Stoner film is a subgenre of comedy film based on marijuana themes, where recreational use often drives the plot, sometimes representing cannabis culture more broadly or intended for that audience.
Genre
The midnight movie scene in theaters of the 1970s revived the hectoring anti-drug propaganda film Reefer Madness (1936) as an ironic counterculture comedy. The broad popularity of Reefer Madness led to a new audience for extreme anti-drug films bordering on self-parody, including Assassin of Youth (1937), Marihuana (1936), and She Shoulda Said No! a.k.a. The Devil's Weed (1949).
The duo Cheech & Chong established the archetypal "stoner" comedy throughout the 1970s, taking their antics to the big screen for Up in Smoke in 1978, establishing the contemporary stoner film genre.
High Times magazine, founded in 1974, began sponsoring the first Stony Awards in 2000, celebrating stoner films and television, recognizing a broad scope of noteworthy cannabis media.
The enduring influence of Reefer Madness led to a musical comedy remake in 2005.
Common elements
Many stoner movies have certain elements and themes in common. The template involves protagonists who have marijuana, are attempting to find marijuana, or have some other task to complete. The protagonists are often two friends in a variation of the buddy film. stoner crime film
- Your Highness (2011), stoner comic fantasy
- Bong of the Dead (2011), stoner horror film
- Paulette (2012), stoner crime film
- Savages (2012), stoner crime film
- The Culture High (2014), stoner documentary
- Inherent Vice (2014), stoner crime film
- Mile High: The Comeback of Cannabis (2014), stoner documentary
- Halloweed (2016), stoner horror film
- Grass Is Greener (2019), stoner documentary
- The Smoke Master (2022), stoner kung fu film
- Untitled Snoop Dogg biography (2027?), stoner biopic
See also
- Cannabis culture
- List of drug films
- Psychedelic film
- Television series about cannabis