The “grindhouse” is a family of films created in the 1970’s that were exceedingly bloody and violent with usually little plot line behind them. While this family has its own large following I would like to recognize another house of films that has come into its own lately, the “acid” house. In order to get into this house your film has to be about drugs or drug culture, it can be fictional or non-fictional, historical or pure fantasy. The genra type in this family is usually very artistic, pushing the limits of visual storytelling, camera and lighting work, even utilizing animated sequences. Some people will find these movies hard to understand and may be called “art” films but they are all a guilty pleasure of the avid film watcher. Every day I will be going through a list of films about drugs and commenting on the way that movies allow some of us a cross cultural view into the world beyond our own imagination.
I will be starting out with film titles that have numbers in them and then taking it alphabetically from A to Z. Each film will be analyzed and scored to see if it truly belongs in this new developing sub-genre. At then end we will have a definitive list of cult classics, films that stretch the limit of what a film can and can not contain.
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