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Try to keep your pants from coming off and your mind from expanding when watching this pair of drugged-up freak-out films. Produced by exploitation trailblazer David F. Friedman, The Acid Eaters (Byron Mabe, 1968, 65 mins.) is an utterly insane drug culture comedy, boasting nude body painting, violent catfights, death by quicksand, a visit to Hell, a giant LSD pyramid, pre-Hee Haw hay field burlesque bits, and rampant psychedelia. From there, we go to Weed (Alex de Renzy, 1972, 106 mins.), a drug doc, or pot portrait, if you will, that has porn filmmaker de Renzy traveling the globe (Vietnam, Amsterdam, Cambodia, Missouri) in search of the most "killer weed" and the people who grow it, traffic it, the customs agents who try to stop it, the drug dealers who push it, and the various types of people who Byron Mabe/Alex de Renzy---USA---1968/1972---212 mins.
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