Doom Generation + Nowhere
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Run Time: 200 min.
Join us for a double feature of Gregg Araki’s The Doom Generation (1995) and Nowhere (1997)—a hallucinatory pairing of sex, violence, nihilism, teen alienation, and everything you’d want from a singular 90s queer punk film! These films are equal parts loud, hilarious, and devastating. Buckle up. It’s gonna get weird.
The Doom Generation (1995)
Starring Rose McGowan, James Duval, and Jonathan Schaech, this blood-soaked road movie follows teenage couple Amy Blue and Jordan White as they pick up the magnetic and possibly homicidal drifter Xavier Red. What starts as a sexy, snarky joyride descends into a surreal, ultraviolent spiral of absurdist violence, nihilism, and late-night convenience store hellscapes.
Nowhere (1997)
The final and most flamboyant entry in the Teen Apocalypse trilogy, Nowhere is a tangential day-in-the-life of queer and questioning teens in Los Angeles. Centered on the sweetly dazed Dark Smith (James Duval) and his yearning for love amid sex, drugs, alien abductions, cults, and lizard people, the film explodes into pure sensory overload.