NEW! Boozers & Losers V02
Alcohol is Dynamite, There's a Message in Every Bottle, Becky, Alcohol in the Human Body, Far from Alone, Times 25
You drink, you die. It's that simple. Want proof? Watch this second volume of Boozers & Losers and learn to hate alcohol. Hiccup! Alcohol is Dynamite (b&w): From the early pantheon of SID DAVIS comes this horrifying slice of shock cinema guaranteed to make you think twice about having that next beer. Two underage boys ask Tom Ohlman, sports writer on the city paper, to buy beer for them. Instead, Tom tells them the Tragic Tale of Paul, Jim, and Tip, three high school buddies who sample booze and are soon spiking soft drinks at Scotty's Sandwiches, getting their girlfriends snockered, and committing vehicular homicide. After all, Alcohol is a violent narcotic! Jim even ends up on skid row, a hopeless derelict. Remember: Like dope addicts, one drinker can't stand the sight of somebody not drinking! So grab a cold one and prepare for scare. Scary says, Trippin' on Sid! There's a Message in Every Bottle (color): A big, swinging Russ Meyer-style soundtrack propels this colorful firewater epic about swingin' teens with false I. D.s which jumps from crazy beach party antics to astronauts in space to tigers in cages! Wow. Then, oh geeeez, it all gets gross with some real-life car accident snuff footage - no surprise since this was produced by EARLE DEEMS (Signal 30). The booze bottles even have scary faces painted on 'em! Scary says, Firewater-world! Becky (b&w): An eerie short focussing on the death of 13-year-old Becky at the hands of a drunk driver. Dark, depressing, and sad, this is one to sober up to. Scary says, Not a party movie! Alcohol in the Human Body (b&w): Super-crazy Sid Davis animated / stop-motion science lesson giving you the instant dope on alcohol. No moralizing, no death, no lectures, and no over-dubs make this somewhat of a curio from the Master of Social Disaster. Scary says, Dynamite Davis' softer approach! Far from Alone (b&w): Big-budget Women's Temperance Union attack on alcohol involves a scandal which ensues after a high school quarterback refuses to appear on a television program which has a beer company for a sponsor. Questions of morality fly around willy-nilly but for a real buzz try to watch the conclusion while inebriated. A doozey! Starring a young, pre-blonde SALLY FRASER (Giant from the Unknown) and JAMES LYDON (Strange Illusion). Directed by JEAN YARBROUGH (Hillbillys in a Haunted House). Scary says, Temper temper! Times 25 (color): Not-yet-President RONALD REAGAN shows up standing next to a mangled automobile railing about problem drinking. He asks a bunch of questions and says that if you answer yes to at least one you are a problem drinker. Or a Commie. Scary says, Common sense from the man who pacified protests at Berkeley with batons! - Scary Ed
Code: SW7658 Genre: MQH Genre2: DQS Retail: $15.00

Maniac
Presented in Association with The UCLA Film And Television Archive. Wavering between dirt-budget horror movie and mental illness docudrama, this surreal cult classic is spiced with shocking outbursts of violence, nudity and morbid humor. Includes the ori
Directed by Dwain Esper | U.S. | 1934 | 60 Minutes | B/W
Code: VVKI3103 Genre: MQH Genre2: DQS Retail: $19.99

