- Actors: Stephen McCole, Maurice Roëves, Garry Sweeney, Jenny McCrindle, Simon Weir
- Directors: Paul McGuigan
- Writers: Irvine Welsh
- Producers: Alex Usborne, Carolynne Sinclair Kidd, Colin Pons, David Muir
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Cinema Club
- VHS Release Date: 19 Aug 2002
- Run Time: 111 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CYVV
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,862 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In The Acid House director Paul McGuigan adapts three Irvine Welsh short stories. These are set in an unflinchingly depicted world of grey, breeze block tenements, wiry psychos, short leather skirts, beer, fags and drugs, kinky sex in badly wallpapered lounges, random violence, hideous-looking babies, raves, footy, discarded crisp packets and barely intelligible dialogue featuring the occasional use of non-profanity.
"The Granton Star Clause" tells the unhappy tale of wee, pasty-faced Boab Doyle, who in one long, unhappy sequence loses his place in the football team, his girlfriend, his job and gets kicked out of the house by his parents, before an encounter with God (here, a hard-bitten, lager-quaffing Maurice Roeves) leads to a surreal, Kafka-esque conclusion. The second tale, "A Soft Touch", is gruellingly and well portrayed but pointlessly depressing. Kevin McKidd plays Johnny, a supermarket employee with an appalling slag-hag of a girlfriend who takes up with his new, violently psychotic and parasitical neighbour Larry. Will he stand up for himself? The answer will leave you thoroughly unsatisfied. Finally, there's "The Acid House", the funniest but silliest of the three tales in which Ewan Bremner plays an obnoxiously livewire Hibs fan who takes one too many tabs and ends up being transported into the mind of stereotypically middle-class couple's--Martin Clunes and Jemma Redgrave--baby.
The Acid House is compulsive but bleak, exhilarating but ambivalent. The viewer is asked to bring their own moral compass to these stylised yet non-judgemental episodes. Fans of Trainspotting, however, will certainly find much of the scintillating same here.
On the DVD: disappointingly, only the trailer is featured here. However, the DVD transfer in letterbox format is impeccable, used to its best advantage in the more surreal, fast-cut music video-style sequences, while the soundtrack, featuring The Verve and Primal Scream among others, also benefits. --David Stubbs
From the Back Cover
Combining his characteristic savage humour with hard-talking drama, Irvine Welsh has adapted three of his short stories - The Granton Star Cause, A Soft Touch, The Acid House - into one powerful, explicit and savagely funny film. The Acid House reaches into the hearts and minds of the 'chemical generation' and delves into the dark, hidden corners of the human psyche.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Acid house is a compilation of 3 short films. The first 2 are okay, worth watching once, but nothing more needs to be said about them. You need to own this just for the third short film, also titled "the acid house". It is hysterical. The softer ones among you may say its on the verge of being sick, but if you want something to put on when your mates come round so that you can laugh till it hurts, get this and chuck on the last short film. Just make sure there's a few of your mates round so you can fully appreciate how funny it is. You wont see the funny side if your easily offended by foul mouthed, talking scottish babies, but if your not, then its worth the money just for the one short film, it's that good. Genius
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
After Welsh's highly acclaimed novel trainspotting was released it was widely thought that this would be his finest literary work. However The Acid House smacks you right in the face with it's gritty, dangerous and somewhat blurry eyed view of the people we love to loathe. I believe this is on par with welsh's finest and shows a light into the often unseen lives of those unfortunates gripped by poverty and lack of self worth evident in todays modern society, although this sometimes is not shown to it's full potential in this video. My advice to other review readers would be, BUY THE BOOK!!!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This film contains three short stories each very different. the first story was ok funny in parts. The second was disturbing and not funny but the third was hilarious. Worth watching even if only for the last short story. Not like trainspotting.
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If you have a soul darker than the very fabric of the universe you...
I find this film hilarious.
The Acid House was unfairly judged as an inferior Trainspotting imitation upon its release. Read more
The Acid House was unfairly judged as an inferior Trainspotting imitation upon its release. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Inspector Gadget
Review of the "Acid House"
Great movie: loved it when it came out, and enjoyed watching it again. It's raunchy, creative, and a whole lot of fun, with a bit of social commentary thrown in about the social... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Laura L. Ackerman
The Acid House Stories
The Most Vile and Outrageous Movie that ever crossed from Scotland into the rest of the civilised world. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mr David M. Cox
Acid, acrid?
Trainspotting remains my favourite film. Period.
I was under no illusion that this three-shorts set was similar, or even related to Danny Boyle's masterpiece. Read more
I was under no illusion that this three-shorts set was similar, or even related to Danny Boyle's masterpiece. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Tim Kidner
Uneven Middle Bookended With Laughs
Three episodes from three stories from the book of the same name. No spoilers here.
The first story is my favourite. Glaswegian Kafka! Read more
The first story is my favourite. Glaswegian Kafka! Read more
Published on 17 April 2009 by Godzilla The Hun
It Sure Didn't Seem Like A Sequel For Trainspotting
Acid House is not for the faint hearted, it is graphic in so many different ways. I found the idea of three short stories intriguing although I presumed there would be some... Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2008 by Claire Frances
Mad but also very funny !
Three very different short stories! Not a sequel to trainspotting, as has already been mentioned, but worth watching if you are a fan of that type of hard hitting shocking flim. Read more
Published on 19 Aug 2005 by Ms. Rebecca Fearon
good in parts
I bought this DVD in a second hand shop having read the book and my expectations were high. Having watched it, the same goes as with many other book turned films, it just didn't... Read more
Published on 2 May 2005
Granton Star Rules!
I hadn't read the Irvine Welsh book from which this movie is based. A friend of mine though said that he thought 'The Granton Star Cause' was one of the best short stories he ever... Read more
Published on 17 Feb 2005 by R Jess
No Sequel to Trainspotting
I have purchased the DVD of this movie today after watching it over 12 months ago. If you are looking for a sequel to Trainspotting... forget it! Read more
Published on 14 May 2003
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