Meth Death: A Demon in the Land

I hate to criticize videos which condemn killer drugs, but Meth Death sure gets a lot of mileage out of one blurry guy in a scary mask, a digital special effects workstation and one or two interviews. Some of the narration is downright silly. We're told, for instance, that "it's right next door, being cooked where once there was a Sunday pot roast" while we're shown incoherent images of cars driving around and people stepping off curbs in slo mo. The narration tells us that meth causes senseless acts of violence, but this assertion is accompanied by a strange montage of what look like car test crashes and battlefields from the Vietnam War. More coherent is an interview with a crank addict and her mother describing their descent into the hell of drug addiction. A more engaging and dynamic treatment of this subject, identically priced, is Drug Wars: Crank County (VL-1/98). Part of a 5-volume series, the other titles are Meth Babies, Teens and Meth, The Shadow People and Extreme Discomfort. Not a necessary purchase. Aud: J, H, C, P. (R. Ray)