Natural Born Killers

Director: Oliver Stone

1994 / 119min / 35mm

Stone pulled out all the stops with this grisly gonzo road movie about a couple of psychotic thrill killers, Mickey and Mallory (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis), traveling across America and leaving a trail of bodies as they go, with Robert Downey Jr.’s buzzard-like tabloid journalist dutifully recording their atrocities for an audience of ghoulish couch potatoes and granting the couple celebrity status. Frenetic editing, jarring stylistic shifts, a psychedelic palette, and a dense soundtrack co-produced by Trent Reznor all combine to make Natural Born Killers a delirious, nauseating vision of the modern media-saturated hellscape.