Reefer Madness

Director: Louis J. Gasnier
Actors: Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig, Lillian Miles, Dave O'brien, Thelma White
Studio: Motion Picture Ventures
Category: DVD

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Rating: 74 reviews
Sales Rank: 57226

Format: Black & White, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 70 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5 x 0.6

MPN: 056775006297
ISBN: 6305066795
UPC: 056775006297
EAN: 9786305066798
ASIN: 6305066795

Theatrical Release Date: 1936
Release Date: July 7, 1998
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SEXY!    December 23, 2008
wally gator (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have always been baffled by the anti-pot movies of the thirties. I feel like, perhaps, the message is percieved in backwards. The women in these things are always so sexy. And completely wild and out of control. Rawrrr.

The message in Reefer Madness is this; Take the classiest dames you can muster up, and give 'em a puff of that wacky weed. Soon they will be laughing and peeling clothes off left and right beyond all bounds. The more the merrier. Right?

Anyways... I love a good cult flick as much as the next, but in all truth, this movie is fun once, and then you'll probably never have any interest again. I wish there were more thirties girls wriggling around in smoke ecstacy, and possibly a few more crazed murderers... plus theres way too many feds involved, being all dead pan and whatnot. I'm just on board for the sexy aspect, you know... and maybe the laughs. However, this is still a good "deal" when you consider the Mystery Science Theater commentary features (bonus feature, Reefer Madness gets MST3K'd, yo!) and also the colorized option, which is so overly colorized, you may think that somebody laced your stuff when you're watching it. For the extras, I will give this DVD five tokes, and a chest cough. Check it out.


So full of un-truths, it's funny!!!    December 8, 2008
B. Williams (California, USA)
This movie is so full of un-truths, it's funny!!! In a serious tone, this movie comes on scene to some normal young American youths, that are being led astray by a slightly older group of young adults who know better. This movie is racy for the time period that it was made in. It is set to be a serious likely-hood of what will happen to teenagers who fall into the wrong crowd and start experimenting with drugs. In this case, it's reefer or marijuana that is the drug, and in this movie, it's the side effects that are so unbelievable. Teenagers who are in the know now about the side effects of reefer, will laugh through this serious, and boring way two teenagers find trouble, when they start hanging around a new group of hip smokers. Becoming more sexually active, and irresponsible in their judgement, the teens begin their downward spiral in society. Our main hero is asked to drive while intoxicated by the reefer stick, when he has an accident and every lie afterwards gets him deeper into trouble and deeper into the rugged rage of reefer. If you are able to watch your way to the end of this movie, you might be able to understand why another movie 'Reefer Madness' was made as a musical tribute to this one. The musical, mocks the original with great energy, music, and color. All of which are missing from the first movie. Yet, only after I managed to watch the original, was I able to fully fall in cult classic love with the musical.


Hilarious Nostalgia!    September 21, 2008
Catherine Loewe (Gig Harbor, WA)
Reefer Madness In college, I saw this movie several times and it always mad me laugh - and it still does. It was created in 1936 to warn people about the dangers of marijuana, but they missed the boat. Way over-acted, ridiculous dialogue, but funny!


good stuff    April 9, 2008
A. Hagan (pittsburgh)
movie came fast and in great condition no problems what so ever

-hollywood


Entertaining propaganda    March 28, 2008
Genevieve Hayes (Australia)
Smoking marijuana will either kill you, drive you insane, turn you into a murderer, drive you to suicide, or at the very least, result in you having a very scary hairstyle. That is the message put forward by "Reefer Madness", an anti-marijuana propaganda movie from the 1930's. The film is heavy-handed to the point of being laughable and you will likely either find it boring, like my mother did (she kept on asking me when it was going to end, even though the running time is only 66 minutes), or so bad that it's funny, as I did.

The plot itself isn't all that bad. It's about a group of nice, clean-cut, high school students who fall in with a bad crowd and includes all sorts of exciting things like hit and run accidents and a court trial. I can see why this film was remade (as "Reefer Madness - the Musical"). However, at the same time I can also see why it was remade as a comedy.

Watch this film with a group of friends and rip it to shreds. After all, that's how this film because a cult classic.