- HD 1080
- Runtime: 85m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Todd Haynes
- Stars: Edith Meeks, Millie White, Buck Smith, Anne Giotta, Lydia Lafleur
- keywords: prison, sexuality, punishment, love, murder, domestic abuse, scientist, lgbt, 1980s, hiv/aids epidemic
- Production_studio: Bronze Eye Productions
- providers: Kino Film Collection
- The Poison is featured in the top rankings of 1991
- #9 in Top Horror Movies of 1991
A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.