Alice In Wonderland An X Rated Musical Fantasy 1976
Today, the film is a cult sensation among several disparate groups:
What separates this film from the average 70s loop (which ran 15-20 minutes with no dialogue) is its ambitious, baffling commitment to being a musical. Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy contains seven original songs. Are they good? No. Are they memorable? Absolutely. Alice In Wonderland An X Rated Musical Fantasy 1976
Carroll’s Alice had long been a target for psychedelic reinterpretation. The 1960s had given us Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” and the dark, druggy film Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1972) starring Fiona Fullerton. It was only a matter of time before someone realized that the story’s inherent themes of transformation, power dynamics, and bizarre rules lent themselves to the adult industry. Today, the film is a cult sensation among
The opening number, “Follow the Rabbit,” sounds like a rejected Carpenters B-side played through a broken speaker. The Tweedle brothers’ ode to swinging, “Two Is Company (But Three Is a Party),” has a genuine country twang that feels wholly out of place in a psychedelic dreamscape. The true showstopper, however, is the Queen of Hearts’ power ballad, “Croquet,” in which she belts: “With a swing and a smack / I’ll never look back / My rules are the only ones true.” Carroll’s Alice had long been a target for