 | Curious Alice is a genuine what-where-they-thinking PSA from 1971. Created by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, it's just about the most tripped-out 12 minutes you'll ever see. Rather than turn you off drugs, it would send you running to your nearest dealer to get loaded, so you could watch it all again. Although aimed at kids, it has become cult viewing among stoners. |
As if Alice In Wonderland wasn't a subliminally drug soaked kids story already, the makers of this little beauty brought the drugs front and centre. As Alice "drinks" the potion and enters Wonderland, we encounter all the characters we are familiar with. Only this time, rather than the nudge-nudge wink-wink drug references we are generally used to in some retellings of the story, they slap us in the face with a cool psychedelic trip of an animation. There is no way, that the animators weren't sniggering themselves stupid in a stoner haze when they handed this beauty over to the US government.
| The characters Alice encounters are just precious. Of course we have the pot smoking Caterpillar, jeez even the Disney version has that cool dude drawing on his bong! But here we also have the heroin pushing King of Hearts, waving a giant loaded syringe around. And that's all before Alice gets to the "tea party", where we meet the tweaking speed freak, the Mad March Hare, the downer Dormouse and the acid-head Mad Hatter. |  |
 | Top Ten: Weird Alice In Wonderland Movies - From the early days of silent cinema, via musical porn and surrealist European cinema to Japanese anime. We certainly ain't talking Disney here. Alice In Wonderland At Weeki Wachee 1964 - The bizarre underwater ballet theme park in Florida, that was one of the top tourist attractions in the United States in the 1950s. |
