Blu-ray Review – Drug-O-Rama Video Party

“Drug-O-Rama Video Party” is an offering from the American Genre Film Archive, who seek to preserve the work of Something Weird Video and the company’s quest to find and preserve the strangest offerings of cinema around. For this release, the focus is on “drug-and-sex-crazed” releases from the 1960s, when counterculture pursuits began to take national attention, bringing fear and disgust to the establishment. Included here are “The Hard Road,” “Alice in Acidland,” “Help Wanted Female,” and “Hedonistic Pleasures,” and while the title of the collection emphasizes mind-bending chemical adventures, focus actually favors carnal experiences, finding sexploitation dominating the viewing experience, which isn’t nearly as bizarre as tales of addiction and dangerous experimentation, viewed through a conservative lens. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com