Reflecting a country in the midst of a seismic cultural change, cinema of the 1960s attempted to address the ills of a nation. Following a trail set by psychedelic drug use and political upheaval, filmmakers set out to create eye-popping, feral pictures that would appeal to a younger audience, often transforming parental figures and the rest of the establishment into villains, demonizing their authority and commitment to greed. A lesser known entry in the "groovy, man" uprising is 1969's "Cult of the Damned" (a.k.a. "Angel, Angel, Down We Go"), a movie that doesn't have much in the way of dramatic firepower, but it's drenched with period-specific malaise and rock and roll influence, emerging as a musical crossed with a teen angst drama, with elements of horror, abstraction, and daredevil sports poured into the brew. It's exhaustively repetitive and brutally snail-paced, but for those who automatically embrace counterculture cinema generated during this particularly volatile era, "Cult of the Damned" is a lost entry in the freak-out subgenre. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com