"The Miskatonic Acid Test"

The 1960s were a strange period, for Arkham, Massachusetts, and the rest of the nation. No single incident was weirder, however, than Miskatonic's gathering of music-loving young people, LSD, and ancient tomes in 1969. "The Miskatonic Acid Test" is a feature length film cataloging this tumultuous period in the little New England town's history. Young hippies, many from Miskatonic University, sought to expand their consciousness like other experimental groups across the country. But when trifling with these sort of things in Arkham, you always get more than originally bargained for...

From the official synopsis:

In 1969 a group of students at Miskatonic University in witch-haunted Arkham, Massachusetts decided to emulate the West Coast and put on their own sort of "happening", where "music and atmosphere could combine to create an alteration of consciousness", with the clandestine help of a little LSD. Or maybe a lot. However, it is said that one should be very careful when experimenting with the nether regions of consciousness, particularly when one's psychedelic event is occuring under the watchful eye of a philosophy professor who specializes in the study of Evil, and most particularly when that selfsame professor has access to the darker realms of the Miskatonic University library, where reside ancient tomes that should never be read under any circumstances, especially not aloud, and especially not in front of a crowd, and most especially not in front of a crowd that is under the effects of mind-altering drugs...

As intriguing as this movie's premise is, the 2006 production is a tough one to find. It supposedly wrapped up late that year, but hasn't made any screenings or DVD releases yet (at least, none I've been fortunate enough to stumble on). Alas, this may be a dead project, or one indefinitely on hold. Unlike so many good Lovecraftian projects that vanish from the map, this one has at least left us with this immortal trailer, perhaps the only footage we will ever have of Miskatonic's LSD-driven foray's to the other side.



-Grim Blogger