Rating: R
Genre:
Crime
Release Date: 08/05/1998
SubTitles: French/Espanol/English
Dubbed: English
Sound: 2
Run Time: 83 min
Distributor/Studio: Lions Gate
Billed as "a heterosexual movie by
Gregg Araki,"
The Doom Generation is the director's self-styled bad-taste teen film.
Amy Blue (
Rose McGowan) is an obnoxious teenage speed freak and her boyfriend
Jordan White (
James Duval) is a passive, slow-witted poseur who won't have sex with her because he's terrified of AIDS (even though they both claim to be virgins). One day, they run across
Xavier Red (
Johnathon Schaech), a charming but enigmatic drifter who has a bad habit of killing people. Joining the young couple on a seemingly endless road trip,
Xavier (or "
X,"as the verbally challenged
Jordan insists on calling him), proves a threatening and repulsive yet strangely alluring companion whose very presence raises issues of loyalty and sexual identity.
The Doom Generation is dotted with a variety of eccentric cameo appearances, including comic
Margaret Cho, actress
Parker Posey, musician
Perry Farrell, "Hollywood Madame"
Heidi Fleiss, and onetime
Brady Bunch star
Christopher Knight. This is the middle installment in
Araki's "teen apocalypse trilogy," which also includes 1993's
Totally F***ed Up and 1997's
Nowhere.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
