
My current interest in seeing adaptations of Alice In Wonderland and the lack of sense in my noggin came together in Alice In Acidland. It's a 1969 anti-hippy movie written by Gertrude Steen and directed by Donn Greer under the name John Donne. Donn's is also the narrator. It's the kind of movie that needs a narrator, it has no recorded dialog. Sheri Jackson plays Alice Trenton, she provides some narration herself, and Alice's just started going to college. She meets some women and gets involved with their drug and sex parties. She has lesbian sex and takes some acid that destroys her mind. All in 55 minutes from Something Weird Video.

The DVD box is right, this is no fairy tale, though it's as heavy handed as the worst fairy tale. It's like the preceding anti-drug exploitation films like Reefer Madness and The Cocaine Fiends, not very truthful and full of fear. It's laughable in it's clumsiness. There's some nudity but it's not a sexy sort of film, kind of a challenging wank.


There's not much going on in the movie, Alice goes to a house for a pool party, then she's back for another indoor party. The last 10 minutes of the film are in color, depicting Alice's trip to madness. It's mostly slow zooms in and out of naked bodies with images dissolving and overlapping. It's all pretty dull.

Smoke And Flesh is a 1968 film by Joe Mangine, he's the writer and director. It's a slightly better film than the other film on the disc. I do like that Something Weird fills up their discs with another movie or two, plus some extras.

That biker is a guy named Turk, we follow him in his efforts to score some weed for a party. There's some nice shots of New York. He gets his weed and heads home. Soon people arrive.

Everything is going great, especially in the corner where they are playing strip tease with slot car racers. Then the bikers come. Turk lets them in because they said they were invited by the woman who just entered. Turk believes them until the woman tells him of an altercation with one of the bikers. When the biker's get too annoying Turk slips some acid in the head guy's wine. He starts to have a bad trip, images from the guy's POV flash as they cut from a positive shot to a negative shot. Not quite as imaginative a trip as the Alice film in that regard. Anyway, the flashes send the bikers home and the party goes back to having fun. There's a bit of nudity here and there but nothing too naughty. It was fairly entertaining and I'd watch it again.
There's a collection of trailers in the extras and a short film called Aphrodisiac! The Sexual Secret Of Marijuana. I'd seen it before somewhere.It's a documentary on the sexual use of pot. There are man on the street interviews, some bit of history, and dramatizations of the sexual effects weed has on some people. There's hardcore footage here and John Holmes is one of the people that gets some of that sexual effect. It's kind of fun.