Acid House (1998)
- Original title
- The Acid House
- Directed by
- Paul McGuigan
- Genre
- fantasy film, comedy drama
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 136 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Three separate stories set in Edinburgh follow characters dealing with bizarre and often disturbing situations. A drunken wedding guest has a strange encounter, a man dreams of a grotesque figure, and a pub patron faces the consequences of his actions.
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What happens
The Acid House is a 1998 British film adaptation of Irvine Welsh's short story collection The Acid House directed by Paul McGuigan. Welsh himself wrote the screenplay and appears as a minor character in the film. All three sections are independent, but are linked by the setting of Edinburgh and the reappearance of incidental characters, in particular Maurice Roëves, who appears variously as an inebriated wedding guest, a figure in a dream, and a pub patron. All three of his parts symbolise a human manifestation of God. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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