Hey hey, we’re bringing this psychedelic, chaotic cult-classic, adventure-mystery-musical, docu-satire back to the big screen to celebrate its full-throttle whacked-out absurdity and its 55th Anniversary. Starring The Monkees and featuring some terrific Monkees music (including soundtrack gems like the dreamy psych-saturated Porpoise Song), Head was the group’s career-suicide move, a "mind-bending cinema experiment in pop-art” (American Cinematheque). Filmed in California and directed/co-written by Bob Rafelson (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces), the movie arrived not long after the band’s popular TV show was axed, confusing both reviewers and audiences. Unapologetically containing no discernible plot, it tracks Monkees members Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz through hallucinatory escapades as they encounter everyone from swamis, mermaids, kissing-competition judges and bellydancers to politicians and critics, played by big kahunas like Dennis Hopper, Frank Zappa and co-writer Jack Nicholson. Throughout the musical numbers, farcical scenes and extended non sequiturs, the four Monkees throw both themselves and the entertainment industry they're sending up on a bonfire and delight, like you will, in watching it burn.

Rarely seen on cinema screens in the last five decades and largely a flop on its release in 1968, like many cult film curios, Head is nonetheless a must-see. It’s a film that has only improved with age and critical revision, and one that arguably contains some of The Monkee's best music. Was the film conceived to kill off The Monkees and all they’d achieved to date? Were the writers commenting on Hollywood, the American way of life and the darker side of the sixties including the Vietnam War? Or was everyone involved just stoned or tripping on LSD? If the latter is true, were they having a good trip or a bad trip? Make up your own mind as you experience all of Head's zaniness and kaleidoscopic mayhem while The Monkees "satirise established genres of American cinema, exploding many a sacred cow into the bargain.” [Time Out]