MARIHUANA / NARCOTIC BLU-RAY

Kino Classics + Something Weird Present Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture Volume 4 - MARIHUANA and NARCOTIC!

Daring Drug Exposes! Shame Horror Despair! DWAIN ESPER was not only one of the most notorious figures of the exploitation genre (due to his ruthless business practices), he was also its greatest stylist. With an utter disregard for the laws of cinematic convention, his low-budget films verge on the avant-garde as they breathlessly wallow in every conceivable moral vice -- all in the name of public education, of course. MARIHUANA (1936) follows the downward trajectory of a bright high school girl (HARLEY WOOD) who dabbles in cannabis and becomes a hardened, heroin addicted criminal, who inadvertently kidnaps her own child (whom she had given up for adoption). Inspired by a true story NARCOTIC (1933) is the story of an idealistic physician (HARRY CORDING) whose personal journey leads him through opium dens, carnival tents, sex-crazed drug parties, skid-row brothels, and eventually the halls of madness! These two essential cult films are presented in definitive editions, meticulously restored from 35mm elements. Restored with the cooperation of the Library of Congress and UCLA Film & Television Archive.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Audio Commentary for Marihuana by Bret Wood, co-author of Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film
• Audio Commentary for Marihuana by David F. Friedman and Mike Vraney (2000)
• Audio Commentary for Narcotic by Bret Wood
• Original Theatrical Trailers
• Two versions of Dwain Esper's How to Undress (In Front of Your Husband) and How to Take a Bath
• Trailer and fragments of Dwain Esper's lost film The Seventh Commandment (1932)