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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)
Well 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 in exploiting ritualistic potions for Western pharmaceutical corporations, 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. Sign me up! |
This is a list which could definitely be expanded. So keep an eye open for Part 2 in the near future.
