Of the many constants running through the Something Weird catalog over the decades, be it Christian scare films or twisted sex, one constant you can find across the board is drug use. Be it educational shorts meant for high schoolers or sexed-up tales of chemical-fueled tragedy, the library is jammed with cautionary but sordid tales of heedless Americans from all walks of life being based by anything they can smoke, snort, or shoot up. Four of those are collected in the 2025 team-up Blu-ray from AGFA and Something Weird, Drug-o-Rama Video Party, which can be played as one mind-damaging 277-minute experience or with each film separately and its 16 minutes of movie theater snipes and trailers viewable separately. Three of the four titles appeared as retail DVD releases back in the first half of the '00s from Image Entertainment's Something Weird line, though as with several of the AGFA multi-film discs, in this case they're taken from the older S-VHS masters complete with watermarks.

First up is the earliest and least druggy of the bunch, Help Wanted Female, essentially a sexy crime thriller with a narcotic complication in its plot. That's all good though since this is one of the earlier films from John Hayes (under the name "Harold Perkins") who went way above and beyond with memorable drive-in fare like Grave of the Vampire, The Cut-throats, Dream No Evil, Sweet Trash, and The Hangup. Here he delivers a fun, nasty little roughie about switch-hitting roomies Jo-Jo (Winn), who robs businessman while seducing them, and Luana (Olsen), who works as a mobile stripper around town. However, a visit to one regular (Hayes regular Vorno) gets very dark when he drops acid and reveals the truth about his murderous, kinky marriage. Full of that queasy atmosphere you can only find in black-and-white sexploitation around this time, Help Wanted Female is a great way to kick things off and has been something of a covert favorite among SWV fanatics with very good reason. Initially released theatrically by regular Hayes distributor Clover Films, the movie appeared on VHS from Something Weird in the '90s and debuted on DVD in 2003 as a triple feature (with Aroused! and Rent-a-Girl), with skimpier extras than usual (due to disc space) consisting of an Aroused! trailer, a Lesson of the Strap short, and the usual Sick Sixties Stills gallery. The AGFA presentation comes from the master used for the VHS, with the aforementioned watermark and tighter framing.

Released the following year, the pseudo-mondo sexploitation doc Hedonistic Pleasures is the only one in the set to never hit retail DVD (remaining instead confined to SWV VHS and DVD-R). Directed by Ed De Priest (One Million AC/DC and a lot of bad '90s hardcore), it's a plotless snapshot of the counterculture in Hollywood where everyone likes to get high, get naked, go skinnydipping, and dance around in colorful lighting. As usual for this kind of thing, most of the fun comes in the florid narration and the chance to spot familiar faces, in this case Pat Barrington (Orgy of the Dead, Agony of Love) who gets a fair amount of screen time credited as "Camille Grant."

Probably the most familiar film in the set thanks to its catchy title, Alice in Acidland brings us firmly into scare film territory as a psychiatrist (voiced by director Donn Greer) narrates the sad story of young Alice Trent (Jackson), a junior college student who falls in with another woman named Frieda Hamilton (Blackburn) thanks to her friend Kathy (Kelly). Alice's father, a recent widower, is ill-equipped to handle Alice's falling in with the "in-group" who have LSD and sex parties at a swanky house in the hills. Faster than you can say Eugenie, Alice is turned into a sexual plaything for men and women alike before she finally goes on a bad, soul-destroying trip (just in time for the monochrome film to switch to color) that subjects her to... boobs. Lots and lots of boobs. The psychedelic music and bargain basement trippy visuals at the end are a fun way to wrap things up, and at a swift 53 minutes, it gets the job done. For its retail DVD edition in 2004 after a VHS release, Alice in Acidland was paired up with Smoke and Flesh, with extras including the shorts Aphrodisiac! The Sexual Secret of Marijuana (condensed to 41 minutes) and LSD: The Trip to Where? plus a gallery of underground sexploitation movie magazine covers. All of the current transfers are taken from a well-worn print with some amusing jump cuts in the narration that will have you scratching your head, which somehow seems appropriate.

Finally we get to the only film in the set to get a bona fide MPAA rating ("R" in this case), 1970's The Hard Road, directed by none other than Gary Graver, the only cinematographer-director to work with Orson Welles and make lots of XXX movies (though most importantly, he gave us Trick or Treats). Here we get another downward spiral, this time focused around Valley high schooler Pam (Nelson, Graver's then-wife) who gets pregnant and has to give the baby away for adoption. Feeling too ashamed to go back to school, she gets a desk job and falls in with a rock group crowd who use her up and leave her wallowing with junkie Jimmy (insanely prolific exploitation actor Alderman) and his prostitute girlfriend, Jeannie (Howard). Of course, it all makes sense given that Pam's lush mom is played by Liz Renay (Desperate Living). As usual you get some educational narration, though in this case it isn't so much about moralistic hectoring as raising questions about how to deal with addiction, venereal disease, and incarceration. However, given that this was directed, shot, and edited by Graver, the whole thing looks a bit better than the norm with a very noir-style final stretch that carries a strong spooky vibe. And bringing things full circle, this was produced by our old buddy Ed De Priest. The Hard Road first appeared on DVD in 2003 paired up with Damaged Goods, featuring bonus trailers (both main features plus Teenage Mother, Slightly Damaged, Teenage Sex Report, The Runaway, and Teenage Tramp), two bonus shorts (The Innocent Party and VD!), and two galleries of roadshow art and pitch books. Again the master here comes from the earlier one used for Something Weird's VHS, with much tighter framing. The intermission breaks here are quite fun as expected, delivering that aforementioned 16 minutes of retro goodness (either broken up in the marathon or as one whole) featuring trailers for The Acid Eaters, The Hippie Revolt, Have You Ever Been on a Trip?, and Smoke and Flesh. You also get a promo gallery and an insert booklet with another essential, entertaining essay by Something Weird's Lisa Petrucci about the history behind these films, their acquisition into the library, and the role of drug films in popular culture in the '60s and '70s.