Wednesday, March 18, 2015

The Acid Eaters (1968)

Wow, what a terrible movie. The plot of this movie as taken from IMDB is as follows: "A group of office workers go every Friday afternoon to the White Pyramid, a 50-foot tower of LSD." Sounds kind of cool right? I can just imagine all the trippy weird stuff going on. If this is what you were looking for like me, you will not find it here.

The movie has a really short run-time of only 65 minutes. Most of this time is spent following the group of friends riding around on their motorcycles. The plot is very thin and hard to follow. It is produced by David Friedman which would explain all the nude scenes. In my opinion that is really the only saving grace in this movie. I am a fan of the 60's nudie-cuties and the women in this one are decent looking.

What this movie really represents is a lesson in missed opportunities. The group travels to a LSD pyramid out in the middle of no where. The mis-adventures they have include exciting such as slowly riding their motor cycles through the mountains (I know this is the second time I mentioned this but it just took up so much of the movie), swimming in a "lake" of stagnant water, and hanging out in large drainage pipes. They could have done so much more... Finally when they get to the LSD pyramid, the action I was expecting to happen started. There was a weird devil (which was their dead? friend) jumping around and lots of weird scenes of free love and fantasy. But unfortunately this only took up like 10 of the 65 minutes.

The most cringe worth moments in this movie were when they were trying way to hard to be subversive. There were these silly shots of a couple on a park bench in the middle of nowhere reading, a subliminal shocked old lady that would appear for a second at a time randomly, and a native american resurrecting one of the guys dead girlfriend (who they let die in quicksand).

So in conclusion, for a 60's drug culture film, this is bad. For a 60's T & A film, this is also bad. I would skip this one at all costs.

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

I'm Back!

Or rather, it is time to actually start!  I got some great movies queued up to watch and review and I actually plan on making this blog happen.  If you happen to come across my pages, say Hi in the comments.  Feedback is always welcome and what I hope for is actual discussion of the some of the films reviewed.  Don't be shy about suggesting one I may have overlooked.