Poison Page #4

Synopsis: Three intercut stories about outsiders, sex and violence. In "Hero," Richie, at age 7, kills his father and flies away. After the event, a documentary in cheesy lurid colors asks what Richie was like and what led up to the shooting. In the black and white "Horror," a scientist isolates the elixir of human sexuality, drinks it, and becomes a festering, contagious murderer; a female colleague who loves him tries to help, to her peril. In "Homo," a prisoner in Fontenal prison is drawn to an inmate whom he knew some years before, at Baton juvenile institute, and whose humiliations he witnessed. This story is told in dim light, except for the bright flashbacks.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Director(s): Todd Haynes
Production: Zeitgeist Films
  4 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
76%
R
Year:
1991
85 min
641 Views


He was smacking me around

and screaming his head off.

And of course,

it woke up Richie.

But Fred was like some crazy man,

and coming at me,

and he threw the lamp at me,

which knocked me down.

I just remember him coming at me.

around the throat

and me trying to hold his arms down

they were like steel.

Then I just thought:

This's it.

And then, all of a sudden

I heard an explosion,

like a bomb.

And then another.

And then Fred collapses

on the top of me.

I look up and I saw Richie

standing there with the gun.

I think he looked at me

and then somehow took off

towards the window.

I was pulling Fred

off of me

when I saw him there,

standing on the ledge.

I screamed,

I thought he was going to jump.

And all of a sudden, he did.

He just jumped off the

ledge and went up.

As if the wind had taken him,

'cos he was so light,

but it wasn't the wind,

he just took off.

It was so weird.

When I ran

and watched him

go up ...

He just flew up.

And I called to him

and he sort of tilted my way.

Before he...

kind of rolled out of sight.

My little boy.

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