Hated: GG Allin & the Murder Junkies (1993)

Documentary about notorious punk rock performer GG Allin.

Director:

Todd Phillips

Writer:

Todd Phillips (by)

Stars:

GG Allin, Merle Allin, Shireen Kadivar

1 win.

Cast

Credited cast:
GG Allin	...	Himself
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Merle Allin	...	Himself
Shireen Kadivar	...	Razor
Dee Dee Ramone	...	Himself
Geraldo Rivera	...	Himself (archive footage)
Unk	...	Himself

Storyline

Documentary about the life and death of the notorious underground punk icon GG Allin, the foul mouthed, heroin shooting lead singer of the Murder Junkies, who would throw excrement at the crowd, start fights with the biggest guys in the audience, and threatened to kill himself onstage. He was considered the lowest common denominator of our society by some, an avant-garde artist by others. He died of an overdose in the early 90's.

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Plot Keywords:

punk | excrement | punk rock | interview | live performance | 

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Taglines:

GG Allin, le dernier vrai punk

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Genres:

Documentary | Biography | Music

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1993 (USA)

Also Known As:

Hated: G.G. Allin and the Murder Junkies

Company Credits

Production Co:

Skinny Nervous Guy

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

GG Allin died of a heroin overdose during post-production. The filmmakers shot additional material on his death for inclusion in the film. A bonus feature on the region 1 DVD shows a still of Allin lying in his coffin. He is dressed in a jacket and jock strap.

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Connections

Features The Geraldo Rivera Show (1987)

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Soundtracks

"I Wanna Kill You"
(c) 1988 GG Allin & The Buldge

User Reviews

A Disturbing film about a disturbing man

GG Allin was easily one of the most unpleasant and untalented individuals in the annals of rock music. He was crude, violent and utterly insane. Seeing him live was more like seeing a side-show Geek than going to a show. He hurled feces, he assaulted the audience, he was usually beaten up or arrested before the show even started... yet, there will always be a certain part of me that will miss him.

GG was a force, a wild ride rather than an individual. He demonstrated a total lack of empathy for other human beings and I believe people who say that he probably would have been a serial killer if he had not become an 'artist.'

However, regardless of an of this, Todd Phillips documentary on the man is utterly brilliant. It passes no judgment on the man or his music, but documents a phenomenon. Phillips looks at GG with unflinching honesty and does not try to sugarcoat the reality of the disturbed individual who lashed out at the world around him.

If you have any interest in documentaries and how they SHOULD be done, look no farther than Hated, which is an honest and serious look at the psychopathology of one lone outsider.