On This Day

Natural Born Killers released

August 26th 1994

12:45 26 August 2024

Oliver Stone's 'Natural Born Killers' was released in US theaters on this day in 1994. Starring Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as Mickey and Mallory Knox, a pair of young lovers who go on a cross-country killing spree, Stone's film is an ultra violent, hyper-stylized satire on celebrity culture and the American media's glorification of mass murder.

The movie opened to mixed reviews with some critics praising Oliver Stone for a work of breath-taking boldness and originality while others condemned it for being self-indulgent and overly violent. Nearly 30 years later, 'Natural Born Killers' remains as divisive as ever and having been made just before the rise of the internet and the explosion of social media, Oliver Stone's film now seems remarkably prophetic and as relevant as ever.