A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.
Direction
Haynes mashes up Genet, Cocteau, and trash TV in one debut.
Writing
Intertitles that read like whispered secrets and police reports.
Cinematography
Three distinct looks: soap opera, noir, and fever dream.
Director
Todd Haynes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Senator Jesse Helms held up this film to attack NEA funding, accidentally making it required queer cinema viewing.
Haynes shot each segment in different film stocks and aspect ratios to mimic their source genres—Hero as 1950s melodrama, Horror as 1970s exploitation, Homo as 1940s prison noir.
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