While this feels like one of fake trailer’s from the Rodriguez/Tarantino “Grindhouse”; I did a little bit of research and “An American Hippie In Israel” is a real movie. But just barely.

Made in 1972, by first (and last) time director Amos Sefer with an Israeli cast; American Hippie (“The Hitchhiker” in Hebrew) follows a Vietnam vet seeking to make a desert utopia that quickly devolves into hellish struggle for survival. Featuring bombastic dialogue, loads of gratuitous nudity, anti Vietnam sermonizing, and most inexplicably killer mimes; “An American Hippie in Israel” was so bad that as far as I know it’s never received any kind of commercial release anywhere ever; living on only through a series of late night screening at single Tel Aviv theater in the 1980s.

That looks to change soon as a company called Grindhouse Releases has announced plans to release this soon-to-be cult classic on DVD; though even now it still lacks a firm release date or even a movie poster.

Israeli source