Alice is a suburban teen who is "led" (although, it is essentially her choice to follow this path) into the world of sex, drugs, and excess, unable to escape this lifestyle which costs her dearly. LSD, as the serious narrator at the beginning informs us, is the ultimate culprit for which Alice falls prey, leading to an unfortunate situation. The film does also feature narration from Alice who talks about her experiences, as she descends into the abyss. Basically "Alice in Acidland" is a skin flick masquerading as a "morality tale", with lots of female flesh to admire and ogle. Most of the film consists of women and men fondling each other and kissing (including some (mild) lesbianism, one scene involving Alice herself) when they get together for sex/drug parties. I believe this film was shot absent sound mic as there is never actual spoken dialogue, just a blues soundtrack and narrative bits here and there. This concludes with a color psychedelic sequence that is all kinds of weird as Alice has one too many acid episodes, resulting in a tragic outcome. I always think about these 60s/70s oddities and imagine there are 60 somethings who have completely forgotten about starring in stuff like "Acid in Acidland", probably too stoned to remember the experience. I look at these movies as time capsules into a time where decadence and sexual liberality were at an all time high, kind of a peering into the embracing of naughty behavior, as rules on morality were changing. This is still before the hardcore sex era in the 70s so the sexual sequences are of a softcore variety, nothing that explicit to report here.
Review of Alice in Acidland
