The Doom Generation

my introduction to gregg araki's work was totally fucked up, and it legitimately floored me. there's few movies i rush to slap five stars on before the credits even roll (and fewer still that i'm inclined to after said credits start) but totally fucked up was one of them. i was excited to see what araki would do after and i gotta say... he didn't disappoint. once again, the opening grabbed me by the throat- the stylish, in-your-face aesthetics and editing immediately endeared this movie to me. rose mcgowan and james duval didn't hurt either. as such, the movie was fine- with a host of running... read more

Two freewheeling, substance using kids pick up a violent, attractive, drifter who spins their lives further towards a dangerous nowhere. "Photographed on location in hell" (actually Los Angeles' most dilapidated suburbs), this nihilistic but desperately romantic road movie revels in its own excesses, with extreme violence (ranging from a few cartoonish dismemberments to a genuinely disturbing bloodshed), explicit sex, striking visuals and a macabre, deadpan sense of humour. As far as one can get from the prefabricated, self-indulgent and ultimately narcissistic rampage of "Natural Born read more

Somehow I feel like the director was into Rose McGowan read more