Svelte Susan Stewart (Like It Is) is Lila, a wigged-out go go dancer for whom a dose of LSD releases murderous rage in director William Rotsler's 1968 acid-fueled fantasy that shuttles from strip club to tawdry warehouse bedroom. Initially sold as a sexer, Lila delivered disappointing returns so distributor Harry Novak hacked out club footage and sold what was left as horror film Mantis In Lace. Also with Pat Barrington (Orgy of the Dead), Steve Vincent from Pandora and the Magic Box, and Russ Meyer regular Stuart Lancaster (Mudhoney). Cinematography was by László Kovács, who filmed Easy Rider for Dennis Hopper the following year. Lila's vegetable-heavy hallucinations were devised by experimental filmmaker gone nudie nabob Ed Blow the Man Down DePriest, and Baltimore's Vic Lance (Booby Trap) composed the memorable theme song.
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