Synopsis
A surreal triptych adapted by "Trainspotting" author Irvine Welsh from his acclaimed collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, the film reaches into the hearts and minds of the chemical generation, casting a dark and unholy light into the hidden corners of the human psyche.
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Cast
- Ewen BremnerCoco Brice
- Kevin McKiddJohnny
- Stephen McColeBoab
- Jemma RedgraveJenny
- Martin ClunesRory
- Maurice RoëvesGod
- Arlene CockburnKirsty
- Michelle GomezCatriona
- Gary McCormackLarry
- Jenny McCrindleEvelyn
Recommendations
- 75
San Francisco Chronicle
A blast of manic energy in the form of a film. - 70
The A.V. Club
The Acid House comes across as a shadow of "Trainspotting," albeit a vibrant, noisy, frantic shadow. - 70
Variety
The Acid House makes "Trainspotting" look like a mild-mannered youth comedy. - 70
Los Angeles Times
A virulent but thoroughly entertaining trilogy of tales about the besieged lower classes of Edinburgh, ripe with vulgarity, self-loathing, violence and economic disorder. - 63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
There are flashes of excitement in this film, mostly from the verbal play and sulphurous humour of Welsh's perspective, but there's a lot that makes you wonder why you're sitting through it. - 60
The New York Times
With a cackling nihilistic glee, the movie rubs our faces in the stinking, screaming muck of raw human appetite and insists that that's all there is. - 60
Village Voice
There's so little leavening humor here, and so much physical and emotional violence visited upon the already abject, that the film seems as pointless as the wasted lives it purports to examine. - 58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's not the direction that feels flaccid in this film. Surprisingly, it's the stories themselves, which provide a bit of a giggle but little else.
