The entire town of Yerba City is turned into mindless drones due to an addictive drug called “The Drip” which was developed by a man who’s daughter, Claire, is searching for him. Besides her the only remaining unaffected being around is a self-hating sinister man named Miles that follows her on her search for the only person alive that she can trust.
Let me be blunt about this movie. I found myself being lost a lot throughout the entire film, I had to rewind it many times to even understand half of what the movie was about and still found myself lost. Here’s what I noticed.
Alright well the movie starts out in a mansion where a large group of richies are lounging around drugged up on this drug called “The Drip” that’s handed out by masked waiters and listening to Silent Night. Then in comes our lead, Claire, and sits on a couch next to the bald and creepy Miles who gives her a drugged cigarette which makes her have these strange visions, in fact throughout the entire movie she has these strange incestuous visions of her father which are shown in color, with the rest of the movie being in black and white.
 
Anyways she has an epiphany and decides she is going to go to a place called Tiburon, along which she runs into nothing but “Drip Dealers”, the droned out druggies called “Angels” with upside-down triangles on their foreheads and a lot of obstacles on her way to find her father. She finds herself on a wild goose chase at every turn. The ending however is quite strange, a little stranger than the movie itself but overall I think the plot is really hard to follow which is a shame considering it took 10 years to make the movie.
With a little more story and a lot more content this movie might be a great little mind fuck to ride around on for an hour and a half but I personally found myself bored very early in the movie. I had to watch the movie with the directors commentary to even understand most of the scenes and even then I just didn’t understand what the hell he was trying to get across to the viewers, which isn’t something any movie should hold back.
This movie really didn’t have enough of a story to me, I found myself getting really annoyed by the characters and I lost interest way to early in the movie, that and it had NOTHING to do with horror, it was more of a psychological thriller without the thrills. I don’t recommend this movie to people that are expecting anything other than an hour and a half of a drug movie without the great visuals most drug movies give.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Yerba, Yerba City
MOVIE YEAR: 2003
DIRECTOR: Michael Ferris Gibson
WRITING CREDITS: Michael Ferris Gibson
GENRE: Sci-Fi, Thriller
CAST: Jennifer West Savitch, Dominik Overstreet, Anne Goldmann
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 77 min
RATING: 3/10
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