The Reflecting Skin (film)

The Reflecting Skin is a 1990 BritishCanadian horror film written and directed by Philip Ridley and starring Jeremy Cooper, Viggo Mortensen and Lindsay Duncan. Described by its director as a mythical interpretation of childhood, the film weaves elements of vampirism, Surrealism, black comedy, and religious zealotry throughout its narrative about the perceptions and fantasies of an impressionable young boy in 1950s America. The film places the majority of its action outdoors around the dilapidated farms and in the wheat fields of Idaho shot in idyllic sunlight which belies the dark secrets of the characters and plot.

Seth retreats back to the small gas station where he lives with his harridan mother Ruth Sheila Moore and shy father Luke Duncan Fraser. Seths older brother, Cameron Viggo Mortensen, is away on military service in the Pacific Ruth refers to them as the pretty islands. Seth serves gas to a mysterious group of young men driving a black Cadillac, who promise to see him again soon and drive off.Seth is sent to Dolphins house to apologise for the frog prank. Dolphin is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, who hung himself for unknown reasons a week after their wedding. Surrounded by artifacts from her husbands familys whaling past, Seth takes some of her selfpitying remarks she claims to be two hundred years old literally, and after seeing the cover of a horror novel belonging to Luke, surmises that she must be a vampire. ........

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