The Reflecting Skin
“Sometimes terrible things happen quite naturally.”
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In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.
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A dreamlike, unsettling journey into a child's feverish imagination. The film evokes a palpable sense of unease and isolation, where the mundane horrors of rural life blend with supernatural dread. It's a haunting, atmospheric experience.
surrealdread-soakedmelancholiceerieslow-burnA24 arthousesurrealismSouthern Gothicatmospheric horrorchildhood innocencefear of the unknownrural decayloss of innocence
farmradiationwidowidahomurderrural areakillernuclearex soldier1950sreflectivechild abduction
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