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Okay, I was thinking about this, due to some news story about (I think) crystal meth and the problems some communities are having with it.  Some movies invent drugs, whether to give the protagonist a cause to fight against (or a lure to resist) or to establish a decaying society.  Goal for this thread:  catalog them.

What I can think of, off the top of my head:

Nuke - "Robocop III"
Mist - "Prayer of the Rollerboys"
Supercrack - "Frankenhooker"
Mugwump Juice - "Naked Lunch"

Prozium, the drug of the Librian state from Equilibrium.  (Wasn't it purple?)

My dear hubby forgot to mention my two personal favorites.  Stummies and Gleemonex!  Gotta love a little Brain Candy!

How about :

"The Stuff" in the The Stuff ,i think it would qualify because of its addictive nature and harmful qualities.

I watched A Scanner Darkly just a few days ago, the fictional narcotic of choice is Substance D

Ah, a few more -

Dune - Melange
Batman - Simlex
A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors - Hypnocil

Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man - blue crystal dream

Adrenachrome from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Bug Powder from Naked Lunch.
The Sphere from Woody Allen's Sleeper.

Death Sticks: Starwars: Attack of the Clones

I love the posters for Stummies in Brain Candy. 




How about Nuke from Robocop 2.

The Juice Elmer injects the kid with in BRAIN DAMAGE.

Tek from Tekwar
Blue Dreamers from Saturn 3
Mindjacks from Strange Days

A little more obscure: Vraxoin from the Doctor Who story The Nightmare of Eden.

Naw, all yogurt is like that.  I regularly have to immolate the inside of our refrigerator due to out of control active cultures.  Guess that we were lucky the cat was the first one to run afoul of the stuff.

How about Dr. Jekyll's serum that turned him into Mr. Hyde?

And wasn't there another movie about a drug people got hooked on that turned them into monsters? 

Monocaine(Duocaine in the sequels) in the INVISABLE MAN(1933).
That weird glow in the dark stuff in RE-ANIMATOR.
Didn't Mighty Mouse take some kinda pill? Or was that Under Dog?

The drug someone referred to in the original Rollerball that supposedly induced good dreams.

Nuke in Robocop 2 came in a rainbow of colors and flavors. 

The Trancer movies had the Trancer drug used as a super soldier serum around Trancers 3. 

Scanners had Ephemerol. 

If we include Dr Hyde's serum, the serums that turn Dr. Jeckyl into Ms. Hyde and Sister Hyde would need to be counted, too...

I'm smacking myself for missing Blue Dreamers, since I just wrote the review for that movie.  Of course, I often get help when I am typing.

Going to have to start categorizing these.  So far, it looks like mutagens and pleasure-inducing are the two type.  "The Stuff" is a bit different, as it actually takes over the person. 

More that came to mind (mutagens):

The vitamins created by Vimuville in Body Melt (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/bodymelt/).
The serum from Full Eclipse (http://www.badmovies.org/othermovies/fulleclipse/).
Alien love juice (makes the girls go wild) from Dr. Alien (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/dralien/).
The mushrooms from Matango (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/matango/).
From Wild Wild Planet (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/wildplanet) you have the stuff that dissolves people.
Turn people into catfish with the junk used in Zaat (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/zaat/).


Strange stuff:

Pattern from "LEXX: Eating Pattern"
Juice of Sapho from Dune (http://www.badmovies.org/othermovies/dune/).

What is the stuff served to Dale in Flash Gordon (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/80flashgordon/) that would make her a willing love slave to Ming, if she drinks it?

I though everyone was hooked on spice in Dune?

There's also Plutonium Nyborg from Heavy Metal.  "Mmmm, good nyborg man".

LOL, just found that Wikedpedia has already calalogued a whole ton of them:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_drugs

     Not to pick nits, but Hunter S. Thompson always claimed that "Adrenochrome" was real --
     Read the short piece (Fiction?  Journalism?  Weird Tale?) "The Blood of A Wig" -- Adrenochrome was supposedly sucked from the hypothalmus of a person suffering from advanced schizophrenia.  This was supposed to induce visions and a world view as experienced by the schizophrenic, albeit briefly.
     Thompson made several passing allusions to "Wig Blood"(Adrenochrome) in many of his sports pieces, etc.
     While there is little evidence to support this -- not many people are as willing to ingest any damn thing at all, the way Dr. Thompson was -- there is also nothing that I know of dismissing the assertion as wholly fictional.
peter johnson/denny oh my god look at the bats!!!

I remember, that in "Class Of Nuke 'em High" was special type of weed. It was radioactive but I don't remember its name.
Also in "Vegas In Space" there were 'sex changing pills'. 

Right now I cremember only these two

Does William Shatner's 'Tek' count?

What about the "super meth" from Frankenhooker? Does that count?

I've never caught it, but believe it was a computer program that replicated the effects of a drug.  Is that correct?


I did mention supercrack in the first post.  Unless, in some release of the film it was referred to as "super meth" instead.

Close enough.

I never stayed awake long enough during that one episode I watched to know if that is the definition or not.

The blue stuff in Alien Nation.
-Ed

From Babylon 5:
stems
ozones
and that stuff that psy-corpse put out that made junkies temporarily psychic

I think they may have invented one or two others

Actually, Tek was a lot like the memory replaying device in Strange Days. 

That's right! Now that I think about it, Jake was secretly using it to re-live memories of his life before he was framed.

Menard, I sat through through at least half the episodes, and can't remember a damn detail of any of them. You got the better end of the deal falling asleep.

I did kinda enjoy the TV movies before the series, but they aired as part of that syndicated Action Pack series of original TV movies and they came on around here at about 3 am on Sunday morning when I got off from work, so my standards for entertainment were pretty low, anything other than infomercials and religious programming or sports highlights/reruns.

A couple from TV shows:

Batman Beyond: Slappers - basically steroid patches

Thundercats: some kinda drug fruit -can't remember the name though

I know the supercrack from Frankenhooker has already been listed, but if you are allowing Tek and other mechanical devices onto the list, then I'll list the power drill from Frankenhooker; Jeffrey seems pretty addicted to it for stress relief.

My wife would probably agree with you that "Dewalt" and "Porter Cable" are both highly addictive drugs.