Mindbenders: Scary Drug Education Films from the 60s V01
The Mindbenders, LSD - Trip or Trap?, LSD - Trip to Where?, LSD!
Rock Festivals! Hippie Chicks! Damaged Chromosomes! If LSD really provokes hallucinations of tarantulas and Orientals as suggested in the FDA's The Mind-Benders: LSD and the Hallucinogens then count me out! Furthermore, it leads to parties with sitars, which we all know means terrible music, games of Go, and open-mouthed droolers. One user talks about the time he was having sex and his lady friend morphed into a flesh-dripping monster face. Obviously, he's not used to marriage. High schoolers' interest in model planes wanes as they're turned on to the drug in LSD: Trip or Trap? Peer pressure is tough to ignore, but not as tough as the mod girl who takes a post-trip visit to the hospital with oozing pustules on her hand, or the photo montage of deformed babies whose pregnant mothers were sucking tabs. In LSD: The Trip to Where?, scientists express their desire to see how LSD would affect monkeys. Hell, who wouldn't, science degree or no science degree? TIMOTHY LEARY is interviewed, but even he is dwarfed by the presence of B-movie legend RICHARD LYNCH who admits to being an LSD freak that set himself on fire. Gee, from his bravura performances in the likes of God Told Me To, Puppet Master 3, and Scanner Cop, I never would have guessed. Even this short's director appears onscreen at the end to fess up that he dropped a dose in order to know about the subject he was filming. Lastly, there's the cleverly titled LSD, a military-issued diatribe against the drug in which some squeaky-clean, apple-pie officer stands by a blackboard and talks to the camera. Yep, this is a lecture, so we finally learn just what LSD must stand for: Lectures Suck... well, you know the rest. From 16mm acid-happy prints. Rod Lott, Hitch magazine
Code: SW4254 Genre: MQH Genre2: DQS Retail: $15.00

Mindbenders: Scary Drug Education Films from the 60s V02
Acid, LSD-25, LSD - Insight or Insanity, Trip!
So if LSD is so bad, why do these four films all associate it with cool animation and groovy music? Visually, Acid is as out-there as any Hollywood sci-fi film of the era, with lots of whacked-out acid trips recreated for the camera. We also see lab rats on a hit, men running through fields screaming, and two hippies going apeshit over an anthill. A tripping black guy keeps looking at his hand and twirling a rose, while an artist draws a picture of a fetus about to be clawed by monsters... and all with an NEA grant! LSD-25 uses the gimmick of having the narrator be the drug itself! To wit: In just a few moments, I will show him glimpses of distorted beauty... or tumble him into a private hell! A mop-topped lad on a bum trip squawks like a chicken and screams, Get me outta this terrible place! A faked transaction makes it look as though the pusher was selling cubes of beef bouillon. Rebel without a life SAL MINEO narrates LSD: Insight or Insanity? He doesn't appear onscreen, but if he did, I wish he'd wear his monkey getup from Escape from the Planet of the Apes, just to screw with the heads of anyone who might be imbibing while watching this short. After swallowing goldfish and ironing their hair, the teens-on-acid here hallucinate about taking a tricycle spill down the stairs or being locked in a fridge. One girl boiling eggs suddenly mistakes the gas flame for a flower. Pretty! If scenes of cliff-jumping and running in front of cars isn't enough to make you forego tripping, howzabout some pics of deformed rat fetuses? It all ends in a fatal game of Russian roulette. No less an outfit than the U.S. Navy was behind Trip to Where, which details three buddies who drop a dose or two. According to this, at worst, you'll think you're being chased by sword-wielding thugs on horseback or see yourself as a girl when you look in a mirror. And, at best, you'll be plopped into something resembling the series finale of Twin Peaks minus the finger-snapping midgets. From 16mm where's-Peter-Fonda-when-you-need-him? prints. Rod Lott, Hitch magazine
Code: SW4255 Genre: MQH Genre2: DQS Retail: $15.00

Narcotic and Maniac

Directed by Dwain Esper
Code: DDKI1422 Genre: MQH Genre2: DQS Retail: $29.99

Narcotic
Presented in Association with the Library of Congress. Never before on video, Kino presents the long-awaited drug scare masterpiece from Dwain Esper (digitally mastered from a 35mm print). A vulgar exploitation film with high art aspirations, Narcotic is
Directed by Dwain Esper & Vival Sodar't | U.S. 1933 | 60 Minutes | B/W
Code: VVKI3083 Genre: MQH Genre2: DQS Retail: $19.99