12 Films You've Never Heard Of With 100% On Rotten Tomatoes

6. Totally F**cked Up (1993)

The Film: Independent filmmaker Gregg Araki is heralded as one of the founders of the New Queer Cinema movement of the early 1990s, and Totally F**cked Up was the first film in his so-called Teen Apocalypse trilogy, three movies were incredibly important to this indie subgenre. The opening film in the series is something of a pseudo-documentary that follows Andy (James Duvall) and five other homosexual adolescents living as a family unit in 90s Los Angeles as they struggle for acceptance in the face of complete alienation.

What The Rotten Tomatoes Critics Said: Araki managed to capture the vitality of his characters and the urgency of their desires in an a style described as scattershot yet effective. The director presented the film in 15 segments with no regard for linear story telling, with the titles of these segments ("Lifestyles of the Bored and Disenfranchised" and "To Live and Fry in L.A." being two examples) serving to sum up the subversive nature of the film, though British Rotten Tomatoes critic Geoff Andrew believes that beneath the nihilism there is a story we can all relate to:

"It's all very self-consciously cool, of course, but from this side of the Atlantic, you can forgive the film's endless posturing and tune in to its honest, sympathetic portrayal of late adolescence. Indeed, for all its rather obvious attitude, the film's conventional at heart: a soap for the slack generation, that'll strike a chord way outside the confines of the New Queer Cinema."