CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM ADDICT

CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM ADDICT Production: USA, 1962 Director: Albert Zugsmith Category: Drugs/Slavery/Freaks Vincent Price is a sailor who falls into the clutches of Chinese drug-pushers. An exploitation film, mostly unrelated to Thomas De Quincey’s original book, but full of sleazy imagery. Zugsmith was something of a pulp visionary, producing Orson Welles’ Touch Of Continue Reading

LE BERCEAU DE CRISTAL

LE BERCEAU DE CRISTAL (“The Crystal Cradle”) Production: France, 1976 Director: Philippe Garrel Category: Experimental/Drugs Heroin chic to the max in this morbid, tenebrous trance-film which features the ultimate pairing of Teutonic rock sirens, Nico and Anita Pallenberg. Nico lies in a drug-induced near-coma, dreaming of mythical beings, before ending it all with Continue Reading