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The Saw franchise actually has a whole page for “Drug Addicts”: https://sawfilms.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Drug_Addicts. There are 24 total including the video games. Yes, there are Saw video games. No, I do not recommend you play them. I’ll probably put off Saw for a while because I’m not too entertained by gore for its own sake.
“The doors to the pleasure of Heaven or Hell. I didn’t care which… I thought I’d gone to the limits. I hadn’t. The Cenobites gave me an experience beyond limits… pain and pleasure, indivisible.” The original Hellraiser movie is comfortably a contender for one of my favorite movies of all time. The sequels have been not as good, to say the least, including at least one movie clearly made just…
This movie isn’t about addiction or even an elaborate allegory that can be compared to addiction, but there’s one scene specifically in this movie that I like as just a very succinct story about self-sabotage while intoxicated that stands alone. Emmett explains how he lived his whole life in a 40 mile radius, and how he sabotages his own literal ticket out of the small town without prospects of…
Disclaimer: I love surrealism, which isn’t surreal at all. There’s nothing that tickles my interest like characters spiraling into insanity until we get a break from reality to parse through and interpret. So a 19th-century lighthouse ghost story casting Willem Dafoe as an old sea captain on a bender with the glittery vampire boy from Twilight? I’m locked in, chief. I went into The Lighthouse…
I first watched Uncut Gems years ago and remember it being one of the most enjoyable yet stressful movies I’d ever seen, which is the last thing I’d expected from an Adam Sandler movie. It starts off chaotic and tense, and each scene only compounds it. I mean, it starts with a mining accident to a crew of Ethiopian Jew, a zoom-in through multicolored black opals, a zoom-out from Adam Sandler’s…
Reefer Madness, originally titled Tell Your Children, is a hilariously outdated PSA about the dangers of marijuana. In fact, it’s somewhat of a cult hit as a stoner movie itself. The original release reflects the drug hysteria of a post-Prohibition America in which the public had tired of big institutional interventions into the problems of addiction and instead sought to foster a local culture…
You get up two and a half million, any asshole in the world knows what to do. You get a house with a twenty-five year roof, an indestructable Jap economy shitbox, and you put the rest into the system at three to five percent to pay your taxes, and that’s your base, get me, that’s your Fortress of Fuckin’ Solitude, and you are for the rest of your life at a level of “fuck you”. Someone wants you…
Well, there’s my excuse. I’m late because my tits caught on fire. I have a soft spot for movies that were made in the same year as me. Is 28 Days an enjoyable movie? I would say yes. Is it a good depiction of addiction? I would say meh. It’s the type of movie you might watch in rehab so that you can poke fun at how it differs from reality while being similar enough to merit the comparison in the…
“Nat, are you ever scared when you wake up? So scared, the sweat starts out of you, huh? No, not you. With you, it’s simple. The alarm clock goes off, you open your eyes, brush your teeth, and ready the Daily Mirror. That’s all. You ever lie in your bed, looking at the window? A little daylight’s coming through, and you start to wonder. Is it getting lighter? Is it getting darker? Is it dawn or…
“Misery has a way of clarifying one’s convictions.”
“Once upon a time, I was a disease just waiting to happen. I found a ringmaster with a magic needle. And I bowed before that needle. When I got low enough, I made a God out of it. The Devil’s only an idea, Bob, an excuse for evil, just as your God is an excuse for good. They’re concepts. They’re the needles just waiting for people like you and me to stick ‘em in.” “That’s real deep. I mean, wow.…
Fundamentally, this movie is about enabling. Kate enables her daughter’s addiction, Richard enables his ex-wife’s failing business, and Les enables her best friend’s emotional decision-making. Richard chastises Kate for giving money to Claire despite her obvious motive to keep using drugs, yet Richard is indirectly financing Claire by writing thousands of dollars to Kate when unexpected costs hit…
A Star Is Born has been remade three times in 1954, 1976, and 2018, the latest of which is still in the memory of contemporary pop culture as a musical. The original was not a musical though, and instead was centrally inspired on a 1932 film called What Price Hollywood? that also featured a mentor in the show business industry whose decline from alcoholism coincides with a contrasting success…
Spiritual possession is a way for us to try and model behaviors that seem too far out of the ordinary for us to understand. If someone presents with symptoms of schizophrenia and hears voices, without a neurobiological explanation, we might conclude that they’re attuned to a different space of consciousness than the rest of us where other beings exist. Dreams can be interpreted as visions,…
Disclaimer: I’m not a sports guy. I can occasionally watch basketball (Go Kings), I can play Madden (Go Lions), I can binge hockey fight compilations (Go Canada), and I can get hyped about competitive Melee (Fox, Final Destination). But I just can’t get into sports the way most people can, and that means sports movies tend to bore me as well. The genre has all the formulaic trappings of the…