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POISON
Cat. No. : ACC0045
HORROR/DRAMA,1991,85 Minutes,English,B&W/Colour,Todd Haynes' rare short film "DOTTIE GETS SPANKED",TODD HAYNES,Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Norman, Scott Renderer, James Lyons,"Imaginative and suggestive... takes you places you haven't been." - NEWSWEEK
"Brash and haunting... witty and effective." - NEW YORK TIMES,POISON is the celebrated first feature by TODD HAYNES. The film was inspired by the writings of Jean Genet and deftly interweaves three tales - Hero, Horror and Homo - and builds towards a devastating climax.
Hero, shot in mock TV-documentary style, tells a bizarre story of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice; Horror, filmed like a delirious '50s B-movie melodrama, is the gothic tale of a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague; while the lushly photographed Homo explores the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.
A runaway theatrical hit and Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, which made national headlines and the network news when it was attacked by right-wing minister Donald Wildmon, POISON is unsettling, unforgettable and thoroughly entertaining.
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