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Electric Shades of Grey begins the way a movie of this kind should, with an accidental acid trip. A polite but rather self-righteous priest, with questionable hair, named John drinks some cola spiked by some hippie kids. After a horrifying day, bewildered and discouraged with religion, John quits the church and embarks on a road trip of self-discovery. After a while, John comes across a hitchhiker, a beautiful hippie chick named Sunny, of course he gives her a ride, the two hit it off just fine, deciding to hang together, camping out at night, getting high, really enjoying life. After a long, intense day involving birth, death and racism, Sunny professes her love for John, to her, he represents what love is all about, unfortunately our ex-priest is seemingly still a bit cranky over his mind being shattered by LSD and all, so not only does he turn the poor girl down, but he's rather cruel about it. Heartbroken, Sunny cuts out early the next morning, before John is awake, and naturally, after it's too late, our bewildered priest has a change of heart and from then on dedicates the remainder of his road trip to reuniting with Sunny, a potential soul mate. Does he find her? Does he just get high and give up? Or does everything just go to hell? To find out pick this up from the good people at Something Weird Video.Electric Shades of Grey aka The Psychedelic Priest is a masterpiece, no offense to Dennis Hopper but Forget about Easy Rider, Electric Shades of Grey represents that era in a much deeper, more realistic way, it's also more amateur and raw, and less tampered with, so naturally it seems more real. Pleasant little obscurity for those who don't take life (or movies) too seriously, but also a little on the sentimental side, and maybe a soft spot for drug/hippie movies with heart. For William Grefe's finest work, anything less than 10 would be a sin.
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