AGFA (the American Genre Film Archive) has a Blu-ray
collection of “educational” films — that seem to be from another world — ready
for film fans to enjoy on July 28.
If you’ve ever been trapped in a high school
driver’s education classroom and forced to watch films on car safety, then you
have a pretty good idea where the collection titled The Scare
Film Archives, Volume 1: Drug Stories is
coming from. Certainly, if you can
teach youngsters to drive, you can also teach them, with films, that DRUGS ARE
BAD!!!
11 glorious short films have been dusted off and
given 2K restorations from their original 16mm prints … you will learn that the
evils of drugs, bad trips and costly decisions are just a puff away.
Included in the mix are director Paul Burnford’s 1967
short documentary, Beyond LSD and
Max Miller’s film from the same year, LSD:
Insight or Insanity? Continuing
in that vein we also have documentary filmmaker David Parker’s surreal LSD-25
(also from 1967 … must have been a very trippy year), which has the culprit
itself, a tab of LSD narrating its own story (if that doesn’t wig you out, then
nothing will).
Other gems in the mix are director Herk Harvey’s
little story about three friends out driving under the influence, None for
the Road (1957), filmmaker Dave Dixon’s
1968 “Alice in Wonderland” trip, Curious Alice, and
the ultra weird, The Trip Back With Florrie Fisher as
directed by Ralph Weisinger in 1970.
There is also a full-length mixtape from AGFA titled
Drug Stories! Narcotic Nightmares and Hallucinogenic
Hellrides included here as a bonus.
And, as public service, all of the films included in
The Scare Film Archives, Volume 1: Drug Stories comes
with subtitles. Oh my!!
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