The Doom Generation is a 1995 independent black comedy thriller film co-produced, co-edited, written and directed by Gregg Araki, and starring Rose McGowan, James Duval and Jonathan Schaech.

The plot follows two troubled teenage lovers who pick up an adolescent drifter and embark on a journey full of sex, violence, and convenience stores.

Teenage lovers Jordan White and Amy Blue pick up a handsome drifter named Xavier Red while driving home from a club.

X then learns from the local television news program that the store owner's wife disemboweled her children with a machete before committing suicide.

The film was initially acquired by The Samuel Goldwyn Company, but was dropped due to content objections, before being picked up by Trimark Pictures.

[6] This version released in cinemas around the US, starting April 6, 2023, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of Newfest's series "Queering the Canon: Totally Radical".

[8] The Doom Generation received mixed reviews, with critics often comparing the film both favorably and unfavorably to Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers.

[9] Giving the film its very first review, in Variety, Emanuel Levy noted: "Stylishly yet personally expressive, 'The Doom Generation' marks an innovative turning point in Araki's career.

"[11] Ricky da Conceição of Sound on Sight named the film the best of Araki's "Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy" and said it "represented a major artistic leap forward" for Araki, who "creates a twisted pastiche of science fiction, nihilistic road movie and teen angst filtered with deadpan comedy and his own unique commentary on the depravity of modern America."

He praised the set design, lighting, score and actress Rose McGowan, who "steals the show as the foul mouthed, morally aimless femme fatale on crystal meth and Diet Coke.