Trip Report By A Psychonaut
2025 · 18m
Directed by Mycle Scheuer
Genres: dark comedy, experimental, thriller
Tones: darkly comic, surreal, tense
When Conrad tries a new drug from his collection, his skeptical friend Ayo tripsits him through kaleidoscopic hallucinations as tension escalates beyond either of their control.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A drug-trip thriller that actually *becomes* the hallucination instead of just depicting one — the genre rug gets pulled out from under you so completely that by the end you're not sure if you're watching dark comedy, body horror, or a descent into genuine chaos, and that refusal to pick a lane is exactly why it works.
Scheuer demonstrates formal control over genuinely difficult material, maintaining compositional clarity through the psychedelic excess while the editing rhythms mirror the protagonist's deteriorating agency — it's a film deeply aware of the experimental cinema lineage it's working within, executing that tradition with precision.
The sound design choice to let the ambient hallucinations gradually *overwhelm* the dialogue rather than replace it is the move that sells the whole thing — it's a small decision that transforms what could've been a gimmick into something genuinely disorienting, done on what was clearly a modest budget.
Reviews
Scheuer's experimental style pays off. Instead of relying on slapstick humour, the dialogues are filled with sarcasm and wit, and ably delivered to pull off the tension between the duo.