Nightmare Prison Sequence In Anti-Weed Film "She Shoulda Said No!" (1949) (video)

In 1948, actress Lila Leeds was busted for marijuana along with actor Robert Mitchum.

She ended up in this anti-weed roadshow exploitation quickie...

...as a woman on the verge of becoming a dope fiend.

Leeds gives a powerful performance in this lurid thriller.


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Nightmare Prison Sequence In Anti-Weed Film "She Shoulda Said No!" (1949) (video)

Shocking Effects Of Marijuana On Users: "REEFER MADNESS" (1936) (video)

More vicious...more deadly...

...even than the soul-destroying drugs opium, morphine, and heroin...

...is the menace of marijuana!

The next tragedy may be that of your daughter...or your son...

...or yours...or yours...OR YOURS!


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Shocking Effects Of Marijuana On Users: "REEFER MADNESS" (1936) (video)

Greg Brady: STONED (For Real!) On Camera (video)

Greg Brady got caught smoking a cigarette in the episode "Where There's Smoke..."

Of course, that was just Barry Williams going by the script.
But that's nothing compared to the time he was stoned on weed...for real...during a scene!

It seems some visiting friends got Barry high once on his day off from filming.
But wouldn't you know it--he got called in to do a scene.

He starts it off by tripping over his bicycle pump.
And then he doesn't know what to do with himself.
...grinning like a loon...
...and looking at "Cindy" like she had two heads. 

Better stick to cigarettes, Greg!

(And dim those headlights.)

 

Originally posted on 4/11/18
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Greg Brady: STONED (For Real!) On Camera (video)

DOOBIOUS SOURCES -- Movie Review by Porfle

 

Originally postedon 12/28/16

 

Most people probably think it's more fun to write bad reviews than good ones.  But for me, it's way easier to write a review of a movie that I really like than one about which I can't think of a single good thing to say.

The stoner comedy DOOBIOUS SOURCES (2017) presents just such a dilemma.  Sitting through its amazingly long running time of 102 minutes while trying to glean some worthwhile tidbit here and there is a joyless, almost punitive task.  It's like getting fifty lashes in the public square and thinking, "Well, at least these shoes are comfortable."

Our heroes, Zorn Tappadapo (Jason Weissbrod, NEVER BEEN KISSED) and Reginald "The Reg" Block-Hunsleigh (Jeff Lorch, PICKIN' & GRINNIN'), are a couple of freelance investigative reporters who drive around in their mini-van trying to pull "stings" and sell the footage to the local news.

Their cameras are also constantly trained on each other as they hope to create a documentary about themselves, which allows us ("forces" might be a better word) to experience the entire story "Blair Witch" style.

One of their sting operations involves using a "Gregslist" ad to trick straight men into gay encounters in a motel room, with the latest victim, burly he-man Magnus Martindale (Joe Cortese of AMERICAN HISTORY X and JESSI'S GIRLS as sort of a Tim Thomerson type), striking back at them with a vengeance. 

Meanwhile, the boys hook up with a mousey TV reporter, Ky Kittridge (Creagen Dow), to get the goods on some crooked city officials using an RV as their surveillance base.

What follows is a needlessly convoluted series of unfunny situations with lots of screaming, sneaking, running around, and other frantic activity in a vain search for laughter. 

I got lost several times trying to follow the reams of dialogue these guys were firing at each other, much of it within the RV and all of it framed in claustrophobic style through a few handheld cameras. 

Even the "stoner" aspect seems tacked on--Zorn and Reg light up several joints while driving around or sitting on a stakeout, and they do the usual "sharp inhale, hold, cough" thing a lot, but there's never any real "stoner" humor like you might find in a Cheech and Chong movie.

In fact, the weed angle could be completely purged from the film without changing it a bit, just as long as the two main characters remained yakky, hyperactive jackasses.

As for the actors themselves, I think they all do a pretty good job with what they have to work with.  On a technical level the film is adequate considering that it's simply meant to look like a couple of guys filming each other. 

It would've been different if the "sting" aspect of the story had been interesting, or there had been some actual weed-related comedy (besides just puffing a lot of it and then acting stoned), or some funny comedy of any kind.  But unfortunately, DOOBIOUS SOURCES has the dubious distinction of making MAC AND DEVIN GO TO HIGH SCHOOL seem twice as funny in comparison.

DOOBIOUS SOURCES -- Movie Review by Porfle

HALLOWEED -- Movie Review by Porfle

Originally posted on 10/11/16

 

People thought I was crazy when I gave STAN HELSING a positive review way back in aught nine, but I showed them...I showed them all. (maniacal laughter)

Now, some may consider me equally crazy all over again, but I just watched the new horror comedy HALLOWEED (2016) and, believe it or not, I didn't hate it. Okay, it isn't great, and it's neither genuinely hilarious nor particularly scary.  But the darn thing's just so good-naturedly innocuous that it sorta grows on you.  You know...like fungus.

One good thing about it is a fair number of big-name guest stars, the first being Tom Sizemore.  He's a hoot in his brief role as a serial killer known as "The Bridgeport Butcher" who's strapped into the electric chair screaming curses at his popcorn-munching, party-hat-wearing audience as they cheer his impending flash-fry.

