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Bad Trips List...
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10. Las Vegas, Nevada (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Bloody dinosaur rape orgies don't manifest in the imagination of a tripped-out mind in just any old setting. |
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9. Van Cortlandt Park, New York (The Warriors)
It's a long, bad trip home when every gang in New York City wants you drawn and quartered by subways. |
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8. LV-246 (Aliens)
Dad just scored an amazing new terraforming engineering job on a remote, inhospitable galactic planet... sounds great and the long trip comes with a free tongue-punched skull upon arrival... courtesy a wild pack of ravenous xenomorphs. |
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7. Paris, France (Soleil O)
Between a rock and a hard place, Paris is the land of closed off opportunities and marginalized existence for its sub-Saharan residents... while 'home' has its own set of unique problems. The raw deal of colonialism is fully exposed in one of its imperial capitals. This trip is a vicious circle with no exit signs marked. |
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6. Turkish Prison (Midnight Express)
A two-week trip to Turkey sounds nice and relaxing... but when busted at the airport with drugs strapped to your chest, get ready for a 30 year sentence in a not-so luxurious Turkish prison. Amenities include, cold hard beds, piss buckets and complimentary torture sessions. |
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5. The Past (12 Monkeys)
Wouldn't visiting the past be exciting? Fix all those mistakes. Vanquish all regret. What a trip it would be. Maybe not so much when you are dissociating consciously and being admitted to mental institutions for perceived irrational, violent behaviour. |
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4. 12 Feet to the Right (The Fly)
Between the distance of your couch and fridge exist a trip which potentially renders you into a rapidly decaying hideous freak of epic proportions. |
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3. The Jungles of Vietnam (Jacob's Ladder)
This trip was never good, but tack on some experimental drug-induced morbid and violent hallucinatory after-effects and you've got a real fucked-up party. |
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2. A Cave in Mexico (Altered States)
In a quest to regress to the evolutionary constituent parts of your consciousness, don't forget to take a trip to Mexico where you will enjoy freaking out on blood-and-mushroom soup in ancient Toltec rituals. |
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1. Civil War Haiti (Serpent and the Rainbow)
If you are interested in proving that zombies aren't supernatural and if you intend on exploiting ritualistic potions on behalf of Big Pharma, well then I have the trip for you - Haiti. With a corrupt police chief at the helm, Port-au-Prince never seemed so charming. Amenities include being buried alive, being attacked by venomous snakes and having your scrotum pierced by hammer and nail. |
