The Acid House Reviews

Great film/s! The Granton Star Cause & The Acid House being the best!
A great adaption from Paul McGuigan!

A weak adaptation of Welsh's short stories. A few interesting parts, but you're better off reading the book or seeing Trainspotting.

The Acid House is a vulgar and perverted literary adaption, of three short stories, in the Scottish slums. It is loaded with profanity, and makes the viewer feel like trash, just by watching. Coming into the viewing I heard nothing of it, but judging it's negative critical reception, and lack of publicity, it's one of the most underrated films I ever encountered. It was hysterical black humor, and probably the best film I've seen from the nineties.

The first story follows Boab, a lazy lump of dirt, who looses everything in a matter of a few hours. After a bar man philosophical meeting with God, he is turned into a fly. The meeting was surprisingly deep, and asks the true question of "why don't we use our powers". As a fly he gets revenge, and sees with the audience a scene of incredible disturbance.

Then there's the most emotionally dwelling story "The Soft Touch". A truly caring but naive man, marries and impregnates a whore. Obviously enough she openly cheats on him, and everything goes down, for the man with no escape. The setting was tense, and while the ending was anti-climatic, it was the most well made of the shorts.

Finally there's the story that the film invests the most effort into, The Acid House. This was absolutely, the best midnight humor I've ever came across. Dirty, crazy, and makes Trainspotting, look like it copped out. A dope head switches bodies with a newly born baby, and while switch of bodies has become a comedy cliche, this one actually made it work. I laughed eccentrically and it really completed the film, if there's any reason to finish it, here you go.

In conclusion I can't explain my love for this film enough. The score and white trash setting put a mood. The small things like the graffiti and the bigger aspects such as the characters all had there contribution. I laughed and could still take the next scene with seriousness. The Acid House is not acclaimed nearly enough. I highly recommended to anyone who's willing to vitiate there brain, for two hours. I hoe all will love it as much as myself, though that's unlikely

Funny, but only the third story is good.

Based on short stories by Irvine Welsh-writer of Trainspotting. Sick & Depraved, just like, i like em

A very disturbing but extraordinarily powerful presentation of the dimensions of psychosis, egomania and other human idiosyncrasies. Not for the squeamish or those given to prudery. Inventive in its cinematographic technique, if you liked the toilet sequence in Trainspotting you'll love this.

It's premise, three short stories, is it's downfall essentially as a lack of time to further explore each situation leaves you a bit frustrated. The key to that frustration being that the raw style and direction, existing in the same settings as Trainspotting, have you emotionally invested and gripped.

Best film fae Edinburgh, ever!

Not 'Trainspotting' but Irvine Welsh's next movie attempt does invoke a similar since of comfortable uneasiness.

A good Adaption of a few Storys from the Book it will be cool if they adapt all Storys

Very average adaptation of the Irvine Welch book.

holy strange.... nothing more to be said next flick