Poster of the Week!- LSD-Flesh of Devil. Not only is today International Showgirls Day, but it's also the birthday of Dr. Albert Hoffman, Ph.D. The father of LSD turns a vigorous 100 today; he is the guest of honor at a LSD symposium in Basel, Switzerland. He refers to LSD as his "problem child", but it's unlikely Dr. Hoffman is aware of the "problem films" (or should that be problematic films?) his discovery inspired. And here, the inspirations should include not only LSD's mind opening effect on moviemakers and audiences, but also the exploitative angle pursued by hucksters (carny grads) who saw a vein of gold in the acid.
"Listen to the Sound of Love...Feel Purple...Taste Green...Touch the Scream that Crawls Up the Wall!" reads the tagline for Corman's The Trip. The tag for the film advertised by this week's poster is not as lyrical: "Five Dollars 'Trip' to the Moon". Perhaps, your passport to lunacy? A political statement on the concurrent billions of dollars and rubles spent on sending a man to the moon? Why do that if 5 bucks can offer you the same thrill? Well, maybe.
I have not seen LSD-Flesh of Devil, so I can't give you much more than what the poster offers. The IMDB has one user's comment, which is the only descriptive text I found about the movie. It's pretty good, actually: "The film postures itself as being anti-drug of course. The LSD trips represented are only somewhat hallucinatory using minor tricks of lighting or superimposition to portray the wild effects of the drug. There isn't much imagination (or money) spent on convincing us of the horrors of LSD so these sequences are unfortunately rather dull and repetitive which in turn makes the drug seem like a boring way to amuse oneself.... The best line in the film is spoken by the villain, Mister X, as he describes his international crime syndicate: `We're a secret organization with a strange name: ECHO."
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