The Acid House

THE ACID HOUSE is a surreal triptych adapted by TRAINSPOTTING author Irvine Welsh from his own collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, THE ACID HOUSE plunges the viewer into increasingly bizarre situations: hapless Boab Coyle has a chance encounter with a vengeful God; soft-centered Johnny is forced to contend with a psychotic neighbor and a wayward wife; and "Top Boy" Coco Bryce takes an acid trip that literally takes him back to the womb. Starring Ewen Bremner (Julien Donkey-Boy, BLACK HAWK DOWN), Kevin McKidd (TRAINSPOTTING) and Stephen McCole (RUSHMORE) THE ACID HOUSE reaches into the hearts and minds of the "chemical generation" and casts a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche. more

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From: Amazon
Posted: Jan-21-2007

Instant Review: Great, Brilliant, Oh God make it stop.

A collection of three films strung together with wildly different results. The first film (The Granton Star Cause 8/10) is a pleasant surprise and high comedy. It is a take on Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis mixed with God, elderly S and M, and a football team. Outrageous and funny it is great black...

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Posted: Sep-09-2005

Amusing but definetly offbeat.

I heard about this movie a few years ago from a friend. What mainly interested me was that it was based on a novel by Irvine Welsh who also wrote Trainspotting. I loved the movie Trainspotting and so i decided to watch this, hoping it would be similar. It's really not. The film has its...

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Posted: Mar-23-2005

better left in print

This film was a very bizarre characterization of the Irvine Welsh collection of stories of the same name. While Trainspotting was a spot-on adaptation of a similar kind of book (random stories and characters) and excellent on-screen, The Acid House is better left for the printed page, although...

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Posted: Nov-30-2004

Spellbound

Well, It just so happened that i only "stumbled" upon this film. It was on Foxtel recently and i flicked over, and it was already about halfway thru, but once i watched only even a minute of it, i could not bring myself to turn it off or change channels. I have seen Trainspotting and that is not...

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Posted: Oct-07-2004

Rough around the edges...

As I review more and more films they are slowly becoming more and more difficult to review. Why? There are just some films out there that are this solid mix of great and average that it is difficult to give a definitive answer. Did I like it or didn't I? The lines are getting more and more...

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Posted: Jun-14-2003

Granton Star Rules!

I hadn't read the Irvine Welsh book from which this movie is based. A friend of mine though said that he thought 'The Granton Star Cause' was one of the best short stories he ever read and of the 3 stories within this film it certainly works the best. I first saw the film in North America and if...

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Posted: May-24-2002

= - A_c_i_D - =

This movie is excellent. I suggest you read the book before you see the movie though, otherwise you'll really not know what the hell is going on because its very difficult to understand what thoes goddamn people are trying to say even though it has subtitles. This movie take three main stories...

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Posted: Nov-30-2001

I LOVED THIS FILM!!!

"the acid house", reunites 3 different stories written by irvine welsh...(writter of "trainspotting" , and co-writter of "dockers")...about misfortune,football,drugs,god,neighbors and of course,coco!these hilarious shorts are really bizzare!...the title says it all! it's very "acid".the first...

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Posted: Aug-24-2001

WELSH DELIVERS AGAIN

Well, ladies and gents. If you are a fan of Scottish cinema or Irvine Welsh or just strange indie flicks you should take a flight on the Acid House airlines. 3 sorted stories to make your skin crawl. The Acid House delivers yet another one of Welsh's great books. Nice, romatic, sweet people...

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Posted: Jul-30-2001

Worst movie I have EVER, EVER seen

There is no way that anybody should see this movie. This is the most vulgar, unfunny piece of xxxx ever. The storytelling is hysterically bad, the acting is terrible. The only thing they do is try and shock you with vulgarity. I loved Trainspotting, but absolutely hated this one.

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