Fresh
I could have done without the designer prison, but most of the other stylistic conceits work.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Poison
The whole world is dying of panicky fright.
1991 · 1h 25m · R
Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
Directed by
Todd Haynes
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
76%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Arguably the strongest American debut feature of the '90s.
Rob Nelson, Village Voice
Fresh
Todd Haynes' Poison is a conceptually bold, stylistically audacious first feature, a compelling study of different forms of deviance.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Boldly self conscious, Poison switches channels among its three stylistically varied but thematically linked tales with cumulative, claustrophobic power.
David Ansen, Newsweek
Fresh
Compelling and quirkily intelligent; Genet, one feels, would have been impressed.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
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