The Acid House

As the title of this review says is what I felt when I first watched this film. Even now after seeing this film a few more times the initial reaction is the same but a good wtf.... Full review

The Acid House: 8/10: 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,... Full review

I'll have to say that i personally love this movie. All three stories are gritty and realistic, but not overly stylised, and this gives the film the feeling of the earlier trainspotting but thankfully with less of the 'cool factor'. Although... Full review

Here's 3 twisted tales by the guy that wrote "Trainspotting" and it comes complete with subtitles because thanks to the thick accents you can barely make out what the actors are saying, although technically it IS English. In the first... Full review

First I see a kid calling this movie a trilogy. Then someone else is saying that it was disgusting. Then someone else even more funny is saying about it not being train-spotting. Holly molly, are there only kids posting here... Full review

After I saw Trainspotting I got my hands on a few Irvine Welsh books, one was the Acid House. I really liked the book and the stories were weried and I liked that. I was excited to see the movie evcen... Full review

The Acid House: 8/10: 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... Full review

I don't give a rat's a$$ whether the social commentary is accurate or not or what this film's "artistic sensibilities" are supposed to be. This movie is a riot. It's romp through the ugliest, most politically incorrect depths of everyone's... Full review

Acid House written by Irvine Welsh(the best modern writer)is a brilliant "short stories" novel.The movie however is pretty disappointing.I expected it to be somewhat like Trainspotting,the classic Welsh adaptation and one of the best movies ever made.The stories are not... Full review

I watch a lot of extreme cinema and am always wary of fakery and sensationalism, but I felt that The Acid House had the intelligence and heart needed to back up its shocking stories. It is like a cross between... Full review

A forgettable film for anyone other than the most die-hard of Irvine Welsh fans. Picture and audio quality were a bit sub-par, as was the uninspired commentary track by author and screenwriter Irvine Welsh. ... Full Review

The Acid House" is also a film created under dubious circumstances. In fact, the film's most clever move - at least for its U.S. debut - was adding subtitles, since much of the dialogue is spoken in accents so thick it sounds like a foreign language. ... Full Review

The Acid House" is also a film created under dubious circumstances. In fact, the film's most clever move - at least for its U.S. debut - was adding subtitles, since much of the dialogue is spoken in accents so thick it sounds like a foreign language. ... Full Review

the film is mercifully subtitled in English.....Inspired Nastiness In Manic `Acid House'....a surreal, push-the-envelope frenzy that mixes satire, grim psychological drama and cartoon overstatement.....sweaty, insanely energetic sex scenes....he's simulating the woozy hallucinations of an acid trip, showing Boab's transformation into a bug.... ... Full Review

The Acid House" is easily the funniest of the three stories, probably the sickest and, despite what they write in certain magazine articles, the wisest career choice in the bunch. The most recent result of this "maverick" move by author-screenwriter Welsh is "The Acid House," a virulent but thoroughly entertaining trilogy of tales about the besieged lower classes of Edinburgh, ripe with vulgarity, self-loathing, violence and economic disorder. ... Full Review

SYNOPSIS: The Acid House is a collection of three short stories. 'The Granton Star Cause,' covers a very, very bad day in the life of Boab Coyle (Stephen McCole); 'A Soft Touch' revolves around Johnny (Kevin McKidd), who marries the... ... Full Article

Call me crazy, but I think Irvine Welsh is a mysoginist.These three short stories are great as stories but there is so much vigorous, almost violent sex, especially in the middle story, that it becomes extremely difficult to watch. ... Full Article

SYNOPSIS: The Acid House is a collection of three short stories. The Granton Star Cause, covers a very, very bad day in the life of Boab Coyle (Stephen McCole); A Soft Touch revolves around Johnny (Kevin McKidd), who marries the... ... Full Article

Why do we subject ourselves to these tales of urban decay, human desperation, petty heartbreak and the small, dirty tragedy that is life on this Earth? ... Full Article

Irvine Welsh vaulted to cultural stardom with the novel, "Trainspotting".Oh, some guys made a movie of it that wasn't too bad, either. For his second shot at celluloid, Welsh decided to adapt three short stories from his collection, "The... ... Full Article

"Filth," and three of the tales in "The Acid House," his 1994 collection of Scotland-bound short stories, have been made into a new movie - one caked in lurid, hallucinogenic, ecstatically burned-out filth that Welsh adapted himself. He said he ... Full Article