PICK-UP is another worthless exploitation movie from Crown International Pictures, although it's not quite as bad as the last two I watched, CINDY AND DONNA and BLUE MONEY. Unlike those films, PICK-UP has more than a plot, even if by the end it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense.

The storyline involves a couple of hitchhiking girls who accept a ride with a guy in a camper van. Before long the trio find themselves lost in the Florida Everglades where they have to put up with madness and the machinations of nature for company. Being a skinflick, there's copious nudity here involving characters randomly running naked through the woods, along with some sleazy flashback scenes of a character being molested by a perverted priest.

There are also some mild horror elements as the characters take drugs and suffer some bizarre hallucinations, and there's a horror climax of sorts involving black magic. It's all very cheap and silly, though, with very bad acting and production values, thus without much reason to tune in.

Hippie chicks Carol and Maureen get a ride from Chuck in his bus turned Mobile Home. Maureen predicts it's gonna be a bad trip because of his sign and the stars. Chuck is delivering the bus to Tallahassee but gets lost in the Florida Everglades. Maureen feels drawn to an altar in the swamp.

The actors mumble through their lines, not that any of the dialog is anything to write home about. The characters are bad. The story is worst. The whole thing is amateurish. It's a hippie mind trip for the exploitation drive-in crowd that titillates with some nudity. It may have some artistic pretensions but it is almost unwatchable.

Two young ladies standing in a field by a road get picked up by Chuck (Alan Long) who is driving a converted bus. The girls consist of Maureen (Gini Eastwood) who is into astrology, Rider Back Tarot cards, getting naked and becoming the High Priestess of Apollo fighting Pazuzu. Never mind that they mix mythologies. Carol (Jill Senter) enjoys smoking pot, flashing, getting naked, and having sex.

AS fate would have it, the bus must take a detour and gets lost and stuck in the Everglades where our threesome can frolic, flashback, and hallucinate clowns with balloons. This is a low budget 70's drive-in movie with very little plot. It is a movie designed for young teens to watch while smoking pot, get aroused and slip into the back seat for some action. I mean seriously, why else would anyone watch it?

Parental Guide : No f-bombs. Sex and nudity (Gini Eastwood, Jill Senter, Alan Long-rear)