This is full-blown Irvine Welsh on celluloid. Crass, vulgar, over the top. The three stories here are all unique and while far from perfect it's entertaining enough. Fantastic soundtrack as well.

One of the most f##ked up films ive seen lol it's 3 stories yeah deffo worth a watch if you wanna scramble ya brain up a bit 🤪🤯

I think you need to be on drugs to understand what the film is all about.f--king stupid storyline about a man that turns in to a fly.I thought it was going to be about the Scottish 90s raves but I just got some fly eating pooh so I turned it off after 30 mins. Awful.

Post-trainspotting adaption of the Irvine Welsh book of the same name - 10 for effort, 2 for execution - book is much better

This is so crazy &out there you actually have to be on acid to probably enjoy/ understand this huge mess. A massive Z movie in my opinion.

Between The Acid House & Trainspotting, I can only conclude that Scotland is a terrible, terrible place.

irvine welsh wrote this (trainspooting writer ) 4 short storys and they'ere really weird, ewen bremner stars in it (trainspotting and alien Vs predator)

Interesting journey into the twisted mind of Irvine Welsh.

It's premise, three short stories, is it's downfall essentially as a lack of time to further explore each situation leaves you a bit frustrated. The key to that frustration being that the raw style and direction, existing in the same settings as Trainspotting, have you emotionally invested and gripped.

I doubt it makes much difference that most of the dialogue is indecipherable, unlikely it added any soul or charm to this dour "Tales of the unexpected" on a Glaswegian estate. A film which substitutes "writing" with "picking a soundtrack"

Well written twisted stories of urban excess, represented in subcultural Scotland. The actual production has similarities with the same writers 'Trainspotting' film, but does stand out in its own right.

The Acid House is a vulgar and perverted literary adaption, of three short stories, in the Scottish slums. It is loaded with profanity, and makes the viewer feel like trash, just by watching. Coming into the viewing I heard nothing of it, but judging it's negative critical reception, and lack of publicity, it's one of the most underrated films I ever encountered. It was hysterical black humor, and probably the best film I've seen from the nineties. The first story follows Boab, a lazy lump of dirt, who looses everything in a matter of a few hours. After a bar man philosophical meeting with God, he is turned into a fly. The meeting was surprisingly deep, and asks the true question of "why don't we use our powers". As a fly he gets revenge, and sees with the audience a scene of incredible disturbance. Then there's the most emotionally dwelling story "The Soft Touch". A truly caring but naive man, marries and impregnates a whore. Obviously enough she openly cheats on him, and everything goes down, for the man with no escape. The setting was tense, and while the ending was anti-climatic, it was the most well made of the shorts. Finally there's the story that the film invests the most effort into, The Acid House. This was absolutely, the best midnight humor I've ever came across. Dirty, crazy, and makes Trainspotting, look like it copped out. A dope head switches bodies with a newly born baby, and while switch of bodies has become a comedy cliche, this one actually made it work. I laughed eccentrically and it really completed the film, if there's any reason to finish it, here you go. In conclusion I can't explain my love for this film enough. The score and white trash setting put a mood. The small things like the graffiti and the bigger aspects such as the characters all had there contribution. I laughed and could still take the next scene with seriousness. The Acid House is not acclaimed nearly enough. I highly recommended to anyone who's willing to vitiate there brain, for two hours. I hoe all will love it as much as myself, though that's unlikely

Uneven but memorable.

Best film fae Edinburgh, ever!

riding off "trainspotting" success this series of short stories by irvine welsh somehow managed to get made. i didn't find any of them all that interesting really: the first story is essentially lifted from the bible - book of job - but end with a kafka twist (or is it "the fly"?); the second is about a pathetic guy who can't seem to grow a pair of balls and dump his whore of a wife; and the third is just a drug version of all those trading places films: "big", "freaky friday", etc... nothing original.

i didnt know what i was getting into and it left a foul smell in my mouth afterwards

it was very weird, but it was weird because it representing drugs, it was an movie but it was very weird and I would actually want it on DVD, it starred Stephen McCole, Maurice Roëves and Garry Sweeney

MUUUUUY EXTRAÃ'A... A veces pienso q no estoy segura si me gustò o no... Pero igual merece ser vista.

Te gek! Weird stuff!!

Not 'Trainspotting' but Irvine Welsh's next movie attempt does invoke a similar since of comfortable uneasiness.