Poison

Poison

1991 · 85 min · EN · NC-17 · 6.0 (97 votes)
Dir. Todd Haynes · Starring Edith Meeks, Millie White, Buck Smith, Anne Giotta , Lydia Lafleur, Ian Nemser · Music James Bennett
DramaHorrorScience Fiction

A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.

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A deeply unsettling and visceral experience, this film plunges into the anxieties of the body and society. It’s a claustrophobic, arthouse descent into the consequences of scientific hubris and repressed desires.

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