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The Doom Generation

R

1995

1h 10m

Drama

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Teens Jordan White (James Duval) and Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) pick up a handsome drifter named Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech). Red tends to create combustible situations -- for example, a trip to a convenience store leads to a clerk getting decapitated. Afterward, the trio voyages through small-town America, where Amy is accosted by various men claiming to be her lovers, and she and Jordan find themselves drawn to Xavier. But can any amount of sex lift the sense of doom hanging over them?

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

01/14/2011

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.

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Variety Staff

Variety

03/26/2009

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.

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Emanuel Levy

Variety

06/20/2006

4/5

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.

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Scott Nye

Battleship Pretension

11/21/2024

To call its queerness subtext is an insult to subtext.

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D.M. Palmer

Vague Visages

11/09/2023

Gregg Araki envisages the final decade of the century as a rampant forest fire of kitsch and catastrophe...

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Sean Burns

WBUR’s Arts & Culture

06/18/2023

It’s hard not to admire Araki's obnoxious audacity. The film is a sustained, 83-minute affront to decency and good taste.

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Sean

Aug 28

Iconic 90’s movie!! Felt like I was back in high school watching the movie again

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Monty G

@Montyginger Jan 7

I just found out that "JONATHAN ROSENBAUM" was a male critic ! I thought he was a woman ! A sad old grandma maybe but it turned out that he was just a lonely grandpa. And oh honey you have no taste. This movie was so good ! And I enjoyed every second of it ! I mean do I have to say that Rose McGowan is an amazing actress ? She’s one of the defining figures of the 90s and she shines in every single movie she’s in.

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Dean T

@RT08236790 07/10/2025

Pure 90s nostalgia. Disturbing and stylish. A great ride that goes from manic comedy to manic disturbing.

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Phillip N

@RT27345719 04/17/2025

A great Gen X movie.

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Steve D

@RT35616104 02/17/2023

An aimless mess of a film.

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02/13/2021

It perfectly knows the kind of film it is and takes it to another level, achieving his own freedom but giving it a black psycho twist at the end.

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Synopsis

Teens Jordan White (James Duval) and Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) pick up a handsome drifter named Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech). Red tends to create combustible situations -- for example, a trip to a convenience store leads to a clerk getting decapitated. Afterward, the trio voyages through small-town America, where Amy is accosted by various men claiming to be her lovers, and she and Jordan find themselves drawn to Xavier. But can any amount of sex lift the sense of doom hanging over them?

Director: Gregg Araki
Producer: Andrea Sperling, Gregg Araki, Yves Marmion
Screenwriter: Gregg Araki
Distributor: Trimark Pictures
Production Co: Blurco, Why Not Productions, Desperate Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 25, 1995, Original
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Apr 7, 2023
Release Date (DVD): Aug 7, 2007
Runtime: 1h 10m
Sound Mix: Stereo

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