 

Also on hand are his son Joey (Simon Rex, HOTEL CALIFORNIA, PLEDGE THIS!) and stepson Trent (Shannon Brown, FEAST, CRAVE) to whom the condemned killer exhorts "Finish it for me, Trent! Finish my work! Avenge my death!"

Trent, a serious but troubled type not really keen on becoming a serial killer, moves to another town to escape his past and is joined by Joey, the classic movie stoner who's such a total weedhead that he makes Jeff Spicoli look like Whit Bissell.

The boys end up in a town called Mooseheart, which has its own serial killer legend ("The Candy Corn Killer") upon whom the citizens depend for their dwindling tourist trade.  After moving in with an old-hippie pervert named Lloyd (Robert Craighead in a wildly robust performance), Trent gets a job as a suicide counsellor to be near his pretty new co-worker Madison (the winsome Michelle Mueller, "Family Values") while Joey finds gainful employment as a weed dealer for none other than Danny Trejo (BAD ASS) doing a decent comic turn as "Patch."

 

Trent, unfortunately, runs afoul of the crooked mayor's spoiled-rotten son Connor (Jayson Bernard, "Family Values"), Madison's ex-boyfriend, while he and Joey are also comically harrassed by a pair of local cops, one of whom (Deja Dee, "Halt and Catch Fire") is inordinately fond of cavity searches. 

What really sets events into motion, however, is when people start turning up dead again.  Is it the return of "The Candy Corn Killer"?  Or is Trent really carrying on his stepfather's work?

Most of that stuff that I just said--you know, the "plot" and stuff--can be pretty much disregarded since HALLOWEED isn't exactly a serious thriller.  Most of the situations are of a surreal "MAD Magazine" variety similar to all those SCARY MOVIE sequels that Simon Rex has been in, and the overall mood of the film also resembles that of previous horror spoofs such as STUDENT BODIES and SATURDAY THE 14TH.

One plus is the fact that the comedy dialogue is actually pretty snappy throughout, and everything's done with a loosey-goosey style that never once takes itself remotely seriously.  Even the potentially offensive material is pretty inoffensive since it's just so pleasantly goofy.

 

The story takes it's sweet time getting around to anything "Halloween" related, though, and it isn't until around the halfway mark that we see the killer, a tall, giggling psycho in footy pajamas and a baby mask, dispatch his first victim amidst geysers of blood.  The film alternates equally between horror spoof and stoner comedy after that.

Ray Wise (CHILLERAMA, THE AGGRESSION SCALE, "Twin Peaks") does his usual solid job as a mentally unbalanced judge running for mayor, while Jason Mewes (ZOMBIE HAMLET, SILENT BUT DEADLY) is on hand as Joey's even more spaced-out partner in weed.  (Andy Milonakis of MAC & DEVIN GO TO HIGH SCHOOL also shows up as their junior apprentice but I didn't hold that against the movie.)

While the rest of the cast are fine, Simon Rex as Joey is the main attraction for me.  He's an endearingly dense stoner whose childish, impulsive behavior supplies a steady stream of sight gags and throwaway one-liners without the cliched hippy-dippy space-case approach.

He sorta makes me think of what Eb from "Green Acres" might be like if he were perpetually wasted and even more brain-damaged.  I also like the fact that Joey is gay although he insists that he isn't, except he totally is.  All in all, he gives the film much of its watchability.

HALLOWEED is a pleasant enough diversion, hardly essential yet innocuous and amusing.  As I said, I liked it about as much as I liked STAN HELSING.  That should probably tell you all you need to know about it.

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HALLOWEED -- Movie Review by Porfle

HIGH ON THE HOG -- Movie Review by Porfle

In one of his final films before leaving us in 2019, cult favorite Sid Haig plays Big Daddy, a professional weed farmer whose sprawling pot plantation is infiltrated by an ambitious young female undercover cop who becomes one of his harem of lovely farm hands in the seriously unhinged thriller HIGH ON THE HOG (2019).

This is against the wishes of her superior, the pushy and perpetually plastered Agent Dick (Joe Estevez, CAESAR AND OTTO'S SUMMER CAMP MASSACRE), who feels her too inexperienced for such a mission but would love to get Big Daddy and his "family" in his sights or at least send them all to the slammer no matter what it takes.

Meanwhile, a virulent new strain of weed has hit town that has those who smoke it going on pleasantly cinematic homocidal rampages and generally acting like gibbering maniacs.

Haig (JASON OF STAR COMMAND, CYNTHIA, MIMESIS) settles into the role of Big Daddy with a long-practiced ease and makes us root for him despite the fact that his easygoing fascade hides a very dangerous inner being. Estevez (who is, incidentally, Martin Sheen's brother) has a field day in the role of Agent Dick and the more outrageous his violent, drunken cop character becomes, the more I was rooting for him as well.

There's plenty of drama with Dick clashing with his female boss in addition to informers and various perps, not to mention the very imposing Robert Z'Dar as a smalltown mayor who aids and abets Big Daddy. Add to this the female undercover cop's increasingly dangerous mission, Big Daddy's bloodthirsty bodyguard, and lots of violence including a climactic gun battle.

