The film has some memorable moments but it's bad pacing and extended running time means that we eventually get bored and the final third of the movie is hard to sit through.
Reviewed by Poison-River 6 / 10

The Loathsome Generation

This is actually a pretty solid little drive-in filler, that is better than it really ought to be.The only real problem that I have with the film is that I find the three main protagonists(Acid, Daisey and Dum-dum) to be three of the most loathsome individuals in the annals of exploitation movies. The cold-blooded manner in which they strangle, harpoon, humiliate, rape and especially shoot people(mostly innocents) is pretty difficult to take over the 90 minutes and can make the movie a pretty nihilistic experience. However, all of this does mean that when they are eventually killed themselves, it's almost a blessed release.The film's plus-points are that it is pretty well acted, although the actor playing the perpetually stoned Acid does obviously have to ham it up a bit in order to appear out of it. The film also has a pretty good psychedelic acid-drenched guitar score. Also, when Acid is gunned down and killed, the psychedelic trip he experiences in his death throes is one of the best, and most convincing, ever filmed.Not a classic of the genre, but well worth catching.
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