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Reefer Madness
1936 | PG | 67 min
"America's newest narcotic menace!"
"Drug-crazed abandon!"
"The burning weed with its roots in HELL!"
"Women cry for it - men die for it!"
To celebrate the 20th of April, Midtown Cinema will feature the most infamous propaganda film of all time, 1938's morality tale REEFER MADNESS - a movie of mayhem, drugs, sex, and murder, caused by the then little-understood drug making its way around America: cannabis.
In REEFER MADNESS, a trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with (gasp!)***jazz music***!!!
See this wildly inaccurate and inadvertently silly exploitation film at Midtown Cinema, accompanied by a ZeroDay beer (open for food and drinks til 8:00pm!)
tickets at the box office or midtowncinema.com
ABOUT THE FILM:
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll (Josef Forte) relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens. In his story, a drug supplier entices several restless teens, including sister and brother Mary (Dorothy Short) and Jimmy Lane (Warren McCollum) and Mary's boyfriend, Bill (Kenneth Craig), into frequenting a "reefer" house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives and leads to a terrible crime.
Sun, April 20 at 8:30pm
Down in Front! presents MONSTROSITY!
"God-awful. There are no redeeming qualities to this film."
"The only good acting came from the cat."
"This movie is a complete waste of time."
Imagine the clever trope of mind switching a la Freaky Friday, the hubris of Frankenstein, the chauvinism of the 1960s, the budget that equals that of a can of Cream of Mushroom soup, put it all together and ET VOILA! You have MONSTROSITY!
In this 1960's sci-fi schlockfest, an aged woman (ewwwwww!) teams up with a mad scientist to experiment on young, beautiful women and transplant her brain into one of their bodies. It does not end very well!
Matthew, Jennie and Stuart welcome local bearded man Brennen Dickerson to take on this 60's sci-fi movie about a vain, vain old lady who wants to be young again because EW A WOMAN GROWING OLD!
Zeroday Outpost open til 10:00pm!
