Co-hosted by The Australian Psychedelic Society
AFTER HOURS (1985) + TRIP REPORTS Book Launch
Theatre Royal, Castlemaine - Cinema (Castlemaine, VIC)
Thursday, 24 September 2026 6:30 pm
To celebrate the release of Rich Haridy's new non-fiction book ‘Trip Reports’, we're hosting a launch at the Theatre. The event will feature a Q&A with the author hosted by the Australian Psychedelic Society (APS), alongside a rare screening of Martin Scorsese's yuppie nightmare comedy, After Hours (1985).
6:30pm: Book launch + Q&A
Investigative journalist Rich Haridy spent two years diving into the world of psychedelic science and medicine in Australia. The result, his first book ‘Trip Reports’, begins by taking the reader all the way back to 1960s Melbourne when LSD was regularly prescribed by psychiatrists before shooting forward to the present day where we find microdosing, MDMA therapy, and magic mushroom genetics under the research microscope.
Join us before the movie for an exclusive, and likely provocative, conversation with Haridy, hosted by APS member and Associate Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Monica Barratt.
7:45pm: After Hours (1985)
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences—involving underground-art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight—pile up with anxiety-inducing relentlessness and thwart his attempts to get home. With this Kafkaesque cult classic, Martin Scorsese—abetted by Michael Ballhaus’s kinetic cinematography and scene-stealing supporting turns by Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O’Hara, and John Heard—directed a darkly comic tale of mistaken identity, turning the desolate night world of 1980s SoHo into a bohemian wonderland of surreal menace.
‘Trip Reports’ will be available for sale at the venue and the author will be present for signings before and after the screening.
6:30pm: Book launch + Q&A
Investigative journalist Rich Haridy spent two years diving into the world of psychedelic science and medicine in Australia. The result, his first book ‘Trip Reports’, begins by taking the reader all the way back to 1960s Melbourne when LSD was regularly prescribed by psychiatrists before shooting forward to the present day where we find microdosing, MDMA therapy, and magic mushroom genetics under the research microscope.
Join us before the movie for an exclusive, and likely provocative, conversation with Haridy, hosted by APS member and Associate Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Monica Barratt.
7:45pm: After Hours (1985)
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences—involving underground-art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight—pile up with anxiety-inducing relentlessness and thwart his attempts to get home. With this Kafkaesque cult classic, Martin Scorsese—abetted by Michael Ballhaus’s kinetic cinematography and scene-stealing supporting turns by Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, Catherine O’Hara, and John Heard—directed a darkly comic tale of mistaken identity, turning the desolate night world of 1980s SoHo into a bohemian wonderland of surreal menace.
‘Trip Reports’ will be available for sale at the venue and the author will be present for signings before and after the screening.