Scared Straight 4: Vintage Drug Scare Films | Mission

Submitted by the Event Organizer

With Scared Straight 4, guest curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of mind-expanding, terror-intending and hilarity-inducing short films about the dangers of drugs.

These classroom classics from the fear-provoked golden age of the late 1960s to the “enlightened” 1980s probably encouraged as many to experiment as it discouraged.

FEATURED FILMS INCLUDE:

• Narcotics: Pit of Despair (1967) — square kid has a puff and quickly ends up strung out on heroin
• The Perfect Drug Film (1971) — Beau “Stoner” Bridges gives you the straight dope
• Stoned (1980) — Scott “Chachi” Baio gets baked, hits his brother in the head with a boat paddle
• Marijuana (1968) — a gold lamé-suited Sonny Bono pot pow-wow!
• Dragnet: Little Pusher (1969) — so square it’s hip and back to square again
• plus the amazing psychedelic animation Fantasy (1975) and a long trailer for the exploitation film Marijuana: Assassin of Youth (1935).

(For more details on the films shown, see the extended Craigslist posting.)

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