Straight to Hell Drinking Game

compiled by Mike Kamikaze, with the help of you-know-who-you-are
(yeah, we had a good time, didn't we?)

okay, "Straight to Hell" is simply the most amazing movie ever made, full of intertwining subplots, biting social commentary, and, as the jacket states, is "a story of blood, money, guns, coffee, and sexual tension" - but what else could we expect from the people who brought us "Sid and Nancy" and "Repo Man?"


There's several different variations on play, and all three will get you wasted at about the same rate (the first method has an edge if you're drinking hard alcohol).
First, get friends, booze, and a copy of Straight to Hell in the same place at the same time. Choose 'a,' 'b,' or 'c' below and start the movie.
a) drink as much as possible as quickly as possible without throwing up, being hospitalised, or dying. these qualifiers are very important.
b) drink upon an exhibition of blood, money, guns, coffee, and/or sexual tension
c) drink upon an occurence from the list below



Not to be too formal --Straight to Hell doesn't lend itself to formality-- but we need some definitions:

EXHIBITION: demonstrated upon the screen, heard as a sound effect, spoken, implied or otherwise referred to...this can lead to some rather tenuous conclusions based off of some intricate chains of logic, which is, of course, in the nature of the movie. The more tenuous the conclusion and more intricate the chain the better - it just has to be demonstrable.

example: Billy, miffed at being dissed for his poetry, takes it out on the weiner guy.

If there are multiple exhibitions in evidence at the same time, respect to the movie demands a drink per item exhibited.

example:when Willy runs out of ammo, drink per pistol as well as any other drinking qualifiers in evidence at that time.

example:when a skull appears in the scene when the McMahon clan is singing while arranged as in The Last Supper, drink three times - once for the skull, once for the obscure religious reference, and once because the McMahon clan is singing _as a clan_...of course, if you want to drink for each person singing on the screen, we won't stop you...although the people you're playing with probably should.

DRINK: a sip, swallow, whatever of your beverage-of-choice. For your safety as well as the safety of those around you, shots from a bottle should probably be avoided. Since we're talking about safety, one other thing - firearms in near proximity and/or on one's person should be checked and cleared at the door, those little zip ties work great for keeping the chamber open.



Occurences Upon Which To Drink

  • a bell is exhibited
  • courtney love whines, complains
  • courtney love throws a tantrum
  • courtney love dies screaming (drink lots)
  • a cheap red european car is exhibited
  • there's an obscure literary reference
  • a skull is exhibited
  • someone quickdraws
  • cash is exhibited
  • someone spits
  • a secondary character takes a leadership position
  • someone gets shot
  • someone dies
  • a reference is made to quitting smoking
  • someone snickers
  • a suit gets ruined
  • someone sings
  • coffee is exhibited
  • someone says something unintelligible
  • someone runs out of ammunition
  • someone looks to Norwood for leadership
  • an obscure historical reference is made (i.e., Farben, etc...)
  • George makes a self-aggrandising tough-guy statement
  • there's an Elvis reference
  • someone laughs
  • Carl gets shit on (includes getting shot)
  • gratuitous switchblade exhibition
  • there's an obscure cultural reference (the bull, etc...)
  • there's an exhibition of sex or violence not necessary to the plot
    (note you've got to figure out the plot first. should take six or so viewings)
  • a car backfires
  • a shotgun is exhibited
  • automatic weapons fire is exhibited
  • some drunk watching the movie makes a previously unestablished complicated connection between seemingly random
    events in the movie (note that there are no random events in the movie)
  • the connection makes sense to people other than the drunk


  • yeah, some of the rules contradict each other. work around it or work with it - rationalization and fallacious logic is the name of the game here. you might also agree to play only with certain rules unless you've got the tolerance of a Russian sailor.


    play safe.




    - M. Kamikaze

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