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Dominican Rep. Poison
- Original title
- Poison
- Year
- 1991
- Running time
- 85 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Edith Meeks
- Larry Maxwell
Susan Norman- Scott Renderer
- Ken Schatz
- James Lyons
John Leguizamo- Millie White
- Buck Smith
- Anne Giotta
- Michelle Sullivan
- Douglas Gibson
- Ian Nemser
- Rob LaBelle
- Marina Lutz
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. Horror. Sci-Fi | Independent Film (US). Experimental Cinema. Anthology Film. Mockumentary. Prison Drama. Gay & Lesbian
- Synopsis
- Three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence. Shot in mock TV-documentary style, 'Poison' tells a bizarre story of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice; “Horror,” is filmed like a delirious ’60s B-movie melodrama, is a gothic tale of a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague; while “Homo” explores the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.
- "Hero": Seven-year-old Richie shoots his abusive father and then flies away. The story is told in the style of an episode of a tabloid television news magazine.
- "Horror": Told in the style of a "psychotropic horror film" of the mid-1960s, Horror is about a scientist who isolates the "elixir of human sexuality" and, after drinking it, is transformed into a hideous murdering leper.
- "Homo": The story of a prisoner, John Broom, who finds himself attracted to another prisoner, Jack Bolton, whom he had known and seen humiliated as a youth in a juvenile facility. It is an adaptation of part of Genet's "Miracle of the Rose" (1946).
- Awards
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1991: Sundance Film Festival: Jury Prize1991: Sitges Film Festival: Special Jury Mention1991: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Director & Best First Feature
- Critics' reviews
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"'Poison' is not a film that will play the shopping malls, but it remains a most imaginative, exquisite and compassionate piece of work."
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"While the limitations of the budget occasionally show, the elegantly appropriate photography, quirky performances and Haynes' unique vision carry the day. He is clearly a director to watch."
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"Uncompromising and heady with ambition, Haynes likes to make his audiences think"
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"Haynes's feature debut, is an exercise in cinema of ideas that, while audacious and occasionally compelling, is ultimately less than the sum of its parts."
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"'Poison', low-budget but with all-human actors, is dark and funny and has something very powerful to say about society and how it applies irrational stigmas"
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