Reefer Madness! (Tell Your Children)

A moralising cult classic from the 30s, designed to exploit fears of drug abuse while masquerading as a educational film in order to get shots of ladies showing their stocking tops past the stringent censors, Reefer Madness is a delirious riot of a movie in which we learn that smoking weed can lead to an interest in "Race" music (i.e. Jazz) played by wild haired dope lunatics with uncontrollable eyes and also jealous murder and frenzied attacks of dance fever.

Told by a concerned member of a PTA group, which was a common exploitation technique to give an air of respectability to a sleazy movie, it concerns a nice high school girl whose brother and boyfriend are dragged and drugged into the world of weed addiction.

Murder and insanity are the only logical and indeed moral conclusions in this "Sit up straight and pay attention at the back" exercise in authoritarian finger wagging. Laugh at the wild abandon, smoking, drinking and loose sex that ensues as people have a quick toke that will only lead them to...

REEFER MADNESS!!!


If you've been affected by any of the issues in this review, why not go and talk to FRANK