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 ADDICTED
- THE MYTH AND MENACE OF DRUGS IN FILM
Editor: Jack Stevenson
Creation Books
ISBN 1-84068-023-7
Addicted is the latest addition to Creation's ever-evolving series
of film books. Jack Stevenson has edited and written most of Addicted
and it has his trademark all over it. Stevenson guides us through the
various stages of drug movies, from the early silent era of Opium Joint,
through the all out weirdness of the late sixties to the coke-and-gun
obsessed eighties, and it is extremely well researched and entertaining
reading.
As long as we get Jack Stevenson to guide us through this trip everything
is fine, but for the two closing parts - focusing on different countries'
drug film production - Stevenson has invited in a bunch of other writers,
some good and some not that engaging. Their many different approaches
shift the focus of Addicted so that it becomes diverse, unfortunately
in a negative sense. Basically, some contributions are just too academic
compared to the rest of the book. But Jack Stevenson's parts make up for
this, so, all in all, Addicted remains a compelling study of a
genre that I didn't realise was so exciting, and of course a must-have
for all lovers of strange and twisted cinema.
JONAS KELLAGHER - 29 August 2000
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