Taking Tiger Mountain is a 1983 American science fiction film directed by Tom Huckabee and Kent Smith, and starring Bill Paxton in one of his earliest on-screen acting roles.

In 1973, Kent Smith wrote a poem about the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, which was loosely adapted as the initial script for Taking Tiger Mountain.

[3] A groundbreaking feature of this film is that it employs frontal female and male nudity and graphic sexual activity presented as entirely consensual and mutually pleasurable.

[3] In 2016, film restoration and distribution company Vinegar Syndrome contacted Huckabee with an offer to digitally remaster and release Taking Tiger Mountain on home video.

[2][3] Changes in this version include on-screen graphics having been replaced with digital text, the addition of computer-generated rain and lens flares, and a different ending that features color footage shot on an iPhone.

[8] In a retrospective assessment, Andrew Todd of Polygon referred to the film as being "about as coherent as you'd expect a movie built out of 60 minutes of silent footage to be, but it's designed to be watched emotionally or sensorially rather than narratively.

"[2] Conversely, Michael Hall of Texas Monthly wrote positively of the Revisited cut, calling it "a beautiful tangle of images and sound, with sinister, oscillating music [...] and a blanketing sense of doom.