POISON is the daring first feature film from director Todd Haynes and is a conceptually bold, stylistically audacious study of deviance, inspired by the works of Jean Genet.

Before the New York opening, the movie was called ‘repulsive’, ‘soft porn’ and ‘an affront to moral America’. It features three separate, but interrelated, stories, shot in three strikingly different styles and intercut in surprisingly successful ways.

HERO gives a mother’s odd account of her seven year old son’s disappearance after he has killed his father.

HORROR tells of a scientist who discovers the source of the sex drive but precipitates a frightening reaction.

HOMO, a prisoner falls in love with a fellow inmate and is drowned in obsession, fantasy and violence.