The Reflecting Skin1990
The Reflecting Skin (1990)
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Movie Info
Cast
as Seth Dove
as Cameron Dove
as Dolphin Blue

as Ruth
as Luke
as Joshua

as Sheriff Ticker

as Deputy

as Kim

as Eben

as Cassie

as Cadillac Driver

as Adam Blue

as Passenger

as Twin

as Twin

as 1st Woman

as 2nd Woman

as Old Man
Critic Reviews for The Reflecting Skin
All Critics (12) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (2)
Moves with dreamlike confidence through a culvert of hard realities that are unflinching and insufferable, sometimes to the point of personal discomfort.
The director shows off his technical skills and a sick humor.
Philip Ridley's acclaimed tale of childhood, vampires and the prairie is as beautiful and menacing as ever.
The Reflecting Skin is a strange, at times wonderful film, one that leaves more questions open than answers. Its palate and performances collide in ways that seem unique decades on.
When you name a character Dolphin Blue, saddle her with a dead husband she didn't know, which causes her to lose her mind, and suggest that she might be a 200 year-old vampire, you should probably suggest that she's more of a representational figure.
Too odd for its own good; too disturbing to dismiss.
Audience Reviews for The Reflecting Skin
An intresting film about the "nightmare of childhood." I could see a lot of people complaining about the seemingly random and creepy events of the film, but I think they are missing the point. The movie is shown through the eyes of a 9 year old boy who is going through several traumatizing expierences and nobody who he looks up to is able to explain what is going on in his life, so he is forced to create his own answers for why these things are happening to him. The film will leave you as confused as the boy is, but that is the point. Either way an excellent directorial debut from British playwright Phillip Ridley and several good performances from the actors (most notably a young Viggo Mortenson.) Recommended for fans of the bizarre,

Super Reviewer
A little boy in rural post-WWII America believes that his lonely widow neighbor is a vampire who is killing his friends and wants to kill his beloved older brother. A literary and ambiguous slice of Midwestern Gothic that teems with unresolved metaphors.

Super Reviewer
Goes with Powder and Static. Australian, offbeat, creepy.

Super Reviewer
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