My first blog entry I will dedicate to the work of my favourite director, Gregg Araki. Especially his masterpiece, The Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy, consisting of the films:

Totally Fucked Up (1993)

The Doom Generation (1995)

Nowhere (1997)

All three films are gems and The Doom Generation might be the closest thing I get to having a favourite film. These films have it all: Beautiful cinematography, amazing 90s shoe gaze soundtrack, teenage angst, bisexual pissed off emos before emo was even a thing, Rose McGowan and of course aliens. Shannen Doherty even makes a brief cameo in which she gets obliterated by a laser gun. What’s not to like.

When I was a teenager suffocating in the Danish countryside, this is exactly how I wished my life looked like and had I somehow managed to find these films back then, I would have been hopelessly in love with all the characters in them.