The updated teen-rebellion flick is more fun perhaps because there was more-a lot more-to rebel with: sex, LSD, and, in 1968, electoral politics. (AIP, ever-prescient, released the film just pre-Chicago Convention.) Wild in the Streets is a decidedly dark satire that takes baby-boom youth culture to its extreme, positing a voting teenage public that elects a brash young rock star to the White House and makes mistrust of those over thirty the law. But as even Clinton would now admit, the fun is in getting there, and Wild in the Streets in its pre-election stages uses everything from stop-motion, split screen and fake documentary to Shelley Winters in high self-parody to set its subject in relief. Reviewers at the time felt compelled to debate the film, point by point, but today it looks like AIP at an apotheosis of self-reflexivity-it's about what Sam Arkoff knew since 1954: "52% of America is under twenty-five; we make big business big."