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Reefer Madness

Posted by: Nick Laird
Date Submitted: Wednesday, July 7, 1999 at 23:14:49
Date Posted: Friday, July 9, 1999 at 10:11:20

Reefer Madness is a piece of anti-marijuana propaganda made in 1936 that is so bad that it's one of the most hilarious movies ever made.

The story is not what matters in this movie, but it can be summed up very quickly: clean-cut everyday kid gets his "harmless" tobacco cigarette replaced by a (GASP!) marijuana cigarette. He is instantly hooked and becomes a madman. This happens to some other everyday kids, with the same results. Then they start accidentally shooting each other, and, well...you can figure the rest out.

If the old Toho Godzilla movies are considered "B" movies, this movie would be a "D-" movie. I think it was created to shock school children and keep them away from marijuana. In the movie, pot has a magic ability to instantly transform normal kids into raving madmen and to completely send their lives down the toilet. Seeing the extremely pathetic actors attempt to act like madmen is only part of the fun. There's also the ludricrous storyline, directing, writing, just about everything. Add the fact that when the kids aren't on pot and acting like a mixture between actors on commercials for Preperation H and Mr. Bean, they look like their on heroin instead, and you've got about an hour (one of the best parts about the movie is that it's so short!) of pure bad movie entertainment. Recommended as a movie for parties of bad film lovers.

Rating: 5 turkeys and more, if that were possible.

Scene to watch for: The infamous piano scene. (FASTER! FASTER!)

Best line: (Not from the actual movie but from the trailer) "See Reefer Madness before this happens to your child, or your child, or even YOUR child!"


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