Set in a 1950s-era American heartland of sprawling wheat fields and lonely old houses, The Reflecting Skin is British director Philip Ridley's fascinating and very strange investigation into the horrors of childhood innocence and fantasy. The film's mixture of gruesome subject matter, morbid sexual perversion, and disarming humor has spawned comparisons to the work of David Lynch, particularly Blue Velvet and the Twin Peaks series. Young Seth Dove (Jeremy Cooper) lives with his mother and father in a ramshackle farmhouse that also serves as the local gas station. After reading one of his father's pulp horror magazines, Seth convinces himself that Dolphin Blue (Lindsay Duncan), the attractive widow who lives nearby, is a vampire. When Seth's friend Eben is found dead (and sexually abused) in the family cistern, Seth is sure that Dolphin is to blame. The authorities, however, point to Seth's father, whose secret homosexuality -- and past affair with a young boy -- is a skeleton in the town's closet. Meanwhile, a roving gang prowls the country roads in a sleek, black Cadillac, and more children are found dead. Presented from a child's strangely warped point-of-view, this film should be appreciated by anyone looking for films far outside the mainstream.


STARS.........: Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper
DIRECTOR......: Philip Ridley
WRITERS.......: Philip Ridley
GENRE.........: Drama, Horror, Thriller
IMDB .........: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100469
RUNTIME.......: 1h 35mn
SIZE..........: 5.02 GB
VIDEO CODEC...: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.......: 7000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION....: 1920x1080
ASPECT RATIO..: 1.85:1
FRAMERATE.....: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1........: AAC 2.0 256kbps
AUDIO2........: Commentary with Philip Ridley
AUDIO3........: Isolated score by Nick Bicat
SUBTITLES.....: ENG, FRE
SOURCE........: Soda Pictures remastered Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE...: 2019-08-25


Extras

• Angels & Atom Bombs: The Making of The Reflecting Skin
• Dreaming Darkly
• Visiting Mr. Beak (1987)
• The Universe of Dermot Finn (1988)
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