Mostly, however, prolific filmmaker Tony Wash (SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET, IT'S MY PARTY AND I'LL DIE IF I WANT TO) uses this simple plot as a means to indulge himself in some of the wildest stream-of-consciousness filmmaking I've ever seen.

It's as though he watched NATURAL BORN KILLERS and PLANET TERROR before dropping acid and then filming whatever came blasting out of his thoroughly blown mind.

Indeed, the grindhouse look of PLANET TERROR and the mish-mash of film styles and elements that made NATURAL BORN KILLERS such an unpredictable visual patchwork seem almost reserved in comparison to Wash's turning the dial up to eleven and beyond.

The result is a constantly dazzling party for the eyes and mind in which the story of blustery Agent Dick and the imperiled undercover cop's dogged efforts to bust Big Daddy's operation is splattered with superimposed cinematic frou-frou.

This includes scratches and aging effects, film leaders, "scene missing" tags,  overexposed film, live-action characters turning into stop-motion figures, and almost literally everything else that could be thrown into the mix.

Many will consider this a superficial and overly self-indulgent attempt to make an average story seem more interesting and entertaining to watch, and perhaps it is. But if that's the case, then, for me at least, it worked.  And one thing's for sure--the people who put HIGH ON THE HOG together clearly had a ball doing it.


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TECH SPECS

Runtime: 85 minutes
Format: 1:85 Flat
Sound: Dolby SR
Country: USA
Language: English
Genre: Action, Crime, Alternative

HIGH ON THE HOG -- Movie Review by Porfle

"THE 420 MOVIE" Arrives on VOD April 7th -- See The Official Trailer HERE!

CELEBRATE "420" THE ENTIRE MONTH OF APRIL WITH

"THE 420 MOVIE"

"Hits" VOD On Leading Platforms April 7, 2020
 

SYNOPSIS
With grand ideas of leaving the broken city they grew up in, two sisters get roped into using their get rich idea to help their womanizing father save the city he loves from bankruptcy and a three foot tall Mexican drug lord.

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PROGRAM INFORMATION:
 
VOD: Available on Leading VOD providers (DirecTV, Dish, Spectrum)

Directed By: Robert A. Johnson (Jada)
Written By: Michael Anthony Snowden (Scary Movie 2)
Starring: Daniel Baldwin ("Hawaii Five-0"), Aries Spears ("MADtv"), Keith David ("Greenleaf"), Verne Troyer (The Love Guru, Austin Powers in Gold Member), Kelley Jackle (Pitch Perfect franchise), Lindsey McKeon ("Supernatural"), Krista Allen ("Baywatch") and rapper Aaron "Shwayze" Smith

Distributor: Sky Republic Productions
Run Time: 81:46
Rating: NR
Genre: Comedy
Language: English


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Song: "Sweet Marijuana" (1934) From Pre-Code Musical "Murder At The Vanities" (video)

The plot of this 1934 film concerns a murder investigation during a bawdy stage musical.

The film itself was released during the fabled Pre-Code era...

...shortly before the Hays Office would begin to crack down on screen immorality.

Hence, the inclusion of a song called "Sweet Marijuana"...

(sung by Gertrude Michael)

...and featuring a number of topless chorus girls.


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Song: "Sweet Marijuana" (1934) From Pre-Code Musical "Murder At The Vanities" (video)

"THE LEGEND OF 420": The Evolution Of Marijuana in Mainstream Society -- In Theaters Oct. 6

"THE LEGEND OF 420"

Directed by Peter Spirer
Opening in Select Theaters October 6, 2017

Available on VOD and iTunes
October 3, 2017

THE LEGEND OF 420 explores the controversial use of marijuana and the evolution of mainstream society. From a dangerous narcotic, listed as a Schedule 1 Drug substance since the 1970s, to the rush to decriminalize it today. What has changed and why? Has the Government made the war on drugs a war on people? Cultural icons and experts will weigh in, contributing their own personal stories, discussing the impact of cannabis on the zeitgeist.

In Northern California, we will follow the growers. What does it take to produce “quality stuff?” What is the difference between one plant from another. What are the true medical benefits? Why are people serving life sentences for marijuana convictions? What will the Cannabis Industry look like in five years?

There are now CBD infused dog biscuits, Bud and Breakfast hotels and professional cannabis cuisine and soon there will be cannabis-themed malls & amusement parks. Will it retain its integrity as a homegrown industry or will it capitulate to Big Business? “Fruity Pebbles” themed cupcakes for the “holiday” at the local baker? Yep…must be “420.”

THE LEGEND OF 420 is directed by Peter Spirer and written by Michael Andrews. The film is produced by Kelly Bevan and Peter Spirer. Executive producers are Phil Hunt and Compton Ross. Cinematography is Eric Anderson and film editing by Ryan Bloom.

RT: 87 minutes
IMDB:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7027566/
Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/legendof420/
Trailer:  https://vimeo.com/225004088

"THE LEGEND OF 420": The Evolution Of Marijuana in Mainstream Society -- In Theaters Oct. 6