{{For|the song by Meat Beat Manifesto|99% (Meat Beat Manifesto album)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Hallucination Generation | image = Hallucination Generation.jpg
| caption = Theatrical poster | director = Edward Mann | producer = Nigel Fox | writer = Edward Mann | narrator = | starring = George Montgomery<br />Danny Steinmann | music = Bernardo Segall | cinematography = Francisco Sempere | editing = Fima Noveck | distributor = Trans American Films | released = {{Film date|1966|12|1}}(United States) | runtime = 90 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = }}
'''''Hallucination Generation''''' is a 1967 drama film by Edward Mann. Purportedly intended as a warning against the dangers of pill-popping 1960s hedonism along the lines of 1936's ''Reefer Madness'', the film's primary purpose appears to have been titillation, thus landing it in the genre of exploitation cinema. It is often cited as an example of counterculture cinema.
The main setting is Francoist Spain, where a group of American expatriate beatniks are initially living carefree lives on Ibiza. Their supposed advisor and actual leader uses drugs to lure the group's members into lives of crime. A new recruit takes part in an LSD-induced crime spree which ends in the murder of an antiques dealer. The recruit subsequently seeks refuge in a monastery.
==Plot== The film is a drama set in Francoist Spain, where a small group of American young adults is living. The leader of the group is a drug dealer. The others are there living carefree lives as beatniks. The leader has more nefarious aims in mind, and uses drugs to lure the others into lives of crime.
George Montgomery is the psychedelic advisor to a circle of young expatriates living on the Isle of Ibiza. Visitor Danny Stone, who avoids taking part in the fun until his mother cuts off his allowance, seeks help in a monastery after an LSD-induced crime spree results in the murder of a Barcelona antiques dealer. The real world is black-and-white, the LSD trips are in color.
==Casting== The film features Renate Kasché, Tom Baker, Marianne Kanter, and Steve Rowland.
==Production== Filmed in Spain. Most of the film is in black and white, but there is a psychedelic sequence depicting the purported effects of the group using LSD which was filmed in color.
==In popular culture== The film inspired a 1989 song, "Hallucination Generation" by the new beat band The Gruesome Twosome.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jun/17/features.musicmonthly6|title=50 all-time teenage classics|website=TheGuardian.com|date=16 June 2007}}</ref>
==See also== * Hippie exploitation films
==References== <references />
==Further reading== * Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, Michael Weldon, Ballantine 1983, pp. 302
==External links== * {{IMDb title|0060488}}
Category:1967 films Category:1967 drama films Category:1960s exploitation films Category:Films set in Ibiza Category:Films about murder Category:Films about hallucinogens Category:LSD Category:1960s educational films Category:Psychedelic films Category:1967 English-language films Category:1966 American films Category:American educational films Category:English-language documentary films Category:Beatniks Category:American documentary films Category:Works about Francoist Spain
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