Reefer Madness (1936)

Name: Reefer Madness (1936)
Uploaded: 2026-09-01
Duration: 1 h 8 min
Description: A high-school lecture frames the tale: clean-cut teenagers try marijuana once and spiral straight into hit-and-run, manslaughter, madness and a fall from a window. Made as a church cautionary film, recut by an exploitation distributor, and rediscovered decades later as unintentional comedy.

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1936 · 1h 8m · Drama

Directed by Louis J. Gasnier

public domain

US public domain — the film was distributed without a valid copyright notice and never renewed.

A high-school lecture frames the tale: clean-cut teenagers try marijuana once and spiral straight into hit-and-run, manslaughter, madness and a fall from a window. Made as a church cautionary film, recut by an exploitation distributor, and rediscovered decades later as unintentional comedy.

Scare film to campus midnight movie in one generation. The hysteria is the joke; the film plays it with a completely straight face.

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