Arrebato (1979)
José Sirgado (Eusebio Poncela, The Cannibal Man) is a frustrated horror film director who is addicted to heroin and his relationship with Ana (Cecilia Roth, who was in several Almodóvar movies). The cousin of an ex-girlfriend — someone he only met twice — sends him a package that contains a cassette, a reel of film and the key to […]
The Acid Eaters (1968)
The poster for The Acid Eaters is, of course, a billion times better than the movie it’s selling, but how many films have a bunch of people climbing a fifty-foot tower of LSD cubes? One that I can think of. Under the name B. Ron Elliott, this film’s director, Byron Mabe, made a nudie cutie with perhaps […]
Acid Delirium of the Senses (1968)
One part mondo pseudo-doc about the Italian drug scene and one part hippy vs. organized crime caper film, Giuseppe Maria Scotese’s Acid – Delirio dei Sensi is right up my alley in two different much-loved film genres all smashed together. While I’ve never done acid, I can tell you that I truly doubt if anyone who made […]
The Trip (1967)
Directed by Roger Corman, written by Jack Nicholson and released by American-International Pictures, The Trip cost $100,000 to make and brought in $6 million dollars. Hollywood was listening, because within the next year, movies for the love generation were all over the place*. In fact, seven years after this movie, AIP’s Samuel Z. Arkoff said, “Everybody else […]
Narcotics: Pit of Despair (1967)
Herbert P. Caine is the pseudonym of a frustrated academic and genre movie fan in Pennsylvania. You can read his blog at https://imaginaryuniverseshpc.blogspot.com. Narcotics: Pit of Despair is an over-the-top yet at times effective anti-drug short from 1967 tracing the fortunes of a hapless college student who quickly declines from Lawrence Welk Show extra to […]
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