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Movie Info

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll (Josef Forte) relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens. In his story, a drug supplier entices several restless teens, including sister and brother Mary (Dorothy Short) and Jimmy Lane (Warren McCollum) and Mary's boyfriend, Bill (Kenneth Craig), into frequenting a "reefer" house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives and leads to a terrible crime.

Rating:

PG
Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Louis J. Gasnier
Producer:

George A. Hirliman
Writer:

Paul Franklin, Arthur Hoerl, Lawrence Meade
Release Date (Streaming):

Sep 1, 2009
Runtime:

1h 7m
Production Co:

George A. Hirliman Productions

Cast & Crew

Dave O'Brien
Ralph Wiley

Dorothy Short
Mary Lane

Lillian Miles
Blanche

Warren McCollum
Jimmy Lane

Carleton Young
Jack Perry

Thelma White
Mae Colman

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Critic Reviews for Reefer Madness

All Critics (28) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (17)

Espers' 1936 film deserves its reputation as one of the most entertainingly bad movies ever made.

March 30, 2019 | Full Review…

Keith Phipps
AV Club
The original antimarijuana film (1936), offering the true inside story of the devil weed that drives men to savage lusts and women to unspeakable depravities, along with a little bit of dumb fun.

March 28, 2007 | Full Review…

Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
One of the most absurdly earnest exercises in paranoia you'll ever have the good fortune to see.

June 24, 2006 | Full Review…

John Du Cane
Time Out
Before it became an ironic cult hit in the 1970s, Reefer Madness was a well-intentioned and unintentionally hilarious cautionary tale entitled Tell Your Children...

March 17, 2020 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…

Sarah Boslaugh
TheArtsStl
Strictly an amateur-hour production, filled with laughably over-the-top acting and a silly sense of self-righteousness that make it the perfect exploitation camp classic.

February 22, 2020 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

Matthew Lucas
From the Front Row
This gloriously awful film is highly recommended to lovers of stunningly bad movies.

March 30, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Sky Staff
Sky Cinema
Perhaps the mother of all bad movies, however, the didactic film, unlike later stinkers, takes itself extremely seriously, seeing itself as an important instrument in the campaign against drugs. However, the film's ignorance is the audience's bliss.

March 30, 2019 | Full Review…

Film4 Staff
Film4
All the performers either overact laughably or underact to the point of just standing in place and speaking lines in a monotone.

March 28, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

TV Guide Staff
TV Guide
"Reefer Madness" is so outrageously over the top that it's tough to imagine it was taken seriously even in the 1930s.

January 21, 2007 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…

Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
The film is so idiotic that it almost demands being seen to confirm how bad it is.

February 28, 2006 | Rating: D | Full Review…

Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
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June 14, 2005 | Rating: 4/5

Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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February 18, 2005 | Rating: 3/5

Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette