This is a list of films featuring hallucinogens.
List of films
Film Description Hallucinogen featured Year Ref. 200 Motels "Vile foamy liquids" (The movie also has special effects that are "psychedelic", i.e. designed with hallucinogens in mind.) 1971 Altered States Believing that altered states of consciousness are just as real as "normal" consciousness, a professor of abnormal psychology combines a hallucinogenic mixture with sensory deprivation and begins to "regress" into progressively earlier stages of evolution. LSD, DMT, psilocybin 1980 Apocalypse Now LSD 1979 Artificial Paradises 2012 Awakening of the Beast 1970 Barb and Star Go to Vista Del MarBarb, Star, and Edgar take pills containing an unknown substance that causes them to hallucinate.2021 Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Beavis eats a peyote cactus in the desert, leading him to have hallucinations of being in a music video with his friend Butt-Head.Peyote 1996 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Following a psychedelic-fueled party at his house, Z-Man goes on a murderous rampage.Peyote 1970 Blue Sunshine LSD 1978 Blueberry Ayahuasca 2004 Brain Damage 1988 Climax A dance troupe's punch is spiked with LSD, causing those who drink it to respond with violence against themselves and others. LSD 2018 Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus Jamie, a footloose and self-absorbed young American, is traveling in Chile and is keen to experience the mysteries of a local hallucinogen — the mescaline-bearing San Pedro cactus.Mescaline (San Pedro cactus) 2013 Dirty Pictures A documentary about the psychedelic chemist Alexander Shulgin. Various 2010 LSD, Peyote 1991 Easy Rider LSD 1969 Embrace of the SerpentThe film tells two stories thirty years apart, both featuring Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his tribe. He travels with two scientists, firstly with German Theodor Koch-Grunberg in 1909 and American Richard Evans Schultes in 1940, to look for the rare yakruna, a (fictional) sacred plant.2015 Karamakate prolongs his life, blasting white powder called "the sun's semen", possibly 5-MeO-DMT (distinct from but very similar to normal DMT), collected in the form of resin from the Virola tree5-MeO-DMT or bufotenin 1985 Enter the Void DMT, LSD 2009 Fanboys The Chief rescues the titular characters from a gay biker bar, then serves his own special guacamole dip recipe while promising to fix a flat tire on their van, causing each of them to have their own "Star Wars"-related hallucinations. Peyote 2009 Fast X Han eats a "fun muffin" offered him by a tech guy, suddenly having some hallucinations. 2023 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas LSD, mescaline 1998 Psilocybin 2013 Friend of the World Once administered, the characters are unable to separate their hallucinations from reality.Fictional toxic cure or miracle drug2020 Friendship The protagonist licks a toad with psychedelic properties before hallucinating a trip to Subway, where he debates whether or not to toast his sandwich.Toad2024 Good TimeAfter a bank robbery gone wrong, protagonist Connie Nikas does everything in his power to bail out and rescue his mentally handicapped brother from police custody while evading capture himself. Connie ends up breaking out a different convict "Ray" that happened to be in the same hospital as his brother, but uses this to his advantage. Connie follows Ray to a 12 fl oz Sprite bottle filled with liquid LSD stashed in an amusement park ride, which he plans to sell in order to get his brother's bail money. Noise resulting from their search for the LSD bottle causes a park security guard to investigate the ride and call the police. A fight ensues which ends with the guard unconscious and Connie taking his clothes to assume the identity of a security guard. For good measure Connie pours a mouthful of LSD down the guards throat so upon waking up, he appeared incomprehensible and was assumed to be the trespasser whom the 911 call was made for. LSD2017HornsProtagonist Ig uses his supernatural powers to make Terry consume all the drugs he has at once.Multiple2013 Hot Rod LSD 2007 I Drink Your Blood LSD 1970 I Love You, Alice B. Toklas 1968 In the Name of the FatherProtagonist Gerry Conlon and his fellow prisoners get high by ingesting LSD off of jigsaw puzzle pieces soaked in LSD.LSD 1993 Mandy The Children of the New Dawn cult and the Black Skulls motorcycle gang consume high-potency LSD prepared by "The Chemist". LSD 2018The MatrixMescaline1999 Midnight Cowboy 1969 MidsommarPsilocybin2019 Naked Lunch Protagonist William Lee is an exterminator, and his wife persuades him to try injecting his insecticide powder, pyrethrum (fictional as a drug), which is a "literary high". To stop that addiction, he tries a black powder made from a giant aquatic Brazilian centipede. Later, he is given some of the "black meat" that's made into a jelly. Finally, he gains access to a creature called a mugwump and then uses "mugwump jism" that is dispensed from stalks on the creature's head. Pyrethrum or bug powder, black meat of the giant aquatic Brazilian centipede, mugwump jism. (All are fictional) 1991 Natural Born Killers Mickey and Mallory Knox eat magic mushrooms and get lost in the desert.Psilocybin 1994 Neighbours 1952 Nightbreed 1990 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood The climactic scene involves Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) smoking an acid-dipped cigarette.LSD 2019 Performance An ex-hitman (Chas) hides from his former boss by moving in with an ex-rock star (Turner) and his two girlfriends. Chas begins to leave behind his hypermasculinity, and under the influence of the hallucinogenic mushroom Amanita muscaria he admits that he is relieved to be out of the gangster lifestyle. He begins exploring his bisexuality and dressing in more feminine clothing, including a wig. 1970 LSD, STP 1970 DMT 2014 1967 Psych-Out STP 1968 A Scanner DarklyCharacters throughout the film use Substance D, a fictional drug that causes bizarre hallucinations.Substance D (fictional)2006 1988 Seven Psychopaths In this metacinema crime black comedy film, Marty Faranan is a struggling writer who dreams of finishing his screenplay, Seven Psychopaths. Marty's best friend, Billy (Rockwell), is an unemployed actor who makes a living by kidnapping dogs and collecting the owners' cash rewards for their safe return. His partner-in-crime, Hans Kieslowski – a religious man with a cancer-stricken wife - has a vision of his late wife telling him that there is no heaven and that she is just sitting in a completely grey room, which lets Hans doubt he believes in the afterlife. Peyote 2012 Shrooms On a vacation in Ireland, a group of American students gather and eat psilocybin mushrooms. One of the group members accidentally ingests the wrong mushroom, a deathcap. She has a seizure and visions of her friends being murdered. As the trip continues, the group becomes separated and are murdered, apparently by an insane monk out of a ghost story from the area.Psilocybin 2007 Skidoo 1968 SLC Punk!LSD1998StripesLSD1981 Taking Woodstock LSD 2009 Tenacious D in The Pick of DestinyPsilocybin2006 The Royal TenenbaumsEli Cash (Owen Wilson) regularly partakes in mescaline. Mescaline2001 LSD 1967 The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Javi and Nic Cage take LSD. LSD 2022 2002 Training DayPCP2001 Young Guns Billy the Kid and his gang ingest peyote in an attempt to consult with spirits regarding their present situation. Peyote 1988Young Sherlock HolmesA cult use a hallucinogenic drug to give their victims frightening visions and accidentally kill themselves when they panic.Fictional drug1985Dora and the Lost City of GoldDora and friends encounter hallucinogenic spores in the jungle that cause them to see animated versions of themselves.Jungle Flower Spores2019
See also List of drug films Stoner film List of psychedelic documentaries
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