List of films featuring hallucinogens

This is a list of films featuring hallucinogens.

List of films

Film	Description	Hallucinogen featured	Year	Ref.
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	[1]
Apocalypse Now		LSD	1979	[2]
Artificial Paradises			2012
Awakening of the Beast			1970	[3]
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America		Peyote	1996	[4]
Blue Sunshine		LSD	1978
Blueberry		Ayahuasca	2004	[5]
Brain Damage			1988	[6]
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	[7]
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	[8]
The Doors		LSD, Peyote	1991	[9]
Dredd	In this science fiction action film, the future United States is a dystopic irradiated wasteland known as the Cursed Earth. On the East Coast lies Mega-City One, a violent metropolis with 800 million residents and 17,000 crimes reported daily. The only force for order are the Judges, who act as judge, jury and executioner. Judge Dredd is tasked by the Chief Judge with evaluating new recruit Cassandra Anderson, a powerful psychic who failed the aptitude tests to be a Judge. Dredd and Anderson raid Peach Trees, a 200-storey slum tower block a drug lord selling Slo-Mo, an addictive new drug which reduces the user's perception of time to 1% of normal.	(fictional) Slo-Mo	2012
Easy Rider		LSD	1969	[10]
Embrace of the Serpent	The 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
The Emerald Forest	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 tree[5]	5-MeO-DMT or 5-HO DMT (bufotenine) [11]	1985	[1]
Enter the Void		DMT, LSD	2009	[12]
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas		LSD, mescaline	1998	[1]
A Field in England			2013	[13]
Hot Rod		Lysergic acid diethylamide	2007	[3]
I Drink Your Blood		LSD	1970
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas			1968	[10]
In the Name of the Father			1993	[9]
Jacob's Ladder			1990	[9]
Mandy	The Children of the New Dawn cult and the Black Skulls motorcycle gang consume high-potency LSD prepared by "The Chemist".	LSD	2018	[14]
The Matrix		Mescaline	1999	[15]
Midnight Cowboy			1969	[9]
Naked Lunch			1991	[9]
Natural Born Killers	Mickey and Mallory Knox eat magic mushrooms and get lost in the desert.	Psilocybin	1994	[9]
Nightbreed			1990	[16]
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood	The climactic scene involves Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) smoking an acid-dipped cigarette.	LSD	2019	[9]
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	[9]
The People Next Door			1970	[9]
The Possession of Michael King		DMT	2014
The President's Analyst			1967	[9]
Psych-Out		STP	1968	[9]
A Scanner Darkly	Characters throughout the film use Substance D, a fictional drug that causes bizarre hallucinations.	Substance D (fictional)	2006
The Serpent and the Rainbow			1988	[17]
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	[18][19]
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.		2007	[20]
Skidoo			1968	[10]
Taking Woodstock		LSD	2009
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny		Psilocybin	2006
The Tingler			1959	[9]
Training Day			2001
The Trip		LSD	1967	[10]
The White Sound			2002	[9]
Young Guns	Billy the Kid and his gang ingest peyote in an attempt to consult with spirits regarding their present situation.	Peyote	1988
200 Motels	"Vile foamy liquids" (The movie also has special effects that are "psychedelic", i.e. designed with hallucinogens in mind.)		1971

See also

• List of drug films

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