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The Reflecting Skin (1990)

Drama | 96 minutes
3,16 59 votes

Genre: Drama / Thriller

Duration: 96 minuten

Country: United Kingdom / Canada

Directed by: Philip Ridley

Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Jeremy Cooper and Lindsay Duncan

IMDb score: 6,7 (10.351)

Releasedate: 28 August 1990

The Reflecting Skin plot

"Sometimes terrible things happen quite naturally."

Convinced that his neighbor Dolphin (Duncan) is a vampire, eight-year-old Seth (Cooper) isn't happy about his brother Cameron (Mortensen) getting into a relationship with her.

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Onderhond

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I totally disagree.

Reminds me more of a German crime series in Tom Sawyer setting. After the fantastic acting of the children in Les Diables yesterday, this seems like a school play. Terrible to watch, not only the children by the way.

Add to that the ridiculously bombastic score, the silly dramatic story, and you have a pretty bad movie. Only that bit of mysticism manages to keep it interesting, but that too turns out to be a loose cannon. Lynch? No, really not.

Sloppy movie, with a nice shot here and there, but totally ruined by third-rate acting, bad pacing and terrible score. 1*

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MeteoraXV

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*sigh* I finished watching it today and I shouldn't have...just a typical snobbery cryptic-pretentious drama film with messy symbolism, an annoying brat and a bunch of homoerotic ugly boys who kidnap, rape and murder little boys. Very boring. I gave it a 0.5* yesterday and it will stay that way.

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Woland

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Powerful historical drama about growing up in rural America in the 1950s. It's not easy for young Seth. Besides, there's little to do: his mother is already a bit off, his father turns out to be in the closet, is suspected of murdering one of Seth's friends and then commits suicide, and then there's a rather strange English neighbor who (as the synopsis also says) Seth mistakes for a vampire. The whole film has a dreamy atmosphere, and that turns out (I read later) to be intentional—it's a British film that wants to create a kind of mythical, über-American setting, with endless cornfields, eccentrics, strange religious folk, and all of that from the perspective of a child. Idyllic in terms of setting, perhaps, but certainly not idyllic in terms of events. That atmosphere also makes the film a bit illogical at times, since Seth's point of view makes some people seem to behave rather strangely (the sheriff who claims his dead father is still killing people for example), including himself with his creepy fetus-Eben, or him keeping to himself that he witnessed both Kim and Dolphin's kidnappings, but for me it also worked to keep up the mysterious atmosphere. It's slow and despite the body count rather limited in terms of horror, but I still thought this was an unheimliche, nice film.

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