Richard Stanley was hired to direct "The Island of Doctor Moreau" but was replaced by John Frankenheimer after a few days of shooting. However, Stanley considered the film to be his baby (he co-wrote the script) and didn't want to leave. So he disguised himself as one of the mutants and secretly remained on the shoot.

You can watch the documentary about the shooting of this B-movie and it's full of weird details like that. It's called "Lost Soul: the doomed journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Doctor Moreau"

They smell like plastic, metal, complex hydrocarbons, and death.

People may think he's crazy, but part of psychedelics is hypersensitivity. I doubt he could actually see in the dark and smell landmines, but his brain probably recognized very small details and fabricated hallucinations based on what little he did pick up on.

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I wonder if his memory of 'seeing in the dark' stemmed from his pupils being extremely dilated.

Let's pause for a moment and focus on that intent:
I'm going to take LSD in a war zone.

It's like the psychedelic revolution smashed right into The Right Stuff test pilot daredevil attitude. Some people truly seem to be made different than you and me.

That said, it probably wasn't one of those legendary "heroic doses", as a certain low-to-medium range (which varies from person to person) does sharpen awareness of things we normally filter out automatically.

If this guy did LSD in a war zone, he's probably done it many times before, is familiar with its' effects, a medium dose for him might be a heavy one for the rest of us... mere mortals.

Pretty sure that's Harlan Williams.

I'm not saying he could smell landmines, but apparently elephants and rats can.

Though I'm assuming their snouts are fairly close to the ground.

Who knows, maybe LSD unlocks the part of our brain which can smell landmines, and he was spiderman crawling in front of the camera crew, sniffing around like a TSA dog.

Maybe somewhere in the DoD, someone is thinking of setting up an experiment on this.

Wait, you guys can't smell landmines? I thought everyone could do that!

Shortly after that he made Hardware, a pefect Christmas movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_9tKss2_oU

Cool but please crop it next time, it's annoying on mobile.

Almonds. Explosives smell like almonds. Or cow shit. Depends on the kind.

It's not stupid, if it works.

What a lad

lol!! This crazy ass. He just got lucky af.

Like battery acid/Plasticine and cheap cookware. Kind of like the used pots aisle of a Goodwill

Fuggin' goat!