REEFER MADNESS

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Showings

Chauncey -Theater 1 Wed, Apr 20, 2022 10:00 PM
Event Info
Dialogue:Lucas Donnan
Series Info
Series:Late Shift at the Grindhouse
Science on Screen
Film Info
Rating:Not Rated
Runtime:66 minutes
Director:Louis J. Gasnier (Murder on the Yukon)
Year Released:1936
Production Country:USA
Language:English
Website:facebook.com/ICgrindhouse

Description

Wednesday gets weird when Late Shift hosts Ross Meyer, Joe Derderian and Aaron Holmgren dig up low-budget b-movies, horror and gore-fests, and camp classics for your viewing pleasure. Buy your ticket and take a ride in our Time Machine! Punch in and earn a bonus! $3 Pabst Blue Ribbon tallboys and $2 small popcorn! PLUS -- special custom trash trailer reel curated by Ross with cheap swag and prize giveaways!

Perfect for 4/20, this landmark propaganda gigglefest is back in a new 2K presentation also featuring vintage trailers, commercials and ephemera from the AGFA vaults!

A Science on Screen® Event 

Pre-show presentation: A Blazing New World: The Food Science of Cannabis w/ Food Scientist Lucas Donnan

Join us for a pre show cider tasting featuring the release of Fishback & Stephenson's Cherry Kush. Fishback & Stephenson has partnered with Kevin Smith to create the limited edition Jay and Silent Bob can, which will be available for sampling. This special edition cider will also make an appearance in the upcoming debut of Clerks 3!

 

"This is the Jaws of midnight movies."—The New York Times

"The scenes of wild-eyed characters frantically puffing on pot are unforgettable. Most of them end up dead, imprisoned, or ruined for life."—Michael J. Weldon, The Psychotronic Video Guide

"The explorations of vice promised vivid displays of human shame and debauchery, and it was for this dramatization that tickets were purchased. The resurgent camp interest in films like Reefer Madness often presumes that cinema has evolved into a more enlightened, knowing medium, far more sophisticated than creaky, amateurish exploitation. But in reality, current film is only more practiced at hiding its replaying of old conventions."—Felicia Feaster and Bret Wood, Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film

Reefer Madness is one of the first unintentional cinematic gutbusters, a proto-noir melodrama so preposterous it’s like a transmission from Mars. Originally an Afterschool Special for the tent revival set, a modern Reefer viewing is a hilarious romp through the American establishment’s bottomless paranoia -- proving how far we’ve come, and how far we’ve yet to go.

For eighty years since its creation, this seminal cult classic has captured the imaginations of stoners, curiosity seekers and movie maniacs. Come join the party—vive le reefer!

Film courtesy of the American Genre Film Archive.

An initiative of the COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE, with major support from the ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION.