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.
- Body horror
- Sexual violence
- Bleak ending
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Prestige, bleak, grave and open-ended.
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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- griggs79on TMDB · Mar 20256/10
Watched _Poison_ at 3am when I couldn’t sleep—probably not the wisest choice. It’s bold, brash, and all a bit much when your brain’s half-mush. Some fascinating ideas and striking moments, though. I didn’t love it, but I’m curious enough to give it another go when I’m properly awake
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Cast
- Edith MeeksFelicia Beacon ("Hero")
- Millie WhiteMillie Sklar ("Hero")
- Buck SmithGregory Lazar ("Hero")
- Anne Giotta Evelyn McAlpert ("Hero")
- Lydia LafleurSylvia Manning ("Hero")
- Ian NemserSean White ("Hero")
- Rob LaBelleJay Wete ("Hero")
- Evan DunskyDr. MacArthur ("Hero")
- Marina LutzHazel Lamprecht ("Hero")
- Barry CassidyOfficer Rilt ("Hero")
Crew
- Todd HaynesDirector
- Todd HaynesWriter
- Maryse AlbertiDirector of Photography
- James BennettOriginal Music Composer
- Todd HaynesEditor
- James LyonsEditor
- Christine VachonProducer
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