Freestyle Releasing announced today that THE TRIPPER’s release date has been bumped up from its original June 20th slot to the more appropriate April 20th. Yes folks, the movie about a bunch of fun-loving hippies at a concert, smokin’ weed, dropping acid… and getting picked off one by one by a Republican mass murder is seeing the light of day on 4/20 of this year. I f*cking love that shit. Coincidence? I think not.
Also up for a change is their AFTERDARK HORRORFEST II, which was looking to be released in October, and now has landed a November 9th slot. The first HORRORFEST was release in November, so maybe they’re seeing it as a good omen to release it at that time again…
Of course, these dates will probably change, as they’ve already been kicked around more times than a pumpkin on Halloween, but they’d be stupid to change the release for THE TRIPPER, due to its all-too appropriate nature. We’ll see.