page_title: Gregg Araki
section_title: Teen Apocalypse trilogy
hierarchical_section_title: Gregg Araki / Career / Teen Apocalypse trilogy
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Gregg Araki au 36ème Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville pour la présentation en Avant Première de son film KABOOM.
context_page_description: Gregg Araki is an American filmmaker. He is noted for his heavy involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement. His film Kaboom was the first winner of the Cannes Film Festival Queer Palm.
context_section_description: Araki's next three movies—Totally Fucked Up  (1993), The Doom Generation  (1995), and Nowhere (1997)—were collectively dubbed the "Teen Apocalypse trilogy". The trio has been characterized as "... teen alienation, hazy sexuality and aggression." A former student of his at UC Santa Barbara, Andrea Sperling, co-produced the films with him.
  The trilogy saw Araki work increasingly with more notable actors and actresses including Rose McGowan, Margaret Cho, Parker Posey, Guillermo Díaz, Ryan Phillippe, Heather Graham, and Mena Suvari among others.
  The trilogy received varying degrees of reviews, from a thumbs down and "zero stars" by Roger Ebert to "Literally the Best Thing Ever" by Rookie, and being heralded as cult classics.
caption: Araki at the Deauville American Film Festival in September 2010
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