The Doom Generation

The Doom Generation (1995)

  • 47% of critics liked it
    (34 reviews)

  • 61% of users liked it
    (9,018 ratings)

Billed as "a heterosexual movie by Gregg Araki," The Doom Generation is the director's self-styled bad-taste teen film. Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) is an obnoxious teenage speed freak and her boyfriend Jordan White (James Duval) is a passive, slow-witted poseur who won't have sex with… More

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Oct 25, 1995 Wide
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  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    Striking to look at, though often offensively opportunistic, this mainly comes across as a throwaway shocker with energy to spare. There's not much thought in evidence though.

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    A nihilistic comedy about a trio of alienated youngsters, pic is bold not only in its art design, but also in its narrative and tone, a mixture of satire and horror with heavy dosage of steamy sex and macabre violence.

  • Emanuel Levy, Variety

    Inspired by Godard's classic Band Apart, Araki's fifth feature is his most audacious and most technically accomplished film to date, reflecting the larger than usual budget and gained experience.

  • , Time Out

    Imagine Natural Born Killers with a sense of humour.

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    Sledgehammer direction, heavy irony and the easiest imaginable targets hardly show talent off to good advantage.

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  • Emil K


    Oh my, if you are in for a lots of screwing, blowing heads off, yelling and cutting cocks off then maybe you can get something out of it, but for me this is just one noisy and trashy piece from Araki who surely is talented as a director, but goes way over the top with this one.

  • Anthony L


    Never has a film been so undeserving of the 'Modern Classic' tag that it has been awarded. Even people who declare it a 'cult' film probably only do so because they've seen very few films. It's amateurish, it's cheap, it's devoid of anything new… More

  • Curtis L


    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… More

  • _kelly .


    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… More

  • Keysha H


    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.

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