List of films featuring hallucinogens

This is a list of films featuring hallucinogens.

List of films

Film Description Hallucinogen featured Year Ref.
Altered States Believing that altered states of consciousness are just as real as "normal" consciousness, a professor of abnormal psychology combines a hallucinogenic mixture with sensory deprivation and begins to "regress" into progressively earlier stages of evolution. LSD, DMT, psilocybin 1980[1]
Apocalypse Now LSD 1979 [2]
Artificial Paradises 2012
Awakening of the Beast 1970[3]
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America 1996[4]
Blue Sunshine LSD 1978
Blueberry Ayahuasca 2004[5]
Brain Damage 1988[6]
Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus Jamie, a footloose and self-absorbed young American, is traveling in Chile and is keen to experience the mysteries of a local hallucinogen — the mescaline-bearing San Pedro cactus. Mescaline (San Pedro cactus) 2013[7]
The Doors LSD, Peyote 1991[8]
Dredd In this science fiction action film, the future United States is a dystopic irradiated wasteland known as the Cursed Earth. On the East Coast lies Mega-City One, a violent metropolis with 800 million residents and 17,000 crimes reported daily. The only force for order are the Judges, who act as judge, jury and executioner. Judge Dredd is tasked by the Chief Judge with evaluating new recruit Cassandra Anderson, a powerful psychic who failed the aptitude tests to be a Judge. Dredd and Anderson raid Peach Trees, a 200-storey slum tower block a drug lord selling Slo-Mo, an addictive new drug which reduces the user's perception of time to 1% of normal. (fictional) Slo-Mo 2012
Easy Rider LSD 1969[9]
Embrace of the Serpent The film tells two stories thirty years apart, both featuring Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his tribe. He travels with two scientists, firstly with German Theodor Koch-Grunberg in 1909 and American Richard Evans Schultes in 1940, to look for the rare yakruna, a (fictional) sacred plant. 2015
The Emerald Forest 1985[1]
Enter the Void DMT, LSD 2009[10]
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas LSD, mescaline 1998[1]
A Field in England 2013[11]
Hot Rod 2007[3]
I Drink Your Blood LSD 1970
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas 1968[9]
In the Name of the Father 1993[8]
Jacob's Ladder 1990[8]
The Matrix Mescaline 1999 [12]
Midnight Cowboy 1969[8]
Naked Lunch 1991[8]
Natural Born Killers 1994[8]
Nightbreed 1990[13]
Performance An ex-hitman (Chas) hides from his former boss by moving in with an ex-rock star (Turner) and his two girlfriends. Chas begins to leave behind his hypermasculinity, and under the influence of the hallucinogenic mushroom Amanita muscaria he admits that he is relieved to be out of the gangster lifestyle. He begins exploring his bisexuality and dressing in more feminine clothing, including a wig. When Chas' former boss finds him, Chas shoots Turner before being led to his own death. 1970[8]
The People Next Door 1970[8]
The President's Analyst 1967[8]
Psych-Out 1968[8]
The Serpent and the Rainbow 1988[14]
Seven Psychopaths In this metacinema crime black comedy film Marty Faranan is a struggling writer who dreams of finishing his screenplay, Seven Psychopaths. Marty's best friend, Billy (Rockwell), is an unemployed actor who makes a living by kidnapping dogs and collecting the owners' cash rewards for their safe return. His partner-in-crime, Hans Kieslowski - a religious man with a cancer-stricken wife - has a vision of his late wife telling him that there is no heaven and that she is just sitting in a completely grey room, which lets Hans doubt he believes in the afterlife. Peyote 2012[15][16]
Shrooms On a vacation in Ireland, a group of American students gather and eat psilocybin mushrooms. One of the group members accidentally ingests the wrong mushroom, a deathcap. She has a seizure and visions of her friends being murdered. As the trip continues, the group becomes separated and are murdered, apparently by an insane monk out of a ghost story from the area. 2007[17]
Skidoo 1968[9]
Taking Woodstock After unexpectedly becoming a key figure for the legendary three day musical event known as "Woodstock", without whom there would have been no venue, unassuming real-life small town local, Elliot Tiber (deftly played by Demetri Marti), runs into a couple camping out in their VW Bus on the hillside overlooking the surreal stage and crowd while the concert is ongoing. The couple convince Elliot to try some LSD, and what follows is perhaps one of the most realistic representations of LSD hallucinations, at least visually, to have ever found its way into film. Director Ang Lee wisely depicts a subdued but believable experience and does not fall into the cliché trap of over-exaggerated sights, sounds and interactions that reduce so many movies' attempts to portray a "trip" to the level of cartoon-like ridiculousness. A must-see for fans of the original documentary, the era and the music. LSD 2009
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny 2006
The Tingler 1959[8]
Training Day 2001
The Trip LSD 1967[9]
The White Sound 2002[8]
Young Guns Billy the Kid and his gang ingest peyote in an attempt to consult with spirits regarding their present situation. Peyote 1988
200 Motels "Vile foamy liquids" 1971

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Rosen, Winifred; Weil, Andrew T. (2004). From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs. Mariner Books. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-618-48379-2.
  2. ↑ "Acting under the influence: 15 stars who were on drink and drugs when they made their movies". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2017-08-24.
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  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Levounis, Petros; Arnaout, Bachaar (2010). "Movie Library – Hallucinogens". Handbook of Motivation and Change: A Practical Guide for Clinicians. American Psychiatric Publishing. p. 257. ISBN 978-1-58562-370-9.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Boyd, Susan C. (2009). Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the United States. University of Toronto Press. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-1-4426-1017-0.
  10. ↑ Cheney, Alexandra (August 12, 2010). "Hallucinogenic 'Enter the Void' Shakes Up Lincoln Center". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
  11. ↑ Burrell, Ian (28 June 2013). "Ben Wheatley and Film4 go where no British film has gone: 'A Field in England' to be shown on TV on the same day as its cinema release". The Independent.
  12. ↑ caktalfraktal (2015-07-04), Mescaline, retrieved 2017-08-27
  13. ↑ Packer, Sharon (2012). Cinema's Sinister Psychiatrists: From Caligari to Hannibal. McFarland. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-7864-6390-9.
  14. ↑ Mazur, Eric Michael (2011). Encyclopedia of Religion and Film. ABC-CLIO. p. 454. ISBN 978-0-313-33072-8.
  15. ↑ "Movie review: Seven Psychopaths, Lurid pulp metafiction with a sly touch of the Tarantinos". The Independent. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  16. ↑ "SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS REVIEW". IGN. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  17. ↑ Floyd, Nigel (November 20, 2007). "Shrooms". Time Out. Retrieved January 6, 2014.
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