Cress Williams, James Duval, Johnathon Schaech, Perry Farrell, Rose McGowan ...( see more  see more... ) , Skinny Puppy

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickiem...( read more  read more... )arts.

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28 critics

R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Gregg Araki

Release Date: October 25, 1995

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DVD Release Date: August 4, 1998

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  • July 10, 2009
    Pretty sure this was written by a 9 year old who learned the f word. It makes no sense, and they constatnly insult each other using phrases I've not heard since middle school. It gets 1.5 stars for being strange and having killing and a few short blissful moments of Rose McGowa...( read more)n. Otherwise I wanted strangle every character in it.
  • December 2, 2008
    This movie has a consistent and unique tone, which is why I wasn't surprised this was an Araki film. Araki is fantastic with tone, and in this film, he creates an alternate electro junkie 90s fever-dream where the world is always on the edge of ending and everything is distorted ...( read more)into symbols and pop art to convey the indescribable desperation and fear the characters think rests naturally within their souls. The soundtrack is near constant, and is as much an important character as the three people this film focuses on. The story is an odd love triangle set in post modern crazy land, with the repeated incidents of sudden deadly violence and cases of unforgivable mistaken identity pushing the plot from one sex scene to another.

    This film pulls into the world of these three characters so fully. Rose McGowan creates the paradigm of the annoying junkie girl from the 90s and it plays well off the sensitive stoner and daring bad boy cutouts of characters. Definitely a film for people who feel like thinking about what they are watching, as much of the detail is in symbolic 90s art creations and the main plot points reference not reality, but B movies. Watching this movie is like falling into an abyss of the 1990s and its complacent pessimism. The film just leaves one feeling unsettled and in this way perfectly captures its era and what its characters are feeling and conveys that to the audience.

    Fantastic ending, a real blinder that works so well.

    Cool cameos: Parker Posey and Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction

    "Most Fucked Up" highlight: head still talking, the conclusion
  • April 19, 2008
    I'm surprised that the same man who directed Mysterious Skin also directed this atrocity.
  • October 15, 2007
    Cheesy, sleezy and gory. Rose McGowan still manages to badly act, but James Duval is really endearing somehow. It's worth the watch..but don't get too invested.
  • August 2, 2007
    For some reason I loved this movie as a teenager. On repeat viewing a decade later, it just looks like a bunch of stupid kids being egocentric brats. Lots of pointless violence and shagging, but not much else. Love Araki's work, but this was pretty stupid.
  • January 24, 2010
    what a waste of my time, this movie is nothing but terrible and no story to it but just a lot of sences that it doesn't match where is the story.
  • January 22, 2010
    HOT! Mcgowan is ubersexy in this one. It's dark and definitly not for the squeamish.
  • January 17, 2010
    Holly shit.

    "Life is lonely, boring, and dumb." No, you're thinking of this movie,
    twat. Now shut up and take off your... Uh, never mind.
  • December 8, 2009
    i want to see the end results
  • December 5, 2009
    I thought that this was a very poor excuse of a movie. It was as if the director was trying too hard to prove that his vision in this movie was artistic. Well, film making is an art, but not everyone is going to like it. This was a movie I didn't like. The only thing I liked abou...( read more)t this movie was Rose McGowan, otherwise this was a complete waste of my time. This really didn't even feel like it had a story to it. Everything seemed to feel like it was way too forced.

Critic Reviews


December 20, 2005
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

Self-consciously strives for transgressive nihilism without ever recognizing the sheer absurdity of its every component. full review

May 12, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

It's a savagely funny ride fueled by Araki's insight and blunt compassion. full review

January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

This is the kind of movie where the filmmaker hopes to shock you with sickening carnage and violent amorality, while at the same time holding himself carefully aloof from it with his style. full review

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  • stevesparks1971
    December 15, 2006
    I love this movie. Rose M. is just so naughty in this movie. I love it.

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