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Dominican Rep. Poison
687
Drama. Horror. Sci-Fi
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 ... [+]
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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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"Haynes has composed three distinctive stories that constitute case studies of antisocial aberrations, shot them in three strikingly different styles and intercut them in surprisingly successful ways." | ||
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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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