Here's hoping...

I can get a copy of Matalo! 

I distinctly remember Wild East releasing this Spaghetti western some years ago but because Lou Castel did not really impress me, I passed on the opportunity.

Now I find out the villains are very hippie-like (there's nothing I like more in my Italian westerns and horror than hippie protagonist and antagonists), so I am hoping to track it down.

If you went by genre cinema, the Italian filmmakers did not like the counterculture. Queens of Evil and A Lizard in a Woman's Skin were primo examples of that disgust. In the former,  the villains are the status quo elders and our hero (or silly boy) is the hippie kid. In the latter, hippies are believed to be the monsters (the killer.)

In Matalo!, the hippie-like bad guys are plied against the status quo townsfolk.

 I own my three favorite Italian hippie genre films: Keoma, Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue (okay that's Spanish) and A Lizard In A Woman's Skin.

There are many I have not seen and I'd still like to. There's something about the counterculture that fascinates me more now than it did in the past.  I love bikers from 60s and 70s films and the books about the real ones from back then, hippies fascinate me even though I'm straight edge and psychedelia in clothes, films and art really floats my boat.

But there's something about the discovery of a genre film that incorporates this era that makes a must see for me.