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The Doom Generation
Directed by	Gregg Araki
Produced by	Gregg Araki Andrea Sperling
Written by	Gregg Araki
Starring	James Duval Rose McGowan Johnathon Schaech
Music by	Dan Gatto
Cinematography	Jim Fealy
Editing by	Gregg Araki Kate McGowan
Distributed by	Trimark Pictures
Release date(s)	27 October 1995
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Totally Fucked Up
Followed by	Nowhere
IMDb profile

The Doom Generation is a film by director Gregg Araki. Released in 1995 it stars Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech and James Duval as two teenagers and a 20-something punk drifter who get involved in a ménage à trois. It is the second of a trilogy of films known as the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy, the first being Totally Fucked Up and the last Nowhere. It was Araki's first movie to deal with heterosexual relationships. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Doom_generation. ... Gregg Araki (Japanese: グレッグ・アラキ) (b. ... Gregg Araki (Japanese: グレッグ・アラキ) (b. ... Andrea Sperling is an American independent film producer based in Los Angeles. ... Gregg Araki (Japanese: グレッグ・アラキ) (b. ... James Duval (born September 10, 1972) is an American actor, probably most famous for his roles in Donnie Darko as Frank and as Singh in Go. ... Rose Arianna McGowan (born September 5, 1973[1]) is an American actress best known for her role as Paige Matthews in The WB television series Charmed and the cult-classic The Doom Generation. ... Johnathon Schaech (born September 10, 1969 in Edgewood, Maryland) is an American actor, writer, director and producer. ... Dan Gatto is a musician in the band Babyland. ... Gregg Araki (Japanese: グレッグ・アラキ) (b. ... Trimark Pictures Inc. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The year 1995 in film involved some significant events. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Totally Fucked Up (censored title Totally F***ed Up in many references and publicity material) is a 1993 film written and directed by Gregg Araki. ... Nowhere typically means a place that doesnt exist or a place that seems like it doesnt exist. ... Gregg Araki (Japanese: グレッグ・アラキ) (b. ... The year 1995 in film involved some significant events. ... Rose Arianna McGowan (born September 5, 1973[1]) is an American actress best known for her role as Paige Matthews in The WB television series Charmed and the cult-classic The Doom Generation. ... Johnathon Schaech (born September 10, 1969 in Edgewood, Maryland) is an American actor, writer, director and producer. ... James Duval (born September 10, 1972) is an American actor, probably most famous for his roles in Donnie Darko as Frank and as Singh in Go. ... Punks at a music festival The punk subculture is a subculture/counterculture based on punk rock. ... Look up ménage à trois in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Totally Fucked Up (censored title Totally F***ed Up in many references and publicity material) is a 1993 film written and directed by Gregg Araki. ... Nowhere is a 1997 film by director and screenwriter Gregg Araki. ...

Synopsis

Punk rock lovers Jordan White (Duval) and Amy Blue (McGowan) pick up a handsome drifter named Xavier Red (Schaech) while driving home from a club. Jordan gives Xavier the nickname "X." A late night stop at a convenience store leaves the three on the run when X accidentally kills the store's owner (Dustin Nguyen). The trio hides in a motel to avoid arrest. While Jordan and Amy have sex in the bath tub, X learns from the local television news program that the store owner's wife disemboweled her children with a machete before taking her own life, thus, he concedes, removing any possibility of the trio being caught by the police. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... This article primarily discusses philosophical ideologies in relation to the subject of romantic love. ... James Duval (born September 10, 1972) is an American actor, probably most famous for his roles in Donnie Darko as Frank and as Singh in Go. ... Rose Arianna McGowan (born September 5, 1973[1]) is an American actress best known for her role as Paige Matthews in The WB television series Charmed and the cult-classic The Doom Generation. ... Johnathon Schaech (born September 10, 1969 in Edgewood, Maryland) is an American actor, writer, director and producer. ... This article or section seems to contain too many examples (or of a poor quality) for an encyclopedia entry. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Dustin Nguyen Dustin Nguyen (born Nguyen Xuan Tri on September 17, 1962, in Saigon, South Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American actor. ... It has been suggested that Duration of sexual intercourse be merged into this article or section. ... A bathtub A bathtub (or simply bath) is a plumbing fixture used for bathing. ... Television news refers to the practice of disseminating current events via the medium of television. ... A murder suicide is an act in which an individual kills one or more other persons immediately before, or while killing himself. ...

Later that evening, Amy has sex with X, even though she and X do not get along. Eventually Jordan finds out, and things become tense as the two men develop a lingering sexual attraction for one another. As the trio journeys across small town USA, they continue to get into violent situations due to people either claiming to be Amy's previous lovers or mistaking her for such.

Jordan, Amy and X spend the night in an abandoned barn, where they engage in a threesome before going to sleep. Later in the evening, they are attacked by a trio of Neo-Nazis, who beat up X and then hold Jordan against his will, making him unable to take any sort of action as one of the Neo-Nazis ties up and rapes Amy. The group finally castrates Jordan with pruning shears. After Amy breaks free, she kills the Neo-Nazis with the shears and escapes with X, leaving Jordan for dead. The film ends with Amy and Xavier driving off aimlessly into the sunset while eating Doritos. For the 1994 film, see Threesome (film). ... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ... Castration (also referred as: gelding, neutering, orchiectomy, orchidectomy, and oophorectomy) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses the functions of the testes or a female loses the functions of the ovaries. ... Sheares are doubled-bladed cutting implements with straight blades of between 200mm and 300mm. ... Nacho Cheese Doritos Mexican Nacho Flavored Doritos, Israel (old style) Cool American Flavored Doritos found in Amsterdam. ...

Response

Because of the film's dark subject matter and approach to the material, The Doom Generation received mixed reviews, with critics often comparing the film both favorably and unfavorably to Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. Film website Rotten Tomatoes, which compiles reviews from a wide range of critics, gives the film a score of 50%.^[1] William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946), known simply as Oliver Stone, is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. ... For the song, see Natural Born Killaz. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

Trivia

• The film features cameos from a number of celebrities including Parker Posey, Heidi Fleiss, Christopher Knight (from "The Brady Bunch"), Margaret Cho, Perry Farrell, Amanda Bearse and gay adult film stars Zak Spears and Rex Chandler.

• The gang of goons in the beginning of the movie is played by the Vancouver based industrial group, Skinny Puppy. cEvin Key, who falls off the car, broke his arm during the shooting of this scene.

• Jordan Ladd was originally cast as Amy Blue, but her mother, Cheryl Ladd, vetoed her playing the role at the last minute.

• Every time one of the characters buys something, the total comes to $6.66. The address of the first hotel they stay at is 666. Amy's combined SAT score is 666.

• Dan Gatto, from the band Babyland, did extra score-like music for the film.

• In all the publicity pictures for the film, Rose is wearing a bobbed black wig. The pictures were taken after the film was made, and her hair had since grown. Also, Johnathan's characters tattoo isn't in any publicity pictures (ex. Movie cover and soundtrack)

• Every time one of the characters uses the skull lighter, the flame is a different color; Blue when Jordan White lights it, White when Xavier Red lights it and Reddish Orange when Amy Blue lights it.

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See also

• Totally Fucked Up
• Nowhere

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References

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External link

• The Doom Generation at the Internet Movie Database