Reefer Madness 2 (1993)
Director: Huxtable/Brown/Dixon
Cast: Dean McWhinney, Willie Huxtable, Cody Brown, Keith Dixon
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG-13
Synopsis: A straight "A" student finds that his grades are starting to slip. Under pressure from his overbearing mother, he does not know where to turn. Befriended by the local stoners, they turn him on to the pleasures of marijuana. In a weed induced rage he lashes out and kills his mother. Later when the drug has run its course he comes down from his high and realises what he has done. With nothing more to lose, he returns to exact his revenge on the stoners.
"Reefer Madness 2" was film 55 years in the making. The original "Reefer Madness" is a cult film from 1938. Produced in part with FBI, it is a propaganda film aimed at scaring teenagers away from the dangers of marijuana use. It depicts anyone who uses the drug is turned into a crazed, homicidal maniac who loves to dance. Now, "Reefer Madness 2" is not just a sequel, but a more contemporary telling of the story. It contains all the original elements from the first movie, teenagers, marijuana, and a homicidal maniac. Where as most sequels cannot live up to their predecessors, "Reefer Madness 2" exceeds the original film by leaps and bounds.
Reefer Madness 2: An sample chapter from Will Huxtable's upcoming biography, "My Crapola Pictures and Smack Years".
"I can remember it like it was yesterday. The first day on the set, which was my high school. Ironically we all came up with the idea of a movie, in writing class. The three of us worked on the script, and in a few we were ready to film. It was to be a story about the bad things drugs do to you. Boy, I wish I would have listened more to my own movie. I played the leader of the reefer club, and I recruited a new member...at least tried to. He ended up smokin' the reefer my character hid in his beer. He went crazy, shot up his mom, and then came back in a rage and shot all of us in the reefer club. I never watched any John Woo films in high school, if I did...the shoot out would have been longer, that's for sure. But as it was, I found it to be an excellent first production for the yet unnamed film production company.
Keith showed an early sign of what would become as his "strong , silent type" character, and Cody looked like a nut-job in his cool wig. Looking back, that movie has everything...funny lines, serious lines, action, and drama. It was also the first movie we did that required a lot of editing, as we added shots(ripped them off) from another film for an action sequence involving a car. The only other movie we edited that much was "Psycho Killer Hermit Guy". But that is another chapter. After filming, we were all hooked on making movies. We decided to enter the realm of horror with our next production titled "Marionette Massacre". I was to become a turning point in my life........"
