Poison (1991)

Poison: Directed by Todd Haynes. With Edith Meeks, Millie White, Buck Smith, Anne Giotta. A boy shoots his father and flies out the window. A man falls in love with a fellow inmate in prison. A doctor accidentally ingests his experimental sex serum, wreaking havoc on the community.

“Todd Haynes first full-length film was a triptych of stories inspired not only by the novels of Jean Genet but also by the schlock-horror B-Movies of the fifties and sixties. Sex, primarily homosexuality, is the main theme and is presented both poetically and with a good deal of self-deprecating humor, (one tale, modeled on u0026quot;The Flyu0026quot;, is obviously about AIDS), and prefigures much of Haynes later work; u0026quot;Far from Heavenu0026quot; isnu0026#39;t far from the surface in the presentation of the story about a boy who kills his father and literally flies away. Itu0026#39;s certainly not commercial and was clearly aimed at a specific art-house audience but it marked a breakthrough both in Independent American Cinema and in LGBT cinema. It also marked Haynes out as a major talent and someone to watch.”