The Tripper is a 2007 slasher film which was directed by David Arquette and stars Jaime King, Thomas Jane and Lukas Haas. The film is a nostalgic homage to the exploitation films of Wes Craven and Tobe Hooper that follows a group of free-loving hippies who escape to a modern-day Woodstock for a weekend of debauchery, only to be stalked by a radical-minded psychopath dressed and talking like Ronald Reagan. Director Wes Craven makes a cameo in the film as a hippie wearing a top-hat. The film is directed, produced, written by and stars David Arquette. Arquette's wife, Courteney Cox Arquette, is... also a producer and actor in the film. The title is a play on Ronald Reagan's nickname of "The Gipper". In August 2007, writer-producer Fritz Jünker sued the Arquettes' production company Coquette Productions, Inc. for copyright infringement, claiming Jünker's 2001 film, The Truth About Beef Jerky, was the basis for The Tripper. The case never went to court, and was eventually dropped, because there was no evidence to support the claim. The premiere was held in the Del Mar theater in Santa Cruz .
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