The Doom Generation

The Doom Generation
by Gregg Araki

The Doom Generation
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Actor: Amanda Bearse, Christopher Knight, Don Galloway, Nicky Katt, Rose McGowan
Director: Gregg Araki
Brand: LIONSGATE ENT.
Cinematographer: Jim Fealy
Composer: Dan Gatto
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Product features:
  • In this way-over-the-top homage to blood-spattering road movies a trio of aimless, world-weary teenagers get their thrills torturing and killing a trail of cashiers and clerks before engaging in kinetic menages-a-trois. Available in rated and unrated versions. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?COMEDY Rating:?NR Age:?031398216872 UPC:?031398216872 Manufacturer No:?21687

Movie Reviews of The Doom Generation

Movie Review: Dystopia for the cluttered mind
Summary: 4 Stars

Rose McGowan is Amy, a rebellious young woman who is no-nonsense & tough-as-nails. She is looking for some excitement & on this night she has found it. (Or, maybe it has found her?). Boy, has it ever; her excitement comes in the form of a string of bad luck where ex lovers remember her (mistake her?) and determine that they want to kill her. Even the "men in suits" in the government want to whack her!

This is what you would call a dystopia movie where the characters exhibit very few traits which would be associated with sanity. It's quite a dark movie, and the scenes seem to be a sort-of revolving door between violence & sex. The story is full of adrenaline and never really lets up; it's a flick that's prone to overwhelming your senses if you're not careful.

Ultimately, this struck me as a cross between the Twilight Zone and a Rob Zombie movie. Perhaps I'm just warped in the head, but I love movies like this! It should be noted that there is a great deal that's strange here, and the macabre humor, incessant religious imagery and the way everything is so directionless sets an unusual tone. 3 people are driving somewhere in a car; we never get any sense of what their master plan is. It's almost like a twisted version of The Wizard of Oz where the Yellow Brick Road doesn't lead anywhere.

So, if you're not squeamish about dudes getting castrated, blood everywhere and Rose McGowan naked (2nd thought, who would be squeamish about THAT?), then this one just might be for you. It's a wild journey, so be sure to fasten your safety belt for this dark post-modern existential nihilistic joyride!

Summary of The Doom Generation

Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickie marts.
Superior to both Kids and Natural Born Killers, Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation is a snarling satire that has the emotional range to prompt rage, fear, laughter, and grief in a viewer. Three L.A.-based, almost-twentysomethings--an incredibly foul-mouthed Valley Girl (Rose McGowan), her puppyish boyfriend (James Duval), and a sexy bad boy (Johnathon Schaech)--take to the road after a series of comic collisions with skinheads and gun-toting convenience-store clerks. While secret lawmen and voyeuristic TV cameras follow their movements, the fugitives gradually warm up to a three-way sexual relationship that wraps them in a profound, renewing innocence--an innocence then stolen by a wrathful America. Araki skewers the usual villains: the media, homophobes, gun nuts, Gen-X stereotypes. But there is so much more at stake here than meets the eye, an extraordinary anger and fear about predatory intolerance and purposelessness about the young. The DVD release includes the original theatrical trailer and production notes. --Tom Keogh

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